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iPhone faux-apps with iWebKit

April 23rd, 2010 · 1 Comment

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. It [...]

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Build a Simple Map Client with SOAP and Flex

March 23rd, 2010 · No Comments

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 various [...]

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Defrag a Single File or Set of Files in Windows

August 20th, 2008 · 2 Comments

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 [...]

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