Flaming Mongrel

Stay out of my phone

Mr, Mrs and Ms Marketer, listen up. Let me tell you now, plainly and simply: If you ever ring my phone, or send me an SMS, with any kind of sales message, you and I will never do business. Ever.

Talkin’ about Shoes

For reasons both complex and stupid, I recently composed a few paragraphs for the ever charming legal-eagle @gabfran on the subject of footwear. Check it out at http://lawandshoes.wordpress.com/2010/03/05/guest-shoe-blog-post-by-gilfer-the-wedding-shoes/. My humble thanks also to the anonymous twitter friend who found some very kind words to say about me by way of an introduction. You know who [...]

Flash CS5 Will Be Able to Create iPhone Apps

’nuff said, really. With Flash CS5, ActionScript programmers will be able to create native iPhone applications and sell them on Apple iStore. I got chills.

OSX Terminal – Drag and Drop

Here’s the thing: When using the terminal in OSX, you don’t need to type in the full path to a file you want to manipulate. You can drag the file into the terminal window from the finder, and OSX will insert the full path for you.

XML Node Name – AS3 Gotcha

It turns out that the name() method of the XML class in AS3 returns an object not, as I was assuming, a String.

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    I curse up a storm on Twitter and have been known, on occasion to mix martinis in my mouth.

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