Making it happen
Archive for June, 2008
What I was missing in C++
Jun 27th
But is now implemented in TR1 or Technical Revision 1: Associated Laguerre polynomials, Irregular modified cylindrical Bessel functions and of course Spherical Bessel functions of the first kind !
Flex SDK source
Jun 27th
Cool, it seems Flex SDK comes with source code for the entire framework (in C:\Program Files\Adobe\Flex Builder 3\sdks\2.0.1\frameworks\source).
ActionScript VM speed
Jun 27th
Surprisingly, Flex code runs extremely well, at about 300%-500% duration of the same .NET code speed. And all this with serious image-processing (in Flex with BitmapData).
Nokia to make Symbian open-source
Jun 24th
Whoa 
this is huge news in the mobile space. And, no, this won’t make Symbian a better mobile OS, it’s still crap.
Flex bug
Jun 21st
I encountered yesterday a terrible issue in ActionScript 3 (Flex): files (with new File) suddenly won’t open, and if you examine (watch) the File object you’d see a weird “function Function {}” string appended to file name.
The issue was traced to an extension of the Array class (using Array.prototype.myfunction), simply its presence will cause this bug.
(and yes, I’m doing Flex at the moment, having to translate some C# code to run in Air).
Intel Larrabee
Jun 12th
Whoa! It seems that Michael Abrash is involved in the Larrabee project by Intel!
