So tonight my 10 year old decided that she wanted to learn flash. We are going through a basic tutorial but she decided to make a cat (rather then a circle) walk across the screen. This is clearly scope creep! There was budgeted time after dinner and before bed for a circle slide, not a walking mammal. After some time she said that it didn’t look right and wanted to spend more time in order to make it walk more realistically. I said that it was bedtime. Like any good developer faced with their project time getting cut she looked to reduce scope. ...

The first round of ‘official’ speakers set the bar pretty high for refreshPhilly. Tom Boutell from www.punkave.com gave us a talk on symphony and set the tone of the crowd as a hardcore web devs followed by Phil Charron and Russ Starke who brilliently challenged us to the core. Dragging up memories of aquaman they threw down the simple question: So what exactly are we going to do for Philly?

Philadelphia: 1, England 0 [caption id="" align=“alignleft” width=“180” caption=“Philly mummers”][/caption] [caption id="" align=“alignleft” width=“180” caption=“English Mummers”][/caption]

While hunting online for that movie with the couple who pay thier neighbors to act normal so they can sell thier home I got redirected to this nicely done virus page. Its a convincing experience to get the user to download and install the application. I wonder if these criminals would be open to oursourcing some IA work that I need done????? [caption id=“attachment_114” align=“alignnone” width=“300” caption=“Well done social engineerig page to install a virus”][/caption] ...

My sleek mac is more like a Jaguar then a chevy. Yes it is in the shop. My machine and 4 of its cousins left our office last week for an undisclosed service center for an indeterminate amount of time. I’m using a Dell laptop. The dell hardware is really solid as is the wireless connectivity. The operating system is windows on top of full drive encryption so the software experience leaves something to be desired. When I unplug the wire it immediately hops onto the corporate wireless network, something the mac can’t do (yet). ...