Why it is good to have a blog
Not because it’s trendy or fancy. Far from it. There are different purposes:
- First and foremost you may be blogging, because you feel an urge to share your thoughts on different things / events in this world. This is called a personal blog.
- Then you may have a professional / technical blog. Lots of guys (and girls) who do blog for a living are of course professional in the field of blogging, so they usually have a blog-related blog in which they share their thoughts on how to do it, etc. Or you have a certain skill, like writing programs in Lisp. You are certain that it’s a cool thing and want to share your views and adventures with it with the whole world. Or sports, cars, music, videos, you name it. Even a niche like how to build the best car-stereo, or how to take care of your degus, chinchillas, etc. can be interesting - not just to you, but to your fellow internet-surfers as well. These are called technical / niche / professional blogs (I am aware of the fact that by now there may be proper names “invented” for these, but I dare not to look after it.)
- Marketing oriented. The sole purpose of these is to sell their “product” or service. This may be a good thing after all, if it is coupled with the professional blog type, but if it only want to blindly sell something without providing anything it’s a no go.
Duck in a box (hole)
Kacsa a lyukban… Vajon mit képzelhetett? És mi lett a mókussal, aki előtte ott lakott? Hajléktalan mókus lett vajon? 
Why you should use Opera for debugging Adobe Flex applications on Mac OSX
The simple reason for this is: It is the only one that works well. I try to develop a small Adobe Flex app in eclipse 3.4 with the adobe flex plugin trial in it (v 3.2 of the flex sdk) - and am using OS X 10.5, Leopard.
Safari is a very nice and usually fast browser, but when it comes to debugging flex apps, and Safari being launched from eclipse it just uses whatever old cached version it still has. It also does not matter if you turn on the Developer menu, and deliberately switch off caching. I tried that, no luck, just frustration. For debugging Flex applications Safari is a sucking pig.
Also I still use Firefox -despite getting slower and slower as its newer versions come out - for debugging purposes, and reverse engineering css files (the excellent firebug tool + yahoo’s yslow comes to mind). For that it’s good. When I turn off its caching via the web developer plugin it is turned off for real (not like with Safari). However there’s one thing wrong with it when you want to debug in OSX 10.5 with eclipse 3.4+adobe flex plugin. When you set it up as the browser to use in eclipse and want to debug your app it just says “A copy of Firefox is already open. Only one copy of Firefox can be open at a time.” › Continue reading
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