Software, Fitness, and Gaming – Jesse Warden

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  • XML to UI Examples

    Sharon Selden from Macromedia was responding to our increased interest in using XUL, an XML language used to create forms. There are some tag definitions on the net, but it was nice to get documentation and examples from the source. Additionally, she posted some XUL to UI examples, but the list didn’t allow attachments, so I’m hosting them for da group.

    …however, there were a few of us that had tried to use JSAPI with them, and met with little success in actually having JavaScript ‘esque control like you do in HTML pages. I had managed to populate some controls, but the jsfl runs in a scope that is different from your document, so there’s really no way to get data back from the XUL form… at least that I found. Muzak posted this link, but I haven’t had time to read the whole thing to see if it solves the whole thing. Hopefully I can find my answers in da zip I just uploaded. Regardless, XUL is sooo much frikin’ easier than a Flash panel… until you want to populate controls. We’ll see.

    Muzak’s link to a good XUL reference

    Sharon’s post of XML to UI Tags via LiveDocs

    Sharon’s XUL to UI Examples

    XML to UI Examples – ZIP

  • Flex Writing Opp

    Anyone who is capable interested in writing a book on Flex covering any/some of the following topics?

    – Flex in JSP environs
    – Flex apps created with IBM WebSphere
    – Accessibility Best Practices
    – creating apps
    – using Flex overall
    – extending with Flash
    – app development (more advanced than creating apps)

    If interested, or know someone who may be qualified, please email me/forward them my email, thanks!

    jesterxl@jessewarden.com

  • I’ve seen a quarter of a century, Camel Spider, & Good Parking Job

    I appear to be 25.

    This appears to make me look under my desk all day. (From someone stationed in Baghdad. He was recently bitten by a camel spider which was hiding in his sleeping bag. I thought you’d like to see what a camel spider looks like. It’ll give you a better idea of what our troops are dealing with. Enclosed is a picture of his friend holding up two spiders.)

    This appears to do little to dissuade the fear caused via the above.

    This appears to be an awesome parking job.

  • Bounty Hunter: Hunt for the Dark Jedi

    Star Wars Galaxies Amatuer Video (WMV) – Forum | Direct Link
    Direct Link Mirror

    I feel like I’m pulling a JD because I am not sure what to take away from this. On the one hand, I think it’s fantastic, and I saw a lot of the game (sound effects, animations, motions, etc.), and these guys got it all perfect. On the other, these guys obviously are expressing frustrations with the games quirks, but I’m thinking that’s what makes it fun in exploiting those in humor.

    Interesting to note, if I had lived next to these guys, I’d probably have helped. Score for the internet to give something like this exposure so people from all over can view such a great piece of entertainment.