Category Archives: General

“The Android Workshop” – introduction to native Android development

  Last Thursday and Friday I attended “The Android Workshop” at TechHub in London, lead by none other than Richard Leggett. I’ve experimented with native Android development before but was amazed at how many topics we managed to cover and in just a short period of time. It didn’t take long for me to start read more »

RIAJobs.org relaunched

If you’ve been using RIAJobs.org over the last month or so, you will probably have run into a number of issues. I have finally been able to get round to getting those sorted and am happy to say a new and improved version of the site is now online! Among other things, one of the read more »

Project Cocoon has a new office

Earlier today we went to sign the agreement and left a deposit on the new Project Cocoon Multimedia apartments/office space in Colas Nagar, Pondicherry. We’ve now got ourselves a nice three story building that gives us enough space to have client meetings, organize training events and even have freelance developers over to work on projects read more »

I’m auctioning שָׁלוֹם.com for Haiti disaster relief

When Internationalized Domain Names became available last year, I jumped on the bandwagon and registered a couple. One of these is שָׁלוֹם.com (Shalom as written in Hebrew). I’ve not done anything with it since and thought it would be a good way to raise money for Haiti disaster relief. I’m holding a blind auction, if read more »

Google search suggestions

This is what Google suggested to me as search queries earlier today.

Opera Unite – a first look

[update] I got some unite services working now from any browser, must have been a glitch earlier — feel free to leave a comment on my fridge :)  Opera announced that they would “reinvent the Web” today — having spent some time going through what was announced I’m not sure they managed to reinvent a read more »

FlashFocus.nl relaunched

This is a post for my Dutch speaking readers about the new and improved FlashFocus.nl community site.   Wat betreft nederlandstalige Flash community websites is er weinig twijfel dat FlashFocus.nl aan de absolute top staat. In 2003 was Flashtival, een evenement van FlashFocus, trouwens een van de allereerste conferenties waar ik een lezing gaf. Of read more »

Community certification

Over the last few years I’ve had several projects where I had to interview people to get involved on Flash/Flex/ActionScript projects — typically what happens is the client wants some sort of assurance that “nothing bad will happen” and somehow there is this perception that only getting people on board that have passed a certification read more »

A Closer Look at Mobile Vikings

If you live in Belgium chances are you will have heard about Mobile Vikings, a new MVNO on the market — one of their main objectives is to offer free mobile internet as part of their prepaid offer. Now that might not sound very impressive but in Belgium mobile data tariffs are through the roof. read more »

Google Analytics – your stats are at risk of getting spammed

I came across a surprising issue with Google Analytics yesterday when a client contacted me, it appeared page hits were getting logged for dozens of pages that don’t exist on his website. While I thought about the possibility of some PHP vulnerability or other security issue on the server, it occurred to me that obviously read more »

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