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For those of you who haven’t heard Google has released a new browser Chrome.

Although the browser is yet to reach it’s full potential and is currently only offered on a Windows platform it has some valued benefits.  One can have a look at an interesting comic about the utility but the main gist is that the application tackles the problem of memory leaks that are evidently present in FF & IE.

I’d like to say that I am an all rounder levl 3 log(n) programmer but I am not 100%.  Having worked for over a year now in the business world I come to miss those little midnight session in the computer lab.

In either case I am determined to get better familiarized with the things that I’ve forgotten.

It is about time someone in Adobe stood up and fixed the oldest disadvantage in Flash.  Finally, Google and Yahoo caches will be able to adequately parse the contents of SWF Flash files and retrieving text values from graphically advanced objects. 

Developers such as my self who are boggled by Flash capabilities and at the same time annoyed by the disadvantages of setting up a highly functional webpage only to face the inevitability of fighting browsers and client settings were forced to find other means of providing the infamous crawlers with the content that could not be retrieved from the compiled Flash executable. 

Here are some facts that one might find interesting:

1.       The new improvement can be applied to every version of the SWF format.  [Both old and new].

2.       Developers do not need to modify their existent project to make the content more searchable, the information will be available at the get go.

3.       Google has already began the rollout process of the new searchable SWF capability.

4.       At the moment the searching capabilities only affects the text base interior of the SWF file.  Currently there is no logic that focuses on the graphical [images] aspect of the infrastructure. 

Overall the new changes spell faster, better search results when it comes to working with flash.  The long despised draw back can finally be forgotten and a new age of vibrant high dimensional applications is waiting to make their mark on the web.

I was using Adobe Flex Builder 3 [AF3] for a few weeks now. I like what has been done with the application, the new functionality is very useful and there is a ton of new options that can be configured while designing your applications. Unforchunately similarly to it’s predecessor there are major bugs in AF3. A week ago for no apparent reason the application stopped working. Every time ran the application it threw a short dump before initializing the EDI.

I’ve tried reinstalling the application and even removed the old versions of JRE references. Nothing helped and just as before I had to rely to googling and looking at configuration files.

The problem lied in the small FlexBuilder.ini file located in the root installation directory. The contents of the file included the following settings:

-vmargs
-Xms128m
-Xmx512m
-XX:MaxPermSize=256m
-XX:PermSize=64m
-Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true

I’ve modified the contents to exclude the last lines and vuala, the application went back to it’s usual state [sure I lost all my projects but its nice to have a working EDI once again].

There’s nothing strange about hearing rain drops hit an exterior of your car while you are driving. What was strange on my way back to Toronto late last night was that there wasn’t a single cloud in the sky and the drops were sticking to my wind shield.

The following were taken off of my front bumper earlier this morning:

A nasty feeling comes over me when I see these images. Couldn’t believed that this madness is possible. God help those who are planning to do camping this year!

A very interesting video feed about typical corporate Enterprise Service Buss. [An enterprise service bus (ESB) software architecture for middleware that provides fundamental services for more complex architectures.]

Clean your system with appropriate utilities insuring that those items that you delete stay deleted. Spend some time encrypting sensitive information with proper applications [there’s lots of literature out there about passwords and their importance, so pick something harder then your last name in reverse order].

Worst comes to worst your data will be copied/lost but inaccessible.

Another client, another design, another adventure.

www.two-become-one.org: Soon to be fully up and running a new wedding planner website is in the process of being created.

Having re-energized my motivation for being productive I went ahead and created a new template for my guest book section. The template features a slanted scrolling pane, although it looks cook and I would love to get it working I am a little concerned with the limitations of Adobe Flex 2.

Time will tell if I figure out something interesting.

Stay tunned and have a look.