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If you’ve visited sakri.net/blog in the past month or so, you may have noticed some weirdness… Disappearing posts mainly, posts with commenting off, inquisitive guests may even have witnessed a long list of spam links in the source

At first I thought the ‘incredible disappearing post’ was just a human error (me editing spelling mistakes and accidentally deleting an entire post). The second time around, with no edits, I figured something was wrong. That, accompanied by a sudden barrage of spam comment candidates appearing in my inbox. :mad:

Turns out Akismet had been deactivated.

wtf? How?

Then, somehow magically about 100 links were inserted at the end of my 360flex post. Again, wtf? how? I checked phpmyadmin to find a few extra posts, with some very random content.

So, I updated wordpress, and changed my password. Let’s see if this post will also join the ranks of ‘incredible disappearing posts’. (I now save backups )

As a most disturbing afternote, my domineering position at the top of google search for the term “sakri” has been overtaken by the wikipedia entry on sakri (apparently the New York City of India) and some social networking site called batchmates?! Do not underestimate the fierce battles that rage for this top ranking position and the endless bounty that is to be had by the victor. I’m 100% certain my demise was caused by the list of spam links… not to worry… like Aaaahnold, I’ll be baaack… I have a sneaking suspicion about the identity of this hacker… look out wikipedia and batchmates, I’m onto you!!!!

UPDATE: AAARRRGGGHHHH…. so, no links to man medicine, but posts they still are a disappearin’…. WTF?!!! Is there a cron job inserted into my WP that removes my latest post once a week? What have I done to deserve this? Does FSM delete my posts with his noodly appendages?! (which would be an honor). Wordpress 2.5, here I come…

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I get back from snowboarding to find out this post just disappeared?! Did I save an edit and delete the contents? wtf? No wonder there were no comments

Here is what I remember of it… oh, and while I’m at it, how is it that comments are blocked in the 360 flex post?!!!!

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THE FLEX ANTHEM… Have patience till about 30 seconds or so into the song for the MAGICAL chorus to KICK IN

(safe for work unless you work at the vatican)

I have, and probably will for a long time, heard this every time I spark up flex lately

(oh and, I seem to have fuXored my flash embed, so just click the link j00 lazy bastaaahdz)

I’ve been listed on the homepage for a while now, I finally penned the “blurb” to my presentation which is :

Invalidation Routines, Pounded into your cranium once and for all!

The Flex Framework Invalidation Routines are a core tool in a visual component authors kit. This is a relatively small topic, yet, one often skimmed through, frequently misunderstood, or worse, entirely ignored. This presentation will go through the basics in a comprehensive manner, then dig deeper into the details and follow up with several real world examples, with an underlying emphasis on the common battles between designers and developers. The goals are to appreciate the mechanism, how and when to use it, and furthermore to understand where things can go wrong. “Invalidation Routines, Pounded into your cranium once and for all!” is targeted at developers dealing with visual components, from entry to mid level, but will hopefully also contain some gems for the seasoned veteran.

I have to say I’m really looking forwards to this! The topic might sound a little dry (what flex topics don’t? ), but I’ve already got a bunch of ideas to liven it up and hopefully produce a memorable presentation. The reason I picked the topic is simple: Flex has people coming from the developer world and from the flash world, the invalidation routines are alien to both It’s not rocket science, but a ‘must know’.

See you there

Technorati Profile

Meh, all the cool kids are doing it.

ok, if you feel ripped off by this post, here’s one of the two seafood trays consumed at my place on new years:

Happy belated new year!

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

Right, my phone is an outdated piece of crap (relatively speaking), beat up too, for good measure.

I haven’t bothered to update, as there just aren’t any “killer features” I feel I’m missing out on. I will once Nokia releases a phone with wifi. Yes, Nokia, not an iPhone, I am from Finland after all

Anyway, I deviate from flash and flex and text effects, simply because opera mini 4 knocked my socks off. I’ve had Opera mini installed for a long time, and I like to read reddit and slashdot etc. when in the train, tram, walking the dogs, rocking my baby to sleep in her pram, on holidays, taking a dump (yes, I’m a man of class).

Anyway, without opera mini in the first place, I wouldn’t use my phone for surfing (d000d hang10). (if you don’t know about the optimization process, do visit operamini.com). A few days ago, an “update opera” link appeared, I clicked it, and very quickly (the .jar file is under 100kb) tested out the new browser. HOW THINGS HAVE IMPROVED!!!!!

I punch in reddit, a site with some ajax features, the layout isn’t too complex, but still, I used to have to scroll through a bunch of ads and other crap to get to the headlines. Now when I start, I see the entire page, zoomed out.

It’s unreadable, but OMG?! There’s a mouse!!! Suddenly my phone has a mouse?!!! I can move around to the part of the website which I find interesting and zoom! No more ads, no more menu items I don’t care about, just headlines:

And… to top it off, I can actually log in, and I can up/down vote stories! None of that was available before. (ok, logging in, a whole new can of worms, not fodder for this post though).

(am I a top notch photographer or what?)

anyway, there’s a ton of new features, read about them here : http://www.operamini.com/features/

Opeara, hats off

What these fine men of Norway have in effect accomplished, free of charge, is upgrade my mobile phone! Value has been added! It has suddenly leaped forwards, and become a more useful tool. Amazing!

. . YAARRRRRR….. AIRRRRRSOME…. . .

nascom logo:

Brand Spanking New AIR logo Released yesterday (Mnemonic Square Icon Version) (stolen from Ryan Stewart) :

Coincidence? I think not?!

Nascom was DESTINED to be the numba one like super Greg

yo!

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Boulevart and all you other sucker agencies might as well start looking at Silverlight

I wasn’t planning on involving my kids (let alone talk about kids) in this blog, particularly after my “political” post from this morning, but this is flash related!!!

It’s my take on wefail style puppetry!!! How many birthday cards have you seen that implement Model View Controller?? The Christmas card is gonna be a Flex3 app this year

Check it out, hope it puts a smile on your face (make sure you got sound on):

HAPPY BIRTHDAY KIDS

oh yeah, and ps. Here’s another one I made back in 2006… DJ KEON Basically, it’s a set of images, and the script chooses 2 at a time, toggles them for a bit, then chooses two other images, and so on… often it really looks like it’s synched to the music

So the Belgians are having their elections on the 10th… They’ve erected billboards all over so candidates can see their important faces on posters! The photo below was snapped down the street from my house:

My friend Stephane picked me up the other day on the way to work, and started telling me about this “hardcore” poster he saw, where they had written text over a womans face… Pretty much everyone I’ve shown this to has pulled the “living ooh” face. What’s the message??! Surely they aren’t covering her face because she left the party, and they couldn’t afford another photoshoot?! Sweet beards though The red one must have some special powers!

I don’t dare to link to them, but you can see these serious dudes actually smiling on their website… Surprisingly the woman doesn’t have her own poster

Welcome to possibly the sweetest blog on earth, and when I say sweet I mean totally awesome. I can’t stop thinking about this blog. Once, my friend mark read this blog, then proceeded to flip out and kill an entire town!

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facts about this blog:

1. this blog is written by a mammal
2. I blog ALL the time
3. The purpose of this blog is to flip out and bore people to DEATH.

For now this is all you need to know!