PDC 2008 - Here I Come

Travel time again. Destination Los Angeles. There I'll spend the next week learning everything that Microsoft will try to teach me - and probably then some.
See you all at the parties! I'll be the guy in a gray t-shirt, with a laptop and a high-tech phone. If you find me, I'll buy you a beer or something!

Flash Rss Reader

Another little flash gadget I just made... An RSS reader. Yes, I know it's an original idea - but it seemed like a good, comprehensible, and to some degree useful thing.

For fun I made iPhone style navigation - in the sense that you need to drag right or left to move between items.
It lists the blog feed from labs.episerver.com.

The trickiest thing was to handle all the security around loading a URL in flash. Flash can only load data from the same domain as it is located on (or another domain that has a crossdomain.xml file in the root, allowing flash access). Anyway, the simple solution was to make a small rss proxy in c# (around 3 lines of code) and put it on my test-domain together with the flash app.

Allan version 1952

Just stumpled upon Yearbookyourself.com. What a cool feature! You can see how you would look like on a high-school yearbook picture from 1950-2000.

In case you're wondering, here's how I would have looked in 1952 (when I was -27 years old).

Oh, the power of DHTML

I spend Sunday visiting Copenhagen's Zoological museum with my wife and son. Great museum, even my 14 months old son loved it - all the stuffed animals to look at and pet! Nevertheless, I came across some stuffed lemmings there and quickly found myself floating back memory lane to that wonderfully 90-something game that I used to spend so many hours enjoying.

I figured someone probably had put it online by now - but I hadn't imagine a DHTML+Javascript only version of it. Check it out! Very cool.