OK, I couldn't help it. There's so much tabloid journalism going on in our industry these days that it's probably not long before we actually start seeing such titles....

First Rate's COO, Kevin Francis, just contacted me about the blog spam I received recently from their company: It recently came to my attention that a First Rate...

I'm honored and humbled every time I look through the list of stellar speakers we have confirmed to present at the Singularity web conference. As such, I want to take a...

Google released version 1.0.2 of the Google App Engine SDK two days ago. If you're using Google App Engine, you should definitely upgrade. You can find a list of fixed...

If you download development tools you will probably have come across SHA1 or MD5 signatures for downloads in the past. It's very easy to test the download to make sure...

I hate blog spammers. Unfortunately, you normally don't know who exactly is responsible for blog spam and so there's usually very little you can do about it beyond...

In the last few years, I've been making a very conscious effort to attend and speak at a variety of conferences both within the Flash world and in the greater world of...

I love trying new things with Moo cards whenever I run out of a batch. This time around, I thought it would be fun to take one large image and break it up into a...

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...

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....

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...

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...

In version 1.53, you can now add a photo to your profile at The GAE SWF Project Flex sample (and see other user's profiles). It was a bitch to get FileReference working...

The SWF format is now totally open. Rejoice! This is big: Adobe is removing restrictions on the use of the SWF and FLV/F4V specifications as part of their new Open...

Oh my, I just realized that while I was on the phone to my friend Gilles, I ASCII art doodled in TextMate! \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ / / \...

Shell scripts are very useful little things. Google App Engine makes deploying apps a single-line affair, but I was still finding myself going through a series of steps...

I've moved the common base classes for the framework to the actionscript folder in the root of the project. Add this folder to your class path in both Flash and Flex...

Update: As of 2.30pm (when I last checked), the app appears to be working again. I've made no changes whatsoever. If you hit the Flash or Flex client on The GAE SWF...

I just released version 1.33 of The GAE SWF Project and, as tradition would have it, need to head to bed in the next few minutes lest I should expire. The updates in a...

How cool, I just heard from Brajeshwar on Twitter that The GAE SWF Project is currently the featured application on the Google App Engine Application Gallery. I released...