Posted on April 1st, 2009 by Shan
As a new Charter customer, I quickly became frustrated with Charter’s automatic search page. What happens is, if you type something like “google” into your browser’s URL bar, you get redirected to a Charter branded search page. This is extremely frustrating, and the best that Charter offers is an opt-out cookie that you have to [...]
Posted on March 28th, 2009 by Shan
Just a reminder that I’ll be presenting at the Madison Adobe User Group meeting on Tuesday. I’ll be presenting an intro to Flex/AIR/ColdFusion at American Family Insurance. Click the link for more info
http://groups.adobe.com/posts/b5381e2718
Sorry if you already read this on the Webapper blog 
Posted on March 23rd, 2009 by Shan
Just wanted to follow up. The Charter guys on twitter got in touch with me right away last Monday, and proceeded to solve my issues. They utilized the services of one of their network engineers to double-check the configurations on everything from my modem all the way up the chain to the local office. Somewhere [...]
Posted on March 15th, 2009 by Shan
Seduced by Charter’s upstream speeds (2 mbps with their 20 mbps service, and 5 mbps with their 60 mbps service), along with their better prices than AT&T’s slower DSL services, I finally caved. On Friday, a tech installed my 20 mbps service, and we were off to the races.
Earlier tonight, I was working with Dan [...]
Posted on March 11th, 2009 by Shan
I’ve written my first Facebook application, Job Connection. It allows you to use your Facebook friends network to look for a job by word of mouth. On the flip side, it lets you connect your friends with job openings that you know of.
So, go out, install it, and don’t forget to invite your friends. The [...]
Posted on January 22nd, 2009 by Shan
I had the need for a URL Validator for a Flex project, and couldn’t find one. So, here’s the code:
Posted on January 22nd, 2009 by Shan
I use Time Machine on my MacBooks as part of my backup plan. However, it backs up over the wireless network to an external USB drive on my Mac Pro, and occasionally there are problems. A couple times now, I’ve gotten an error where Time Machine says it cannot back up because the drive is read only. [...]
Posted on January 10th, 2009 by Shan
I’m happy to announce the immediate availibility of cf-flex-user-auth, a starter application for developers building Flex applications with ColdFusion on the backend. I’ve been working on this for a while now, and it’s gone through two complete rewrites.
The idea behind this is for developers to be able to download this source code, and have a [...]
Posted on October 31st, 2008 by Shan
I’m happy to report that three AS3 projects I’m involved in were added to the ActionScript Cloud APIs list. If you’ve worked on any API wrappers or whatnot, be sure to submit yours before MAX!
Posted on July 25th, 2008 by Shan
There was a bit of confusion among myself and my peers today, on how to take screenshots and prep them for print. The printer required 300dpi images, and screenshots are, usually, 72dpi.
There is no way to just “take” a higher resolution screenshot, you have to actually upscale the originals. This will work on the Mac [...]