Opera Experience

I've disabled comments on all posts for the time being. I'm trying to migrate over to a new system and have already exported the required data. Until that migration is complete, there likely won't be any new posts, nor the ability to comment. All will resume as normally when I get my data migr ...

I recently tried installing Bootcamp on a new iMac. Everything went fine until I was installing the drivers off of a plain Leopard DVD. Three attempts yielded the famous BSOD. Googling around, I found that you have to use the install disk that came with your machine if you have the latest gener ...

Google had a huge announcement earlier this month, that being a Mapping API for Flash. There was already two big names in the space, ESRI and Yahoo, but neither were entirely perfect -- and I think Google might come close. Each was good, but either lacked good imagery (ESRI) or good commercial ...

In the recent Opera 9.5 beta and weekly builds, you've been able to use Opera Dragonfly. It's their version of a Firebug for Firefox or the Web Inspector in Safari/Webkit. In terms of using it, it's currently clumsy, you have to go through a menu to open it, then select the page from a dropdown ...

A while back I wrote a function in AS3 to put out the relative time (eg: 3 days ago), similar to the one built-in to Rails. It's been sitting around collecting dust for a while, so I thought I'd share it the AS3 world. Just be kind, I wrote it when I was learning AS3, so it's not necessarily pr ...