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Installing Flex 3 Issues

Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

After installing Flex 3 form Flex 3 Beta 3 I had lots of issues with keyboard short cuts. I found that some hidden files from the beta were still on my system in ~/Documents/Flex Builder. I was able to solve all issues by changing the name on that directory and reinstalling Flex.

If your having issues and had Flex Beta installed check out these instructions from adobe. The worked for me when upgrading from Beta 2 to Beta 3.

OS X 10.5 Virtual Host and PHP

Tuesday, January 29th, 2008

I found instructions for editing the host file and enabling PHP at 456bereastreet.com.

What is a host file? Lets say your editing website locally and would like to bypass any security errors caused by the localhost url. You can use the host file to redirect the real url "www.jonathanspooner.com" to point at your local copy.

I also added a short cut to my profile document so I can just type 'host' in terminal and TextMate will open the doc.
To do this create a file named .profile in your users directory "/Users/yourusername/" and bash script like the one below. I have a few other handy shortcuts in there too.

alias host="mate /private/etc/hosts"

TED Talks

Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008

TED | Talks | Blaise Aguera y Arcas: Jaw-dropping Photosynth demo (video)

Google Search Mistakes Shaun White for Rocky Dennis

Thursday, November 22nd, 2007

When you search for Rocky Dennis a boy with craniodiaphyseal dysplasia disfiguration you get a picture of professional snowboarder Shawn White. The resemblance between the photos is strange. Google must have matched up the red hair.


Shawn White and Rocky Dennis
Google search for Rocky Dennis.

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Google Android is a software stack for mobile devices.

Monday, November 12th, 2007

Okay there is no gPhone rather an operating system called Android.
Check out the video below. If the video doesn't spark any ideas maybe the 10 million dollars the Big G is putting up for the best applications built.