Anyone who has used Firebug for developing web pages knows how good it is. Lately I find myself using it for checking style cascades and trying out certain styles “on the fly”. Below are a list of links to Firebug and some of the equivalent tools for other browsers:

• Firefox: Firebug
• Safari: Web Inspector
• Opera: Opera Developer Tools
• Internet Explorer: Microsoft Developer Toolbar

Google Chrome has developer tools built into it, which is nice

There are some very generous souls out there on the interweb thingy, and one of them has offered up a solution on how to make a very nifty TabNavigator. Take a look at this link for details.

As much as I have enjoyed the freedom of working on my own projects, the sporadic nature of payment and the huge overhead of writing specifications and proposals does take the fun out a little. For now, I am going to do some slightly more consistent work by taking on a contract at a large company in the Netherlands. More »

This weekend I revisited the Cairngorm MVC structure ready for use in the Zentrack project. I went back to the excellent set of articles written by Steven Webster at the Adobe devnet site and read through a Flex 3 PDF version too. As part of my work for DPD I created a prototype front end, which I have now started re-factoring into a Cairngorm structure. I plan to release the code in approximately one week.

There are a lot of tutorials for Cairngorm already on the web, so I don’t feel the need to reiterate someone elses good work. Instead, when I release the code for Zentrack (Liger) I’ll point out any of the tricky problems I solved that may be of use to others.