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Re: About

Arek Grzanka Kolbark — Thu, 12 Nov 2015 08:17:54 -0000

[10:25:18] <xxcoder> Loetmichel2: my grinder isnt exactly standard
[10:26:21] -!- RoyBellingan [RoyBellingan!~roy@195.189.129.21] has joined #linuxcnc
[10:27:20] <loetmichel2> ah, you mean: "that colled holder looks like ER11, altho it dosent say so on the manual, lets see if a collet fiots?
[10:27:23] <loetmichel2> -o
[10:27:34] <xxcoder> more or less
[10:27:48] <xxcoder> I checked sizes and compared em to standards
[10:27:53] <xxcoder> it was $4 risk
[10:27:55] <xxcoder> so yeah
[10:28:16] <loetmichel2> then: lucky you, congrats ;)
[10:28:27] <xxcoder> its awesome because I now have a way to hold pile of used tool in that specific hold size
[10:28:39] <xxcoder> it cut inocel and are useless for metal

Re: Where am I? I’m repairing my shared event-dispatching system….

Stray — Sun, 21 Jul 2013 18:02:46 -0000

Thanks Si! I'm not sure I've felt very tough - one of the first symptoms of low cortisol is excessive weepiness! But we're very relieved to have an answer, especially one that is treatable without me having to go to the butchers and get pig and cow adrenal glands to mush up (yes, really, that was the only treatment until about the 1950s). Love to you and yours too - apparently there are Addison's dogs - I think Ruby might be one already as she alerted H to me being in serious trouble a couple of times in the run up to diagnosis. x

Re: Where am I? I’m repairing my shared event-dispatching system….

newtriks — Fri, 12 Jul 2013 06:06:04 -0000

Stray you're one tough lass it has to be said! To go through all of that and come out the other side with such an admirably positive outlook on the future deserves the highest props. I am glad its finally been pigeon holed so you can now keep on top of your health. Love to you and Helen x

Re: Where am I? I’m repairing my shared event-dispatching system….

Stray — Thu, 11 Jul 2013 16:39:27 -0000

Thanks Alec - and Helen says thanks too - she has been through the wringer a bit, often having more awareness of how scary things were than I did. Obviously my next personal project is an Addison's app for tracking it all and data mining for the patterns I don't notice :) I hope you're both thriving, Stray x

Re: Where am I? I’m repairing my shared event-dispatching system….

Alec McEachran — Thu, 11 Jul 2013 14:34:40 -0000

I'm so sorry to hear about your Addison's, Stray. Of course, I'm also impressed and heartily amused that you are able to express it so elegantly in coding terms! Good luck, and my very best wishes to you both. Alec x

Re: About

Ppitman3 — Sat, 02 Mar 2013 11:38:17 -0000

Hi, I am a fan of your Head First 2D Geometry and wonder if 3D geometry will come out or if you can suggest a good approach to that subject.

Re: Service testing crib post

creynders — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 03:19:03 -0000

Ah yes, the myriad of things that can go wrong with services. Headache inducing. Maybe an idea for a followup post: how you handle thrown errors, error events, incorrect response data etc. I for one get lost many times, when trying to find a consistent way to deal with those, since there are so many possible errors and depending on the service they need to be dealt with differently.

Re: Maps, maps and more maps

Mark Fox — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 20:57:34 -0000

RelaxedSignal, that does the trick nicely! I missed this the first time around but I'm breaking RobotLegs back out and am definitely enjoying RelaxedSignal ability to alleviate timing issues of mediators onRegistering after a signal dispatch.

Much more elegant than my initial solution which involved having the Mediator request an initial payload via a signal command that pulled from the model. A really tedious step that generated code that was pretty redundant.

Re: About

Stephan Caspar — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 17:04:15 -0000

Hi, very interested reading your blog. I was wondering where you're based. I'm a Head of Department at Fareham College in Hampshire and I look after the Gaming and Computing area. We have a one day festival every year and am looking for a guest speaker. I'm very keen to encourage more girls into computer science. With many female students doing so much better than their male peers in STEM subjects we're keen to encourage them to join us. I know that there's a huge need for role models and for them to see other women work successfully in this field. Be very interested in speaking with you, btw we have some lecturing jobs going http://jobs.next-gen.biz/jo... if you know anyone who might be interested. many thanks, Stephan

Re: Adventures in TDD – fillin’ a hole in the SignalCommandMap

Oliver — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 17:54:58 -0000

Thank you for the fabulous insight!

Re: After flash: who are ‘we’ now?

Charles-Moundir — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 10:04:47 -0000

Do as Adobe said. Shift your focus. I always hated being called a web developper. I'm not anymore. I'm a flash video game developper. (can you hear my joyful shriek?)

Re: After flash: who are ‘we’ now?

neilmanuell — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 04:40:27 -0000

I agree. half of what we do as developers is learning how to learn and problem solve. Technological change is part of our work, and our life - change is a constant. There have been some shifts for me that have hit me in the stomach... (changing from pmvc to robotlegs eg) the main problem for me, I now realise was leaving the community that I had become part of.

Re: After flash: who are ‘we’ now?

Chris — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 01:19:27 -0000

This article does a great job of bringing the human element back into the Flash shakeup. Most people view it as purely a technology issue. I also think that most people looking in from the outside don't realize that staying around Flash is just as hard as leaving it. When you've been around a platform so long and watched its rise, it can be tough to continue to think about pushing the envelope when a lot of the excitement has moved on.

There is still enough food left for a tribe, its just a much smaller tribe.

Re: After flash: who are ‘we’ now?

Marcelo Duende — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 00:55:45 -0000

Curiously, we had the same discussion today at flashcodersNY group and I just said that...
Marcelo Duende10:14 AM (11 hours ago)to flashcodersny

Wassup Kevin,I became a rider, I don't have a favorite language anymore, despite I still work with AS3, I'm commercially working with Java/Android and html/js/bullshit. But to be honest, I'm about to go deep with business... I'll explain.I just love flash, for real, I think it's the best tool ever made and I just love it, but it wasn't paying my bills anymore. So... from love, it became just work. If it is about to just work for money, I'd rather to open something and just get the freaking money, using any language. But, on top of it, I can create something sick for being the owner of the place, and not just super cool parallaxes from 2007.That's my thought, little bit crazy, but still a thought.Thanks

Re: After flash: who are ‘we’ now?

eldamar — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 18:02:48 -0000

There is a tribe gathering over at
http://haxe.org/ fresh crossplatform compiling for everyone. Flash developer should feel right at home ;)

Re: After flash: who are ‘we’ now?

Kevin Newman — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 11:49:26 -0000

I've even seen Adobe folk saying similar things - it comes with the "use the right tool for the job" meme - a meme which should have no place in the culture of a platform technology vendor (your platform needs to be the right tool, if you want to sell a platform - duh!).

Anyway, the Flash community fractured as it is, started as a niche, hobby platform for animation. Refocusing in on a new niche (gaming and video) is a fantastic move, and maybe we'll even get some new APIs out of it (we've already started to).

Personally, I'm going to keep using it for what I've always used it for - the awesome stuff HTML can't (ever) do, and make web pages out of HTML - just like always. :-)

Edit: I friggin hate disqus...

Re: After flash: who are ‘we’ now?

Chris Gannon — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 11:00:33 -0000

I'm still in the village - I've kept the fire going and I have made tea for everyone.

Nice article :)

Re: After flash: who are ‘we’ now?

Joseph Labrecque — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 10:30:43 -0000

-- “Hey, check out this awesome js framework!” has an echo of “Quit hanging around where there are no buffalo, stupid!” --

Then there are those who actually flat out say
“Quit hanging around where there are no buffalo, stupid!”. I've seen a number of condescending blog posts and conference sessions of this very nature by certain individuals who make it a point that they have "moved on" and we need to do the same. It's absurd and childish.
These things were happening even before 11/9 though they have escalated since then, tremendously.Everyone's circumstances and area of focus is different. Just because it makes sense for one person to stop working in a particular technology and adopt some other one hardly means that everyone using that technology should or even could make such a change. People need to stop judging and build with whatever suits the project. It's certainly struck my nerve a few times...

Re: About

Andrew — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 09:46:01 -0000

Hey.

Still looking for a Flash Dev? HMU at andrew[AT]blurgroup.com or 0203 176 2445.

Best.

Andrew

Re: About

Stray — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 18:06:58 -0000

Sorry for the delay - I missed this in my inbox. I have some left for people who make contributions to Robotlegs 2. So - pick up or post an issue, or make a fix, and then send me your details so I can get it to you.

Re: ActionScript Developer’s Guide to Robotlegs – done!

Stray — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 18:05:36 -0000

Thanks Alex! The diagrams are all done with Omnigraffle Pro - which I love for any kind of visual exploration.

Re: ActionScript Developer’s Guide to Robotlegs – done!

Alex — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 17:50:34 -0000

Enjoyed the book - while I've used RL for several projects already, it's been good to get a broader, and more in-depth, view of the framework. I was particularly impressed with the great illustrations of flows through an RL app - was they created with a standard diagramming app?

Re: About

Spirited Bohemian — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 16:31:22 -0000

Hi - did you give all of your timers away yet? If not - tell me how to get one. Thanks!

Re: Maps, maps and more maps

Stray — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 13:05:55 -0000

https://github.com/creynder...

Hi Mark - there's a relaxedSignal all ready to use - check out this demo, and let me know if that doesn't meet your need.

Re: Maps, maps and more maps

Mark Fox — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 12:56:52 -0000

Ah yes, Signals History: http://knowledge.robotlegs.... -- is there presently a utility implementation, or should I expect to roll my own?