Update: OK, so everyone's caught up on the EPIC FAIL title (hey, it got your attention!) so I've changed it — I retract my original statement: it's not an EPIC FAIL, heck, it's probably not even a FAIL. However, it's definitely a FOL, so let's move on to address the real issue here which is [...]

Just ran into this gotcha while trying to apply a Resize transition for my AIR WindowedApplication in Flex 4 (Gumbo) using states. It appears — at least in my app — that simply setting the width.stateName and height.stateName doesn't work: it causes the animation to jump. Instead, I found that I also had to set [...]

I just whipped up an AIR app that should make it easier for people who don't have a Turkish keyboard but need to occasionally type in Turkish to use Turkish characters. Yes, it's a niche app The reason I made it? In 140 characters from earlier tonight: Emailed my mom in Turkish & apparently [...]

I just moved and had my phone line activated by BT today. Of course, my first reaction was to pull up the Be web site to order broadband service. Unfortunately, I got a message telling me that my new number was not in BT's database and that it could take up to 48hrs for it [...]

Core Data manages all the grubby details of data persistence and abstracts away the actual data layer (whether it's SQL and its object-relational impedance mismatch baggage or XML and the joy of serialization/de-serialization/rinse/repeat) for you. Actually, it does much more than that, such as handling undo/redo. One area that I've been finding Core Data somewhat lacking [...]