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Almost here!

Posted by Justin Haygood on Saturday, April 10, 2010;

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My employer, EyeWonder, is being purchased by Limelight Networks out of Tempe,AZ, a major Content Delivery Network. The stockholder meetings are April 28th for the EyeWonder stockholders and April 30th for the Limelight stockholders. Limelight plans to keep EyeWonder a separate operating unit for now, so my job is safe.

Apple is evil, Part 2

Posted by Justin Haygood on Friday, April 9, 2010;

Apple just effectively banned 2 very good products for building (native) iPhone applications. Up until OS 4.0, these apps were perfectly fine, and you are probably using an app built using one of those 2 technologies already:

Adobe's Flash to iPhone compiler
Novell's MonoTouch
Unity 3D might be effected, but not quite sure yet

So yep.. Apple is evil.

Flash Player 10.1 LocalConnection performance problems

Posted by Justin Haygood on Sunday, March 28, 2010;

Disclaimer: This post has not been authorized by my employer, and any opinions are my own, and are not intended to construed as representing official opinion of EyeWonder, Inc.

While developing the next version of our ad authoring tool, I noticed a major performance issue that will affect a lot of people that use LocalConnection .. LocalConnection is slow in Flash Player 10.1! AdWonder uses LocalConnection for several things, but its primary usage is for "logging". The ubiqutious EW.sendToPanel call in our ads, which sends text to the output panel, now has a noticeable delay from when you send the command in the ad until it hits the output panel. This isn't just me, Tinic Uro from Adobe has confirmed this in his blog posting: There's not an approximate 33ms delay from when the call is made until its processed in Flash Player 10.1!

Using Facebook IM in Pidgin

Posted by Justin Haygood on Tuesday, March 2, 2010;

(This is an update to a very old post of mine btw)

Facebook now supports XMPP (also known as Jabber) for connecting to their network.

1. Make sure you have a Facebook username set at http://www.facebook.com/username/

2. Goto http://www.facebook.com/sitetour/chat.php and then click the Pidgin link

Success!

Posted by Justin Haygood on Tuesday, February 23, 2010;

A major project that I've been working on at work is actually in use for real production work. I am happy :). Rock on EyeWonder!

Snow photos!

Posted by Justin Haygood on Sunday, February 14, 2010;

All of these photos are also on Facebook, but I decided to post a sample of the snow pictures on my blog as well.

Man vs Food

Posted by Justin Haygood on Wednesday, February 3, 2010;

I just watched several episodes of this TV show called Man Vs Food. This crazy guy basically goes to all of these different places and faces a local eating challenge. Tonight, I saw him do the following:

Attempt to eat 8 breakfast burritos from this place in Austin, TX (he lost this one)
Finish a 72 oz steak dinner from this place in Amarillo, TX (72 oz steak, salad, baked potato, and a dinner roll). Amazingly enough, he still looked like he could eat more after this!
Eat 2 gallons of ice cream from this place in San Fransisco, CA
Eat 10 sushi roles of various spiciness from this place in Charleston, SC and ace it.

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