The open source Flash Commodore 64 emulator project lead by Darron Schall and Claus Wahlers was mentioned on Digg this week. I finally got the chance to play with the latest version and it's amazing how much progress they've made in such a little time. From its AS3-only beginnings they now have a fully-blown Flex application that wraps the emulator with menu options, games, etc. None of which was there, what? Last week? Amazing stuff.

... it's an O'Reilly Service Mark!

How wonderful to finally have a succinct definition of this term :P

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I was on a panel at Adobe Live this week, discussing "The future of the Internet as an application platform." Ben Watson from Adobe moderated the event and my co-panelists were Andrew Shorten (Adobe Flex Application Engineer), Bola Rotibi (Ovum, Analyst), James Governor (RedMonk, Analyst) and Andy Hood - (AKQA, Creative Development Director).

The topic was a wide one and we decided (conspired? :P) with the other panelists to let the audience lead us with their questions. It was an attempt to gauge the topics that the community thought were important and hopefully address them (or at least spark some lively debate!) It ended up being a lighthearted evening in which the O'Reilly Service Mark, Web 2.0 (don't sue me O'Reilly) was brandied about like fishnet stockings at a Rocky Horror Show convention.

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... is apparently not possible if you're running Apache 2.2. So say my fallen hair and this forum discussion. Unfortunately, that's the version of Apache that the latest XAMPP comes with. (XAMPP is an excellent one-click LAMP++ installer for Windows.)

So what is a poor geek to do?

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What the title says! Check it out: http://svn1clicksetup.tigris.org/