I love trying new things with Moo cards whenever I run out of a batch.

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I'm heading over to Dublin in a few hours to present at XTech and I'm wondering if anyone wants to meet up informally to meet/talk/hack Google App Engine.

I've set up an event on Upcoming. Please add your thoughts + tell me if the time is good. I think we should hold it at the hotel where the event's taking place for convenience.

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Pistach.io is entering beta testing.

You've probably noticed the Pistach.io ad on my site for a little while now. Peter Elst was helping us alpha test the ad rotation. Seb's got his badge up as well and the other beta testers from the Pistach.io Flash Pack will be adding theirs shortly.

So what's Pistach.io and the Pistach.io Flash Pack? We're a group of highly regarded and influential Flashers who are banding together to monetize our web sites in an elegant way: With a single ad, prominently displayed across all of our web sites. (Read more about Pistach.io here.)

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I just upgraded to FireFox 3 Beta 5 and immediately felt the loss of FireBug. Although FireFox can't automatically locate an update for it, FireBug 1.1 works in Beta 5 so grab it now!

Also feeling the loss of my del.icio.us bookmarks, HTML Validator extension, and Alexa rating graph, I googled for a possible solution and came across this useful tip:

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By default, Flex Builder creates inaccessible SWF files.

Bad decision. This needs to change.

Enabling accessibility features for The GAE SWF Project resulted in an 8KB file size increase in the SWF file. I can live with that. Creating inaccessible SWF files to save a couple of KB is no savings at all.

The Flex accessibility overview page feels woefully outdated and mention Adobe Flash Player 7. We're on 9 now. Let's update these, guys!

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