Spreading Funkyness

The popular Jaiku service, bought by Google one year ago, is back online! Now it runs on the new Google App Engine, which should guarantee more stability and speed. Let’s hope they update also the api service, with new functionalities, which I’d like to include in Posty I’d like to see: friends posts verify credentials …

I took some time to test Posty on Linux. Inspite the fact that Adobe Air for Linux is still alpha version, I am surprised that Posty runs fine on major Linux distributions. The only issue, first identified by Daria, is that Posty is memoryless, that is you set it to remember login data, but when …

I created a quick screencast which shows how simple is to microblog by means of Posty. Posty Screencast from funkyboy on Vimeo.

Adobe Air apis allow storing encrypted data on your hard drive. During a conversation with an Adobe engineer I discovered that data are stored in this directory: Adobe/AIR/ELS/ For example on my mac data are stored in: /Users/MYUSERNAME/Library/Application Support/Adobe/AIR/ELS Of course you can delete encrypted data via code by using: EncryptedLocalStore.reset(); Beware, this deletes ALL …

Sometimes I have the need to associate two different actions to the same button. It is not always a good solution. Indeed, good user interfaces should have a clear layout and buttons should always do the same thing. Sometimes, but very rarely, you can disregard such a rule and associate different actions to the same …