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Ice Cube, How… How could you?

I’ve always liked you. Even after Anaconda, and your last attempts I heard on the radio, I still remember… Jumping on my bed, memorizing lyrics and blasting ‘Straight Outta Compton’

“Flash is outta here”… It’s not so much the message, it’s the messenger. I don’t care what Ice Cube thinks about flash, it’s just so damn surreal to hear him say it?! He might as well have said, “Singleton pattern is for Suckas!”. People outside working hours just don’t say things like that. Period. It’s wrong. It’s like seeing your teacher outside school. Or your grandpa talking about sex. Ice cube?! wtf?

Will Adobe respond? Too bad Eazy-E is dead? Maybe Snoop Dogg could churn out some dope ass AIR apps… East Coast West Coast? Puff Daddy? Browser wars are so passe, puhleaze, I for one welcome our new MTV Gangsta driven RIA Platform warring Overlords!!!!11

Last week I started preparing an “Example Cairngorm app” that I could train the new nascom flash team with. Last night, I modified it :

Click to placate your Ice Cube Hate

There’s an HttpService which points to a php script, which in turn returns insults scraped from some online “insult generator” pages. These are displayed over randomly rotating screen shots from the offending video . If the Cairngorm training does happen, I may continue work on this masterpiece!. “AddInsult” (yeah baby, web2.0). “Viewed insults” screen with a datagrid (so sexy :D) . Maybe some HOTT text effects, tomato cannon, even some Fire?!! As usual, you can right click for source, prolly not worth it though. Some original code, some source from here and there…

If you’re new to Cairngorm, David Tucker has some well written tutorial style articles. Not to stray from the topic of Ice Cube, but I’ve been weighing PureMVC and Cairngorm… I lean more towards Cairngorm, but am not crazy about it. There’s a funny (but makes a point) posting at the bottom of this blog entry concerning these two frameworks. But that’s another topic.

Go insult Ice Cube!

For shizzle, ice cube is more this than this

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