Firefox doesn’t cache SSL requests between restarts

Tracking down quirky browser behavior ranks among the worst things you can spend your day on. Today was one of those days. After receiving complaints that our application wasn’t caching correctly, it was time to pull out the big guns.

Flash 9 for Linux Beta Coming Soon

Our current schedule for releasing the final version of Flash Player 9 for Linux is early 2007. Many readers have understandably requested a beta version before that time. It is coming…

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OpenOffice to be ‘true’ Mac application…

Until now the software has required that users install the X11 Window System, a graphical interface that lets Unix-based applications work on Macs. The new version of the software won’t require X11, and will work just like any other OS X-native application.

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OS X, Eclipse, as2ant Tutorial

Running MTASC, asdt and as2ant is a great way to alleviate Flash compile time limbo and truly leverage the benefit of working 100% in eclipse.

I had posted a previous article discussing getting asdt running in eclipse on Mac. After reading it again, its pretty long winded. This time around, I’ll focus on the task at hand – using as2ant in eclipse, specifically on the Mac OS-X platform.

Save Granny!!

http://www.savegranny.org/

After looking at that site and the hub of Firefox marketing, SpreadFirefox, it makes you realize web marketing 2.0 is *working*.

“Spaces” makes Apple’s 30″ Cinema display

After my initial exposure Apple’s 30″ Cinema display, the only drawback I could come up with was figuring out how to organize all of that space.

I started exploring how an ideal window manager/space partitioning program might work with so many pixels. That effort quickly flamed out after I caught Apple’s vision of desktop management, aptly named “Spaces” -

http://www.apple.com/macosx/leopard/spaces.html

So now I play the waiting game, saving that extra house payment so I can blow it all on the 30″ Cinema display + Leopard when it ships in 2007.

OS-X + Flash + RAM disk != performance increase

Anybody who has been involved with large Flash projects immediately recognizes the value of performance tricks that descrease compile time limbo. My current project gets a speed bump by using MTASC + as2ant for compiling actionscript. Unfortunately the asset library still requires a Flash compilation step which is now on the order of 1-2 minutes on a Macbook Pro 2.16ghz with the 7200RPM drive.

Awhile back, my buddy Matthew mentioned that mounting a RAM disk may help speed up Flash compiles. Fast forward two months and we’re busy doing a branded interface for a very large and very important business partner. The asset library and its painfully slow compilation has become a bottleneck in development cycle.

Resolution independence in Leopard

“What resolution independence is and what it means for user interface designers.”

Funny – my business partner Matthew was just talking about this in a completely different context. We were discussing which fonts were appropriate for our lateset software product and Matthew made the comment

“The problem here is that display resolution *still* sucks. We should be able to run 300dpi screens by now”.

Looks like Apple sees the future the same way.

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Digg Dugg Buried

Ok, like the rest of the internet I dig digg. However, is it me, or has digg finally been dugg so many times that its relevancy is collapsing under its own weight?

Articles posted on digg are seemingly old news. I have digg on my rss agreggator and its constantly pumping me with new articles to check out. One problem – these articles are not new! Initially, I was inclined to do my part in the digg community by burying or marking said articles as duplicates. But after awhile, casting my digg votes just becomes another job that I don’t get paid for. Plus, I’d like to avoid being associated with the negative energy goblins that seem to live for lame/duplicate posts so they can fire up their flamethrowers.

So, this post lacks scientific evidence. I just want digg to stay diggable rather than something I want to bury all the time.

Quick Review of New Apple Toys

I have to post this before it becomes a week old. Last Friday, Diane received shipment on 2 Mac Pros and… wait for it… the 30″ cinema display.