I can't seem to access Adobe.com from any of our European locations.

Having difficulties over there?

Update 13:00: It's fixed. Probably some gophers knawing on the cables.

I picked up this book today, because I have a week of holiday and how else could I better spend it than learning a new language or internet technique?

I have downloaded and tried a few excerpts, but I think it's wiser to start from the ground.

Too bad Adobe Flex 3 - Training from the source isn't out yet, but I don't think starting with 3 instead of 2 is going to make much difference for now.

Excerpts can be found here: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/articles/tfs_excerpts.html

AI interactive is a Taiwan agency which offers high quality web projects, in the area of webdesign, databases and games.

This site is a somewhat difficult way of navigating (by clicking on the cd-shapes) but once you figure it out, it's a nice smooth creative way of showing your projects in an interactive manner.

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So I am working on a small app that should run a fixed javascript routine (a refresh of a page) every 60 seconds.

First off, make sure that you have the AirAliases.js loaded:

And then run this code through Javascript:

The second argument for air.Timer() is the number of times you want this timer to run. I run the code at the end of the "appLoad()" function, so it get's looped automatically.

The addEventListener is an listener that runs when the TIMER is finished, and it runs the "appLoad" function.

I'm a big fan of animated sites, especially if the company involved is a web-agency. Web agencies are the classic example of people creating for themselves, which is the biggest challenge to have.

Your own site has to be everything you want for your clients and demonstrate what your ability is.

Chilli did a good job: they posted two versions of their site, a Flash and a Flex version!

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Didn't know if anyone noticed, but the Coldfusion 8 code-hint in DW-CS3 suggests "talbe" as a parameter. :)

Hope that Adobe is watching, and they'll fix it. I'm quite dependant on code hints since I'm rather stupid.

My relation with my work is sometimes a bit of a love/hate-relationship. I love doing large projects on my own, since I can really design a project like I want to and use all my knowledge to the fullest. It's nice taking credit for something big and you just coded in a few days or so.

On the other hand, there is this way of working that makes me really tense, since there is the pressure of making the deadline by yourself and every obstacle that endangers the deadline has to be dealt with quickly and efficiently.

That's why I like to share my list of do's and dont's when you have to code singlehandedly. It's my reference card to make it through a project and come out smiling, happy and richer with knowledge.

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I've just added Finetune to my blog's side menu.

[REMOVED IT DUE TO IT BEING A HEAVY LOAD ON SOME VISITORS]

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Thanks to Ben Nadel's post of wednesday I'm just discovering jQuery 1.2 to the fullest. Check out his post, for an analogy to be used on the next men's poker evening.

This one I find really handy, the jQuery Cheat Sheet somebody posted on the web. Thanks, Adrien.

Jquery-Cheat-Sheet-1.1.4.pdf

Enjoy.

I've always been a big lover of typography. It's what makes a layout stand or fall in a lot of situations.

I've been using the previous Adobe Font Folio for a while, which kept me happy. This new version makes me even more happy with over 170 new fonts.

I just don't get Adobe marketing at times though: how could you convince people into buying $1600 upgrade-package when you just provide them a font list and not a presentation of old/new fonts! Doesn't make sense to me.

Well, here's what version 11 contains: http://www.adobe.com/products/fontfolio/pdfs/fontfolio11_font_list.pdf