Comments for Bill White's Blog http://www.billdwhite.com/wordpress Focusing on HTML5, Javascript, iOS and Flex development Mon, 23 Apr 2012 06:30:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Comment on Core Flex 4 – Elements vs Children by Komal http://www.billdwhite.com/wordpress/?p=296&cpage=1#comment-5328 Komal Mon, 23 Apr 2012 06:30:32 +0000 http://www.billdwhite.com/wordpress/?p=296#comment-5328 Thanks a lot...it was an awesome explanation..u have cleared all my concepts about this in depth :) Thanks a lot…it was an awesome explanation..u have cleared all my concepts about this in depth :)

]]> Comment on Satellite alignment has ‘peaked’ my interest by Bill http://www.billdwhite.com/wordpress/?p=20&cpage=1#comment-5188 Bill Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:50:51 +0000 http://www.billdwhite.com/wordpress/?p=20#comment-5188 Ah, yes, now I see what you are referring to; I'm just taking a guess, but I suspect that coax connection between the dish and the receiver needs to be terminated to complete the loop just like the old 10-Base-T networks from the 1990's. In those days, most networked computers were daisy chained together by a single coax cable and the end of the cable had to be 'terminated' by either the network card or a small silver cap that terminated the line and (as I understand it) closes the loop on the connection. So when there is not a receiver on the other end of the acutrac I guess you have to close the loop yourself with the terminators. If you the receiver in connected with the acutrac in the middle, the receiver closes the loop for you, just like it does when the system is setup normally. Once, again, just a guess though. :) Ah, yes, now I see what you are referring to; I’m just taking a guess, but I suspect that coax connection between the dish and the receiver needs to be terminated to complete the loop just like the old 10-Base-T networks from the 1990′s. In those days, most networked computers were daisy chained together by a single coax cable and the end of the cable had to be ‘terminated’ by either the network card or a small silver cap that terminated the line and (as I understand it) closes the loop on the connection. So when there is not a receiver on the other end of the acutrac I guess you have to close the loop yourself with the terminators. If you the receiver in connected with the acutrac in the middle, the receiver closes the loop for you, just like it does when the system is setup normally. Once, again, just a guess though. :)

]]> Comment on Satellite alignment has ‘peaked’ my interest by Herb Johnson http://www.billdwhite.com/wordpress/?p=20&cpage=1#comment-5178 Herb Johnson Fri, 03 Feb 2012 01:19:37 +0000 http://www.billdwhite.com/wordpress/?p=20#comment-5178 The User Manual on page 11 talks about the terminator and says attach the included terminator to the I.R.D. port when using the meter only for alignment. I don't understand what the terminator is. Thanks for responding. The User Manual on page 11 talks about the terminator and says attach the included terminator to the I.R.D. port when using the meter only for alignment. I don’t understand what the terminator is. Thanks for responding.

]]> Comment on Flex, HTML5 or iOS: Where are things going? by Bill http://www.billdwhite.com/wordpress/?p=389&cpage=1#comment-5146 Bill Tue, 31 Jan 2012 23:33:11 +0000 http://www.billdwhite.com/wordpress/?p=389#comment-5146 Well, I guess my first thought is that targeting the Flash run-time for running anything web-based is becoming moot now that Adobe has released control of Flex and turned it over to Apache. So the multiple run-time output capabilities of OpenLaszlo do not really buy me that much anymore. Plus, their declarative XML model can be hard to work with. Of course it has been years since I worked with it so that aspect may have improved. Really, I'm finding that using JavaScript libraries (Dojo, jQuery, etc) seems to offer more flexibility and benefit that something like OpenLaszlo. In 2005 it was cutting edge, but now I'm not really sure I see a selling point for using it over something like Dojo since browsers are really the only run-time environment I care about. I too am interested if someone has a different stance on this though. Well, I guess my first thought is that targeting the Flash run-time for running anything web-based is becoming moot now that Adobe has released control of Flex and turned it over to Apache. So the multiple run-time output capabilities of OpenLaszlo do not really buy me that much anymore. Plus, their declarative XML model can be hard to work with. Of course it has been years since I worked with it so that aspect may have improved. Really, I’m finding that using JavaScript libraries (Dojo, jQuery, etc) seems to offer more flexibility and benefit that something like OpenLaszlo. In 2005 it was cutting edge, but now I’m not really sure I see a selling point for using it over something like Dojo since browsers are really the only run-time environment I care about. I too am interested if someone has a different stance on this though.

]]> Comment on Satellite alignment has ‘peaked’ my interest by Bill http://www.billdwhite.com/wordpress/?p=20&cpage=1#comment-5145 Bill Tue, 31 Jan 2012 23:27:03 +0000 http://www.billdwhite.com/wordpress/?p=20#comment-5145 Not really sure what you're referring to here. Where did someone caution about the terminator? Not really sure what you’re referring to here. Where did someone caution about the terminator?

]]> Comment on Satellite alignment has ‘peaked’ my interest by Herb Johnson http://www.billdwhite.com/wordpress/?p=20&cpage=1#comment-5092 Herb Johnson Tue, 24 Jan 2012 02:59:26 +0000 http://www.billdwhite.com/wordpress/?p=20#comment-5092 Can you explain what the terminator is all about. Can't you just connect the LNB cable to the LNB connection of the Acutrac 111 and connect a cable from the receiver to the Acutrac? Why the caution about the terminator? Please help. Thanks. Can you explain what the terminator is all about. Can’t you just connect the LNB cable to the LNB connection of the Acutrac 111 and connect a cable from the receiver to the Acutrac? Why the caution about the terminator? Please help. Thanks.

]]> Comment on Flex, HTML5 or iOS: Where are things going? by Robert Cesaric http://www.billdwhite.com/wordpress/?p=389&cpage=1#comment-5090 Robert Cesaric Mon, 23 Jan 2012 17:53:16 +0000 http://www.billdwhite.com/wordpress/?p=389#comment-5090 I was revisiting Open Laszlo and stumbled upon your post. I've always been curious why Laszlo isn't more popular than it is. Similarly, I had started with it and then moved to Flex when it came out. I'd be curious to hear your thoughts why you are or aren't considering it as a solution during your transition. Thx! I was revisiting Open Laszlo and stumbled upon your post. I’ve always been curious why Laszlo isn’t more popular than it is. Similarly, I had started with it and then moved to Flex when it came out. I’d be curious to hear your thoughts why you are or aren’t considering it as a solution during your transition. Thx!

]]> Comment on About by Bill http://www.billdwhite.com/wordpress/?page_id=2&cpage=1#comment-5089 Bill Mon, 23 Jan 2012 12:52:14 +0000 #comment-5089 Hi Andy, I you right click on the Tile UI Part 2 Demo, you can view the source code for it. The reset just recreates and re-executes the layout logic that leads up to the start of the demo. You could also save a map of the initial start points for all your tiles and redirect them back to those positions if you want to get fancy. :) Bill Hi Andy,

I you right click on the Tile UI Part 2 Demo, you can view the source code for it. The reset just recreates and re-executes the layout logic that leads up to the start of the demo. You could also save a map of the initial start points for all your tiles and redirect them back to those positions if you want to get fancy.

:)
Bill

]]> Comment on About by Andy http://www.billdwhite.com/wordpress/?page_id=2&cpage=1#comment-5082 Andy Sun, 22 Jan 2012 18:54:17 +0000 #comment-5082 Hi there Mr White, I came across your physics demos and wanted to drop a quick "thank you for those". I learned a lot looking at the code inside and I managed to implement a slightly modified version on my website. If you are interested click the small "atom" icon on the top grey toolbar to the right of the screen to activate simulation and start dragging around the modul panels. Yet Im not only writing to do advertising ;) I got a technical question : How could I do a reset to the sparkphysicscontainer in order to move the content to their original positions after dragging them all over the place ? You got this feature on your TileUI Part2 demo but things have changed for the spark version. Id be happy if you could help me out with this. Sincerely, Andy Hi there Mr White,

I came across your physics demos and wanted to drop a quick “thank you for those”. I learned a lot looking at the code inside and I managed to implement a slightly modified version on my website. If you are interested click the small “atom” icon on the top grey toolbar to the right of the screen to activate simulation and start dragging around the modul panels.

Yet Im not only writing to do advertising ;) I got a technical question : How could I do a reset to the sparkphysicscontainer in order to move the content to their original positions after dragging them all over the place ? You got this feature on your TileUI Part2 demo but things have changed for the spark version.

Id be happy if you could help me out with this.

Sincerely,
Andy

]]> Comment on Core Flex 4 – Elements vs Children by Glenn Williams http://www.billdwhite.com/wordpress/?p=296&cpage=1#comment-5025 Glenn Williams Sat, 14 Jan 2012 08:50:57 +0000 http://www.billdwhite.com/wordpress/?p=296#comment-5025 Really well put together, thanks glenn tinylion development uk Really well put together,

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