I had to parse an RFC 2822 date today in ActionScript. I couldn't find any equivalent of strptime in order to allow me to parse dates in a variety of formats. It turns out that ActionScript can do it automatically:new Date("Sat, 28 Nov 2009 10:15:02...

I've been playing around with Flowplayer, which is an "Open Source (GPL 3) video player for the Web". I decided to check out the Open Source Media Framework (formerly known as Strobe), which "enables developers to easily assemble pluggable components...

I'm working with a project that has a bunch of ActionScript (.as) files with old Mac line endings (i.e. CR instead of LF). For some reason, I see a bunch of references to mac2unix online, but I don't see anything readily available in Debian...

Have you ever noticed that the more you tweak your desktop theme, the more it drives you crazy? Maybe it's just me--I'm pretty compulsive obsessive. For most of my career, I've tried to create an interesting, exciting, cool-looking desktop. I know...

Since I already blogged about why I think xmonad is interesting, I thought I would take the time to blog about my xmonad setup. I'd like to thank arjuna del toso for his instructions, because that's how I got started. Start by installing all the...