In a statement just issued, the FIA have decided they don't know better than the Formula 1 fans they asked and all the teams they asked over the summer break, and scrapped the 'driver with the most wins gets the world championship' idea they had.
And it turns out, they couldn't introduce the change this close to the start of the season any way.
"oops"
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The BBC have announced the details of how they will be covering the up coming Formula 1 season, and it's a sea change from what ITV dragged up.
Today Adobe released two updates to ColdFusion resources which will really help out the community.
Firstly, ColdFusion is now listed on 'Community Search' which searches all the official Adobe documentation as well as selected blogs, web pages and other non-Adobe resources. As I often find a working example from a real user more useful than a dry API doc., this is great. You can restrict the results to 'just Adobe' if you are trying to seach for things on just the DevNet or real documentation.
In a recent posting, Matt Chotin has announced that Adobe will not be using the controversial Fx-prefix in Flex, just as soon as they can back the change out.
This is great news.
I'm please to say I was invited to join the Flex SDK Community Committee, where you can find some of the best known figures in the Flex community like Ben Clinkinbeard, Tink and Doug McCune.
Together we represent some of the most visible Flex users and companies, including such names as Universal Mind and Effective UI.
Today I was writing what looked like fairly simple code to persist ~60 items in a local database using AIR, and then load them back up at application start-up.
It all worked more-or-less first time, as advertised but would take several seconds to do all 60, during which time the application would appear to be locked up.
Neither disk or CPU usage would be max'ed out during this time either, which makes it double odd.
My code looked like
If you've not seen this posting then you don't know that there is a fair chance that the UK's number one ColdFusion conference, Scotch On The Rocks, well be stopping off in Manchester during it's 2009 road trip.
If you are a ColdFusion developer and can get to Manchester for a day (and night ;-) ) you would hate to miss out, so let Andy know you could make it.
I've registered my interest directly along with a few other people, so maybe see you there if it comes off !
As I [node:1559, title="mentioned yesterday"] submitting a patch to fix a problem with the Flex SDK is a great way to get to know the framework itself better, and also see how the process works.
There isn't much too it, esp. if you are fixing a bug you found.
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Well, that was... manic :-)
There was, I think, the general admission that things could be improved - Adobe being more transparent and talking more things through in public, for instance.
It was also acknowledged that it's probably too late to try and get your pet feature into Flex 4, but it was said they'll pick up on the speed that submitted patches are accepted. Being able to submit patches is a great way to get started with a new project, because you'll normally be able to focus on a small set of functionality.
You can now play lemmings online, in JavaScript (i.e. without a browser plugin).
In other words, the virtual language running in the cross platform virtual language inside your web browser, running on top of your GUI, on top of your operating system, is as powerful as one whole Amiga.