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Pimp My Office

My birthday presents consisted of a new desk and a mini-fridge for my office at home. I relate it to that MTV show “Pimp My Ride”, where supposed less-fortunates have MTV sponsors take their piece of junk car (at least they have a frikin’ car…) and trick and pimp it out. To me, her majesty did a major difference to my office, so I consider it pretty pimp to where it was. Thanks!

BTW, thanks for all da happy b-day, gals n guys.

Old Mofo I had

New Desk

I knew I needed a bigger whiteboard… I need to learn to say ‘no’

Da Chicken n’ Beer Locker

Inside – I’m not a fruity boy, just out of Corona, I don’t even like Pink Lemonade…really

April 20, 2004
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

April 20, 2004
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

April 19, 2004
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.

April 19, 2004