Aral Balkan

You wanna piece of me?

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 hundred small cards to create a Moo card mosaic. I started with a lovely photo of mysel

Posted: May. 6, 2008 06:50 AM

Google App Engine hackathon at XTech?

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 th

Posted: May. 5, 2008 05:04 AM

Pistach.io entering beta testing

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 Flas

Posted: May. 3, 2008 08:30 AM

Enabling incompatible extensions with FireFox 3 Beta 5

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

Posted: May. 3, 2008 07:46 AM

Accessibility and Flex: we can do better.

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 S

Posted: May. 3, 2008 07:24 AM

Picture this!

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 as I wanted it to (look ma, no sessions!), but it was well worth the effort. The

Posted: May. 2, 2008 05:26 AM

Big news: Flash goes completely open!

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 Screen Project 2008. When Mark Doherty emailed me to tell me about his post on Adobe

Posted: May. 1, 2008 05:57 AM

ASCII Art Doodle

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

Posted: Apr. 28, 2008 12:11 PM

Shell scripting for fun and profit

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 when deploying updates to The GAE SWF Project, mostly because I wanted to release

Posted: Apr. 27, 2008 05:04 PM

Alternativa3D

Wow!

Posted: Apr. 26, 2008 07:00 PM

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