RSully

I think today is a good day to give everyone a little update of the growth of UpIt and some things to expect in the future.

Theres been a lot of talk about the Apple iPad and Adobe’s Flash. I was just reading a post on the Adobe blogs about how apple is the one who is limiting it, which I think is wrong when it comes to Flash. I’ve read many posts on the subject and I think I can say that Adobe isn’t doing enough to make Flash more efficient on the mobile platforms. I don’t need my battery dead loading tons of Flash up.

Right now, on my Mac I have “ClickToFlash” installed, which stops all flash from showing unless I click on that specific element. I think this is the better idea for the iPad and even the iPhone. This way the RAM and CPU aren’t pushed to load all the Flash unless I tell it to, when I want to.

@storiesofmac:

New Post - Rocketbox: Mail Search, Done Right. Review and Giveaway: macstories.net/reviews…

I was apart of the RocketBox beta and I must say it turned out very nice. And I love my free license :)

nanochrome:

birdfeed:

Birdfeed is participating in Indie Relief, a great project Justin Williams and Garrett Murray put together to raise money for the Haiti earthquake relief efforts. All sales for participating applications on January 20, 2010 will be donated to a charity doing work in Haiti (in Birdfeed’s case, Doctors Without Borders). There are a lot of fantastic developers participating, so this is a great opportunity to discover great new iPhone and Mac software while helping a good cause.

So recently I was asked to create a script that downloads/extracts the item database from the online game of “Club Penguin”. The first time around, I made something silly, but it did the trick as far as I was concerned. However it was using a 3rd party website and just an HTML scrapper.

This time around, what I call “Draft 2” downloads the files directly and using a custom actionscript parser it can easily get what I assume is a JSON element and insert it into the database. The script runs much faster and gets all the items. Ask me here if you’re interested in it.

I’ve moved over to Tumblr.com hosted blogging instead of my local Wordpress.com installation. I hope this beginning is a good one.