What’s the best license for my project?
Grant Skinner has released a very succinct comparison of the common open-source licenses on his blog.
It’s funny I’ve been scouting the web for so long to find such a thing. Everyone raving about open-source could talk for days about the different licenses and head aches are often on the table.
So finally, this is clearing out a few things for Flex/Air/Flash developers.
In his comparison, he seems to be putting MIT’s license in front.
Have a good
How to make flex buttons use the hand cursor (on roll over)
This is a basic tutorial for beginners in Flex.
* Difficulty: Easy
* Required: Flex Builder
We’re going to extend the Button Component of flex to automatically use the hand cursor. It’s also a good introduction on how to make your own components.
Create a Class
In Flex Builder, right click within the folder of your current Flex project and select “New Actionscript class”
* as Package, put your name or your url backwards, in this example org.noben
* pick a name
Digg UFO updated
Digg UFO is a Digg Aggregator that displays Digg in a more interesting way. You can easily follow the categories.
Version 1.2 includes much faster rendering and left-right key support.
Updates
iRSS is finished and in private beta! … I’m really excited about that app for iphone, and I look forward to open it to public. It will have its own .com and has already been renamed from its development name iRSS. I already use it on a daily basis and it’s part of my life.
I started working on Sharup.com. Details can be found on
iRSS: final steps
Final steps Ok this part has been harder. The technicality of a user registration and everything that goes with it is nowhere near simple. Security measures, hacking protections and session management were only a few to point out the issues. It was also a lot less fun to write. No more CSS or HTML play. This was rough pure php user management. Anyway I manage to get it all working well! ...iRSS: moving on to step 2.
Moving on!
I now got the manage page sorted (kinda), deleting feeds works, the add feed button brings the panel and the autodiscovery is implemented.
I’m not too happy with the code. This time I didn’t use cake php or any framework so it is up to me to spit out decent code. I’ve yet to talk to thibaut about the best way of doing the clean URL and structuring the code a bit better. He is
iRSS: another RSS reader for iPhone is born.
Well, since I could not find a rss reader that I liked on iphone, I decided to make my own.
Mdigger was cool but I didnt like the idea of webclips. It is also pretty tugly!
I also tried newsgator but I hated the fact that I couldnt just add feeds from the interface! How silly is that? It does tell you the unreads but won’t let you manage your feeds!
As a native app on the