http://timwalling.com/bauerkills/

Which time of day is Jack’s deadliest? When is it safe to be around Jack Bauer? See for yourself:

http://timwalling.com/bauerkills/

This hardware/home goods store has almost every product imaginable. I thought I almost had them stumped yesterday when I went in looking for a plastic/zip garment bag. I was looking around the home goods section, where the hanger were, didn’t see anything and finally asked. “Upstairs, over to the left.” Hmmm, you win today Dickson Brothers.

This is by no means a big store either. It’s only 2 small floors but seems to fit an entire Home Depot’s worth of stuff into the limited space. They offer some 2×4’s, paint, hardware, home appliances, bakeware, make copies of keys, the list goes on.

They don’t make stores like this anymore. Just wait until I come in looking for a replacement top for a 1985 Michael Graves tea kettle. Wait, I think I saw one of those upfront…

Deep linking within a Flash application of any kind has always been a challenge on projects for me personally. Mainly because the requirement was throw in after most of the application was already built. One of the great things about UrlKit is that not only does it offer an easy to use framework but I think it would also be very easy to add to an existing Flex application.

I encourage people to try out the sample application. I’m going to post some sample code in the coming weeks, going over some simple examples. There’s very little code to implement and it basically consists of setting up some rule sets where parts of the URL in the browser are dispatched to the various parts of the flex application that care. Based on the values of the URL you can decide to do whatever you want. Bind it to the state of a view component, pre-populate input fields, etc.

UrlKit – http://joeberkovitz.com/blog/urlkit

I’m the oldest of 4 and the youngest, Matt, is still back in upstate NY. I love Boston, but I do feel like I miss out on a lot of things back home. Matt was born with severe hearing loss and has also had a whole host of health related issues growing up, all mainly due to the fact that he was born a few months premature. Despite all of this he’s one of the most positive people I know and a great person to be around.

He’s also a huge sports fan, specifically of the Mets and Giants, so about a year ago I started up a site for him and encouraged him to start writing. He says that he’d like to eventually become a sports writer so hopefully when he wins some sports writer award down the road he’ll give a shout out to his big brother.

David Seah had a nice writeup on his experience teaching a class where he was forced to produce something on a daily basis. Basically he was forced to be productive because he simply had to get it done. I figured by forcing myself to write a little everyday I’d stop wondering about a good topic to write up and just simply write.

And no, I’m not counting this as today’s required post.

I tried upgrading and the upgrade script didn’t run as smoothly as it was supposed to. I have backups though so I’ll be posting the important entries when I get time. I’ll be leaving the lame posts in the trash, I figure new year, chance to start over again.