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AES/Rijndael Encryption

Looking for AES encryption using Adobe Flex? I get a lot of hits from people searching about how to use AES encryption in an Adobe Flex application. My experience with Adobe Flex has been fairly limited, however I have found this package which should allow you to introduce AES encryption into your application. Please check [...]

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Devo & Enso

After looking at PodiPodi yesterday there was an obvious problem of context, which brought up a very valid question, “why would someone want to do a google/yahoo/whatever search while on your page and have the results displayed as an overlay on top of your page?”  There’s just no real point to it or value added [...]

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PodiPodi

I was browsing around on the internet this morning and I ran across a website plugin called PodiPodi.  Basically it looks like they took Enso from Humanized, ported it to the web and now offer it as a service to webmasters, allowing them to add it to their site. On July 7th they entered “public [...]

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WordPress 2.6

I have just upgraded this blog to the latest version of WordPress.  I really like where WordPress is going and hope they keep up all the good work. And as always, DreamHost made the entire upgrade process a simple one-click step.

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RiderRally

Well, it’s finally launched. After a very intense and stressful two months, we’ve created a social networking site from scratch. The company I work for, PROACE, partnered with the ROT Rally to create a site where bikers can communicate year-round. There are still quite a few new features that we’re planning on implementing, however since [...]

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Finding Music Through Muxtape

A couple of weeks ago, a co-worker of mine showed Drew and I a site that he was using to listen to music called Muxtape. It’s a pretty cool site that allows users to upload up to 12 songs to create their own mix tape, which is then public for everyone to hear. Last week [...]

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21 Going on 72

The past few weeks have been pretty fun. Last Sunday, Monday and Tuesday night I was having heart palpitations, which were lasting for about an hour to an hour and a half. When these happen for me, my heart feels like it’s racing out of my chest. I’ve been having them for the past year [...]

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My Latest Obsession

Those of you that know me in real life probably realize that I have a tendency to obsess about something for awhile, then sort of forget about it. Well, my latest obsession has been developing native applications for the iPhone and iPod Touch. For those of you that haven’t heard, apple has released their SDK. [...]

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Performance of Different Types of For Loops

In an old post I found online here the author asks how you would go about writing a simple for loop. I was bored tonight, so I wrote a simple program to time several different types of loops to confirm which is the fastest at iterating through a generic list, yes… that bored. My list [...]

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