Gaia Framework for Adobe Flash and other links…
The Gaia Framework for Adobe Flash runs inside of Adobe Flash. This may be “obvious” to some kid designer with a five-o’clock shadow but was not plain to me until I saw the download in MXP format. This is an interesting way for well-meaning and enterprising developers to treat Adobe like Google: a start-up can build a very popular open source product that Adobe now has the option to buy.
“The 5 Best Firebug Extensions”
Adam DuVander: “Firebug extensions are a sort of meta-extension that lets you add on to Firebug. Developers are adding some features that we’re starting to find hard to live without.”
“Moffett Field becoming a country club airport for Valley ultra-rich”
This story from valleywag.com, “Moffett Field becoming a country club airport for Valley ultra-rich,” reminds me to drag out and dust off my other wacko conspiracy theory that air travel for us commoners is worse these days because the “ultra-rich” don’t have to fly commercial carriers. The market can “decide” anything when it is in control of a proud few…
“One Yahoo’s ten reasons for leaving”
A Yahoo employee via valleywag.com: “It take 10 meetings to agree on something and eventually, the project got scrap or delayed for another 10 weeks…” Almost every “mature” American company ends up like this… except for Ben & Jerry’s Homemade Holdings, Inc.…
Today’s word: “Externality”
Wikipedia.org: “In economics, an externality is an impact on any party not directly involved in an economic decision. An externality occurs when an economic activity causes external costs or external benefits to third party stakeholders who cannot directly affect an economic transaction.”