Free and Open Source Icon sets

Found a free and open source silk icons set that is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 which you can use for design purposes. famfamfam Silk (The name is a bit weird ).

Google closure compiler

Google recently release Closure Compiler service (labs version)

use for optimising a few simple functions in the service’s web UI for JavaScript.

You can try to execute JavaScript for optimisation, check for warning and error, compressed into small files, see what is the post data looks like and more. Of course, this sort of thing can be easily done with Firebug but FireBug still lacks some features such as JavaScript file compress and a feature of “how not to program this way”.
It is worth to check it out.

Unable to extract trial version of Flex Builder 3

Recently, i wanted to try out to install Flex Builder 3 from Adobe website and after successfully downloaded the file i was unable to extract the files. It came out this error “Please select another location to extract the installer”.

I checked the hard drive and i have more than 10gb spaces in all my drives. I kept getting the error no matter what. I clear my Windows temp folders, tried in different OS such as XP and vista. I also tried to disable my firewall and remove my anti-virus software.None of them is working. I suspected that the downloaded file have been corrupted.

Oh yea. I forgot to mention that i have downloaded the file in my office. Apparently, the package i have downloaded have been scanned through proxy and Inter-scan anti-virus checked. That’s why the files get corrupted even i downloaded the Flex SDK packages. So, i went to my friend place and re-downloaded the files. All have been working fine without any errors.

So my conclusion is that, if you have the same error and tried the Adobe troubleshoot, and none of the steps above worked for you, you might try to re-download the packages from different computer or proxy, virus scan free.

Check out some of the solutions here :

http://forums.adobe.com/thread/85013

http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/858/f8582407.html

Melbourne Barcamp 2009

Just went back from 2 days Melbourne Barcamp 2009 held at UrbanCamp. It was very fun, interesting, learn a lot of new ideas, moon and mars colonisation and more. The events is free and thanks to the sponsorships.

Here are the lists that i have attended during the 2 days events
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Day 1 (Saturday)
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1. How Internet works – A talk about Border Gateway Protocol, wireless station around melbourne, ISP and network stuff.
2. Toonlet – Comics for blogger.
3. GEO location stuff – things like Google Latitude and etc.
3. The Seven Day Game – Python Game development in 7 days.
4. Social Media 2.0
5. ITIL Problem Management – IT Governance.
6. Zing workshop – Multi-interaction with wireless keyboard to contribute ideas to prevent next bushfire.

Day 2 (Sunday)
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1. Introduction to GIT
2. Facebook privacy stalking 2.0 – (Facebook FQL) – A very cool and interesting topics.
3. Colonisation of the Moon and Mars
4. Amateur Radio
5. JavaScript secrets
6. 12 Deadly MySQL sins – The danger of sql injections and so on.
7. A Short Story about PHP Profiling & Optimisation

Some of the photos during the events.
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(Photo will be upload soon)

Melbourne BarCamp 2009

Wohoo..Melbourne Barcamp 2009 are coming in September 2009. Went to the Stixcamp 2009 before and it was fantastic and cool. Hope this coming technology events will be the same. Don’t forget to register which due on 12th-13th September at UrbanCamp, Royal Park, Melbourne, Australia (not far from Melbourne Zoo). Here is the list of schedule during the day.

Melbourne Barcamp 2009