Monthly Archives: January 2010
YouTube ActionScript 3.0 Player, Welcome to the ActionScript future
This weekend, I finally brought The Couch TVs frontpage up to date. It had been broken for a while, ever since my little YouTube ActionScript 3 hack stopped working. Since YouTube announced their ActionScript 3.0 player, a few months ago, there is no need for a hack anyway. Now there is a clean way to [...]
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WAMP, An Acronym That Actually Makes Developers’ Lives Easier
A WAMP packages, is a software package that runs in Windows and includes an Apache HTTP Server, the MySQL database and PHP running on the server. If you want the cheapest way to run a website, it is probably the way to go. Although the LAMP version (which runs on Linux) might save you just [...]
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Kanban, Project Management for the Next Decade?
One of the main aims of Kanban is to make the process more visible and therefor measurable. Kanban can be “bolted onto” many project methodologies and make them more visible from the outside.
Part 1 introduces Kanban, which is a little too vague in my opinion. But part 2 is where it gets really interesting and [...]
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Synergy, One Keyboard and Mouse, Multiple PCs
If you’re anything like me, you probably have at least one PC and one laptop on your desk, maybe even more. And all of those have a separate keyboard and mouse. It’s not a pretty sight for a minimalist. Luckily, there’s Synergy, a program that allows you to share one keyboard and mouse across several [...]
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Vaadin, a Different Way to Promote a Great GWT Toolkit
Until Devoxx, I had never heard of Vaadin. Vaadin is a Java framework built on top of the Google Web Toolkit (GWT) to further simplify the creation of modern and user friendly web applications. While GWT already abstracts away many of the JavaScript details, Vaadin further hides most of the client/server communication.
The way I got [...]
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Herman Millers Desk Companion for Your Chair
Herman Miller releases a new desk that fits your body like a glove. Just make sure you also buy the chair. Based on your bodies anatomy, Herman Miller has been producing chairs that support you in just the right places. One of the main selling points of this rather expensive chair, is that it also [...]
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No More Tragedies of the Commons
I first was introduced to the tragedy of the commons in Lawrence Lessig’s book “The Future of Ideas”. It deals with the problems that exist when one tries to apply “real life” economic models to digital content. Bits are virtually free, you pay a pittance per bit to your Internet provider. In return you get [...]
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Graveyard Shift, Shoot the New Year Blues Away
Before we really get started in the New Year, here is a final look back at another great casual game of 2009, called Graveyard Shift. While Avalon was all relaxation, Graveyard Shift is about adrenaline. It’s a rail shooter in Flash.
While the nighttime landscape scrolls from right to left, zombies and their brethren show up [...]
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