Geotagging, you’re it!
By Mims Wright | on August 29, 2006
In Photography, Site-seeing, User Interface Design, XHTML / CSS / JS | No Comments
My favourite website just got favouriter! Flickr has announced “Geotagging” which interfaces with the Yahoo! Maps API to let you drag and drop your pictures onto the location where they were taken. The result is a giant map.
Now I just need a few weeks to retroactively geotag my 800+ photos!
It’s a good time for us to be us
By Mims Wright | on August 22, 2006
In Business, News, Rants, Serious Stuff | 3 Comments
A major sign that we’re doing something right (and a small justification of my rockstar post), this recent article from AdvertisingAge paints a very interesting picture of the industry. It makes me wonder a) if we’re just headed for another implosion of the industry and b) why isn’t Crispin Porter calling me? I’d work for a measly $250K!
Thanks to EJ for the link.
[DefaultProperty] defines a default property. [duh]
By Mims Wright | on August 21, 2006
In Flex, Rants | 1 Comment
They must have been putting in some late nights at Adobe while working on the documentation for Flex… nevertheless, here is an excellent example of how [Not] to write (from Creating and Extending Flex 2 Components).
DefaultProperty metadata tag
The
[DefaultProperty]metadata tag defines the name of the default property of the component when you use the component in an MXML file.The
[DefaultProperty]metadata tag has the following syntax:[DefaultProperty("propertyName")]The propertyName property specifies the name of the default property.You can use the
[DefaultProperty]metadata tag in your ActionScript component to define a single default property. For more information, and an example, see “Creating a default property” on page 125.
[Yawn] If you’ve learned anything about what exactly default properties are from this excerpt can you please explain it to me?
Also, I’d just like to add that the Flex metadata tags, of which there are 11, represent a minor [WTF?] for me. These are used to [Manually] mark certain bits of code as things that the compiler should be aware of but would otherwise not be (for example, all events must be marked with an [Event] metadata tag for Flex to recognize them). It’s probably not as bad as it seems but I wish they had figured out a [BetterTechnique].
Would anyone care to comment on metadata tags?