A lovely little framework called Swiz

A few days ago I stumbled upon Swiz, which bills itself as the "brutally simple micro-architecture for Rich Internet Application development with Adobe Flex." If the term micro-architecture or the buzzword Rich Internet Application haven't scared you off yet, read on, because it really is a lovely little framework. Swiz is a lightweight framework for Flex [...]

Qik into Wordpress, first attempt.

I love the immediacy of Qik for recording short videos and yet I don't want my Qik videos to reside separately from my blog. In my initial attempt, I decided to integrate the two by putting a video player in the sidebar of my WordPress blog, consuming the Qik RSS feed for my videos, and [...]

A new look for 2009

Lest you jump to conclusions from the title, no, I haven't had botox. My beloved blog, however, did just get a facelift (she's a little sore but recovering nicely!) It's time to say hello to a new iteration of my little corner of cyberspace in preparation for 2009. Video is definitely a more central element, as [...]

Yahoo! Pipes breaks for Flash if you customize your pipe URLs

I love Yahoo! Pipes. It has saved my butt on several occasions when I've needed to transform feeds. However, I think I broke it (for myself, at least) by customizing the URL for my pipes. When you do that, you lose the ability to refer to your pipes using the yahooapis.com domain and thus you cannot [...]

<head> moo stickers at FOTB

Don't forget to ask me for <head> moo stickers when you see me at FOTB this week! Not at FOTB? You can order your own in just two clicks thanks to the magic of the moo API (Oh yeah, and the $99 <head> early-bird discount ends in just two days so get your ticket if [...]