Making websites that are iPhone-friendly is easy enough, but I recently wanted to make a site that felt like a real iPhone app.  I don’t own a Mac, so building a native iPhone app wasn’t an option. I turned to iWebKit 5.0, a lightweight DHTML toolkit for making websites that look “native” on the iPhone. [...]

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Last year I led a software project that employed a SOA architecture and a Flex UI.  The features we were able to build with FlexBuilder (now FlashBuilder) were pretty sweet and remarkably easy…  I’ve become a huge fan of Flex as a result. The new FlashBuilder 4 provides some powerful new tools for integrating with [...]

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Ever wanted to defragment a certain file or collection of files on your Windows PC, without defragging the entire hard drive? Here’s why and how you can do it: Don’t Bring Me Down I recently noticed that one of my oft-used Windows applications was getting slower and slower. After checking the usual suspects in Task [...]

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