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So I'm not saying every politician thinks this way.. but it is how a good number of us feel when it comes to politics. We elect representatives into office.. and support them and what do they do to us? :)

Passed onto me and I quite like this so I thought I'd share it.

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I asked God to take away my pride. And God said “No”.
He said it was not for Him to take away, but for me to give up.

I asked God to make my handicapped child whole. And God said “No”.
He said her spirit was whole, her body was only temporary.

I asked God to grant me patience. And God said “No”.
He said patience is a by-product of tribulations. It isn’t granted, it is earned.

I asked God to give me happiness. And God said “No”.

Can this be true?
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/05/27/ballmer_wwdc/

Insane as it may seem, it looks to be true. Apple and Microsoft are getting in bed together and allowing VS to output OSX and iPhone apps. It seems like it should be a conflict to the recently updated iPhone SDK license. I guess the caveat is that Microsoft will use Apples framework for the apps whereas Adobe wanted to use their own.

So you go to a car dealership.. they show you two nice trucks. They fit about the same number of people in them. They can haul about the same amount of weight.

Truck #1 has two different hitches. Where Truck #2 has five different hitches. Truck #2 has only one of the hitches truck #1 has .. but truck #2 has 4 hitches truck #1 doesn't have.

Truck #1 only runs on Orange and Prune Juice.

Truck #2 can run on any kind of juice.. but the popular ones are: Apple, Orange, Grape and Prune.

If truck #1 is 4 times the price as truck #2 which would you buy?

Translation:
FMS is truck #1

So I've been a huge pureMVC advocate for quite some time. It's been great on large projects and scales well. It is also very well tuned for large group development.

One large issue I have had with pureMVC in a word.. boiler plate code.. ok that was 3 words.

At any rate.. it took a while to set up a project and get it off and running. Adding new sections could also take a minute to setup. But once it was setup it worked like a champ.

So I ran across an issue today after updating a server. We updated from Ubuntu 8.04 LTS to Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. We make curl calls into the server via ssl. Well after the update I got this fun error: "curl: (35) Unknown SSL protocol error in connection" .. after some googling around it turns out that curl tries to use sslv2 by default. When I force curl to use sslv3 it works fine. So a call that works might look like this:

curl -3 https://myserver.com/someservice

I did try to use the -k (insecure) option but that didn't help.

Adobe released Flash Builder 4.. and it's a great tool to be sure. For some developers it's either not worth the cost or they don't want to spend the money.. or don't have the money.

Flash Builder will give you full code hints for built in Adobe classes as well as custom classes. It offers a nice way to debug applications with the debugger and includes a way to profile your applications.

So I got a wild hair today and decided to polish up an old test and post it here. Essentially you can put in your application url and set the connection rate speed and connection cap.

You'll get a simple count of success and failures. As it's running or after it's done you can add more connections to use via the add button.

I had been searching around for days for a solution to a problem many encounter. According to many blogs online the computeSpectrum method of the SoundMixer class only works with a vod stream from Flash Media Server, Wowza Media Server, or Red5. On a few of these blogs folkes even went as far as to try to code custom java classes to inject that data into the stream flowing to the flash player.

I didn't find this myself.. but was sent on a list I'm on.. I think it's pretty funny to those geeky enough to understand all of it's idiosyncrasies.

What's funny about it is that I think some people actually have followed this.. and then I get asked to maintain it. :)

http://freeworld.thc.org/root/phun/unmaintain.html
check it out.