http://www.jacksongabbard.com/blog Web design, web development, code, and life. Thu, 10 Jul 2008 05:40:14 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en After two days of using Aptana for the HTML+CSS+JavaScript on my current project, I really can't help but sing its praises. For anyone who knows their way around any of those initialed technologies above, Aptana is a 100% Dreamweaver replacement. No contest. Just case you were wondering, I can think ten ... http://www.jacksongabbard.com/blog/2008/07/09/10-reasons-i-love-aptana-studio/ Revisited :: June 26, 2008 If you read below, you can get a sense of what happened with BustedTees.com and I. The short and sweet is that they erred sending a shirt to a close friend of mine and expected me to pay the shipping to get the shirt returned so ... http://www.jacksongabbard.com/blog/2008/06/11/bustedteescom-is-a-rip-off/ Listening to the radio, driving, taking a shower, lying in bed moments before sleep, chatting with any anonymous person about anything pertinent to life. The key to this very unordered list is the category "places where ideas can strike you." I chatted briefly with a woman who sets up and maintains ... http://www.jacksongabbard.com/blog/2008/04/18/fire-mind-bullets-when-you-least-expect-it/ Working on a large Papervision3D project, I had begun to notice a constant increase in RAM usage as the Scene was running. This particular scene does a lot of updating of BitmapMaterials and Planes, responding to user input by transforming a thumbnail plane into a larger full view plane. The ... http://www.jacksongabbard.com/blog/2008/04/16/papervision3d-15-material-caused-memory-leak/ As one of the many people who work on Music Row who feel it's a good idea to get out of the office for lunch once in a while, I often find it hard to find a place that other people haven't found as well. Since I'm not ... http://www.jacksongabbard.com/blog/2008/03/27/having-fish-and-chips-and-dan-mcguiness/ As a replacement to my slowly dying MX3000 keyboard set that has served me nobly for close to a year and a half, I picked up the MX5500 Revolution kit this evening. I don't know if Logitech is one of those evil companies that engages in planned obsolescence or if ... http://www.jacksongabbard.com/blog/2008/03/24/review-logitech-mx-5500-revolution-cordless-desktop/ While looking around for a way to better manage the way I've been jockeying files between development machines, I found this Allway Sync, http://allwaysync.com/. Attracted initially to its small file size (only 3.8 megabytes), I was also happy to see that it was free software as well. It has an ... http://www.jacksongabbard.com/blog/2008/03/17/review-allway-sync/ The 8 GB model shown here marks Corsair's new line of ultra-durable flash storage drives. Generally the drives come with lots of stickers, but I'm of the mind that if the device looks good without embellishment, one should let it be what it is. While the 16 GB and 32 GB ... http://www.jacksongabbard.com/blog/2008/03/07/brief-review-corsair-survivor-8-gb/ For those out there who will stumble around as I did for a solution to apparently missing items in the code hinting context menus inside the Flash ActionScript editor, the answer is as you probably suspected--something simple. If, for instance, you try to import a sub-package of the flash package ... http://www.jacksongabbard.com/blog/2008/03/07/adobe-flash-cs3-actionscript-file-code-hints-and-context-menus/ How much more blunt could I be about it? Nothing shakes a person's confidence like being on the seventieth screen of a web application where some of your most sensitive personal information has been entered and seeing that you can't agree to the terms and conditions because the classic ASP ... http://www.jacksongabbard.com/blog/2008/01/18/insurance-companies-have-bad-web-applications/