The first Flex 4 book (Hello! Flex 4) has just been released this month in the UK. I haven't read it yet, so no way I could give any reviews on it, but from the interwebs, I can see it's contents are really good. A must buy for the festive period.
comments - Posted by Marcos Placona at 10:59 AM - Categories: Flex
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comments - Posted by Marcos Placona at 4:13 PM - Categories: Review
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I've been following the recent news about CrunchPad, and for all of our disappointment, it's been discontinued due to a "misunderstanding" between the guys from TechCrunch and Fusion Garage, who were developing this together.
comments - Posted by Marcos Placona at 12:06 PM - Categories: Linux | Technology
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I've been working with some Adobe Flex recently, and was having some trouble formatting dates. For those who don't know, here (in th UK) we use the format "dd/mm/yyyy" (Day/Month/Year) as opposed to people over in the States using "mm/dd/yyyy" (Month/Day/Year).
comments - Posted by Marcos Placona at 12:41 PM - Categories: Flex | Adobe | Adobe AIR
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Not really Flash running from websites on the browser, but at the MAX Conference 2009 that is happening this week, Adobe has just broken the news that Flash developers will now be able to create applications for the Apple Iphone using Action Script 3.
comments - Posted by Marcos Placona at 10:30 PM - Categories: Technology
I have been doing some housekeeping on my VPS, and decided there's a few ports that should only be accessed by certain IP addresses for security purposes.
My VPS uses Linux, so I had to find a way to somehow changing my iptables settings to block the specific ports to every IP address, except for the ones I specified.
It's pretty straight forward, and here how you can block a specific port to everyone except for some IP addresses (the instructions are for Centos 5.5, but should work for other distros without problems):
Open our iptables settings file:
comments - Posted by Marcos Placona at 6:20 PM - Categories: Linux | VPS
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I'm only writing this blog post because I usually try to keep my VPS up to date, and usually one of the things I have to do to accomplish such thing is updating the Java version.
comments - Posted by Marcos Placona at 12:00 PM - Categories: Website Optimization | Linux | General Techie Stuff | Technology
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