Posted November 7th, 2006 by Chris
Yesterday, my SE K800i decided - for no good reason - to completely die. Being out of Plymouth, I wasn’t overly keen on putting the phone in for repair (and not being able to pick it up), and scoured the Interweb for a quick -fix…
To describe the situation, the phone ran out of power. However, on charging it, the usual ‘charging’ screen didn’t appear, and the phone couldn’t be turned on. In fact, the only sign of any power to the phone was a tiny LED in the IR receiver flashing occasionally when the battery was connected. Judging by these posts on Esato, this is quite a common problem.
However, the solution lay in the last post on the forum. I headed to the Waton Server and set up an account. Running the software (and holding down the 2 and 5 keys, rather than C), the update was installed in seconds, and after disconnecting from the data cable, the phone (thankfully) restarted OK. It’s now charging, and being treated with care…
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Posted November 7th, 2006 by Chris
I first learnt about Adobe Flex a year or so ago whilst carrying out some research for my final project. Flex builder - the Eclipse-based IDE - wasn’t avsailable for Mac, and despite several attempts to work it from the terminal, I gave up and resorted to a simple Web interface.
This week, I found that the Flex builder has now been released for Mac. It might mean that I am now finally an ActionScript convert - just playing with the tutorials to build a blog reader (in 20 lines of code - interface included) already shows how great Flex is. With Adobe Apollo on the horizon, it’s questioning whether I should be coding in anything else!
Apollo is a cross-OS runtime that allows developers to leverage their existing web development skills (Flash, Flex, HTML, Ajax) to build and deploy desktop RIA’s.
One of the things I like about Flex is the MXML interface language. Building the Interface through XML in this way seems so much more efficient and manageable than the clunky Interface Builder method I’m using to make HostManager 2.0. Maybe one day, Cocoa might adopt XML-built interface files…?
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