Archive for March, 2008

Online Password Manager – Would You Dare Use This Software?

If have a rough sketch of an online password manager application in my head, but I want to hear your opinion about it beforehand. Especially about security, which I guess can be measured by letting you answer this question for me: Would you (dare) use the online password manager described here?
Why an Online Password Manager?
Is [...]

March 21, 2008  Tags: ,   Posted in: Design, Programming, Tools  23 Comments

Make Your Voice Heard At Adobe

I am regularly reading Matt Chotin from Adobe to get information about flex.
I just came across a post about a flex and coldfusion survey they are running, and because I use and care about flex, I took the time to take the survey. I just wanted to let you all know, that this survey is [...]

March 15, 2008  Tags: , ,   Posted in: Uncategorized  No Comments

Silverlight Pushed Down Your Throat

So, it has started. Well, maybe it has been going on for a while, but I just noticed myself this morning.
This morning, when I accepted the Windows Updates on my wifes laptop running Vista, I had the option of accepting the optional Silverlight 1.0 browser plugins as well. Previously, I have blogged about the big [...]

March 15, 2008  Tags:   Posted in: Uncategorized  No Comments

Adobe Makes Linux Citizens Be Second Rang

It should be so nice, but it is not. What can be downloaded of the new Flex 3 and AIR 1 releases? Windows and Mac versions, but no Linux version yet! I know, they have alpha/beta releases of Flex Builder 3 for linux, but they have no final release. Adobe has started releasing flashplayer for [...]

March 12, 2008  Tags: , , ,   Posted in: Tools  No Comments

Not All of Flex is So Open

Here we go again, with a little rant about Adobe and their half-way openness in flex.
They keep shouting about flex being open source, which is true, sort of. I mean, it is, but there are components in it, that are not. Take the new flex3, for instance. If you browse the flex3 SDK apidocs (and [...]

March 12, 2008  Tags: , ,   Posted in: Tools  One Comment

Log5j and The State of Log4j Version 2

I just took log5j for a spin. For those who does not know, log5j is a Java5 enhancement of the log4j api. It provides two new features on top of log4j, where one is made possible by Java5:

Feature 1: Obtain a logger without giving the logger name (which is bad, I think)
Feature 2: Using printf-style [...]

March 9, 2008  Tags: , ,   Posted in: Programming  2 Comments