Being a Mac user, I’m unable to work with anything that doesn’t have eye candy, even my terminal. So, I knocked together a quick bash function to prettify my terminal a little. It probably works in any bash or bash like environment with git installed:

This is an extended reply to a question:

I was shocked to see the following listed as a negative against the
Playbook: ‘Supports Flash’.

[…]

Does Flash deserve the criticism it’s getting at the moment and what can Adobe
do to rectify the situation?

Out of curiosity, I ran the HTML5 particle thing I hacked together on a few browsers, and the rough order of performance was:

I have finally forced myself to fiddle a little with the canvas element that’s part of the HTML5 spec. It has some pretty groovy facilities, but I’m still playing around getting a feel for what it can do well and what it does badly. So far, it seems reasonable at primitive writing operations, easily handling 6,000 opaque filled rectangle draws at 30 frames per second:

• http://wip.noiseandheat.com/html5_particles/

Fact o’ the day. Google’s first ever tweet was:

I’m
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01101110 01100111 00100000 01101100 01110101
01100011 01101011 01111001 00001010

Well, what a pleasant hiatus that was. Almost 3 months. However, no more! I shall get back to blogging random useless technical details about various things. I know you missed me really.

The CompactFlash association has just released a new specification for future CompactFlash cards. It involves big numbers. 144 petabytes big, to be specific. But how big is that really?

Just a quick tip if you are having problems with Eclipse, FDT or other Eclipse based tool and writing to dot files cloned from a git repository.

Pop quiz time!

What appears on stage with the following code:

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public function newChild() :void
{
  addChild(new CircleSprite()).x += 50;
}

Ok, in order to avoid any real coding at the weekend, I set about messing with the colours and settings within FlashBuilder 4 to turn it into something a little less searing on the eyeballs. These are the results: