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I should have posted about this earlier but I have been really slammed with work of late. However I did manage to get away for an evening as the onAir bus rolled into Philadelphia. It was really a cool evening (evenings with free beer usually are) and I did manage to meet a lot of [...]

A quick update for anyone using or interested in DiggGraphr Desktop. I ported the application to AIR today (it was a fairly painless operation requiring changes to just the application descriptor XML file and the parent tag of the application). So go ahead and get the latest build from here. For the uninitiated, the DiggGraphr [...]

For the last couple of days I have been monkeying around with the HTML control in AIR. One aspect that fascinated me was the ability of AIR to execute arbitrary javascripts to manipulate the DOM of the loaded document. So I wrote this proof of concept application which I LOVE. I use Yahoo news for [...]

This is amazing. My apollo application is one of the 10 finalists in the Digg API contest. But it gets even better: Techcrunch did an overview of the 4 apollo based entries and only mine has a screenshot up there (yay! I am special). I am not going to win the contest itself but I [...]

I just submitted by entry for the Digg API contest. Building on my earlier DiggGraphr tool, I was fairly easily able to port it to Apollo. I even added some customization features, like refresh interval and stuff. For more details on the application, check out the application page here. Feedback is always welcome PS, it [...]

This is for a project I am working on and it works pretty sweet. There were a few lessons learnt during the development of the app so I thought I would write a post on it in the spirit of the rest of the world learning from my mistakes . The project (that I cant [...]