http://osmanu.com yet another blog about nothing...yet Fri, 04 Jul 2008 03:09:44 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It's been a while! Time flies when you have a baby. Ayaan was born on January 19 and has been keeping us busy ever since. Started a new job a few weeks ago with Aptela. They are a small company which provides business VOIP services. I am in charge of building ... http://osmanu.com/uncategorized/new-job/ I am happy to announce we have just released AIM Express 7.0 to beta! It's a web-based IM client which is going to replace the current experience on aimexpress.com. This version is flash based and utilizes the wimas3 libraries I mentioned earlier. There is no installation required, so check it ... http://osmanu.com/development/aim-express-70-is-beta/ So this has been chugging along for a couple months now, but I never got a chance to blog about it. We have been working pretty hard on an Open Source AS3 (ActionScript 3.0) library which leverages the Open AIM Web Services. We finished wimas3 a couple months ago. This ... http://osmanu.com/development/writing-aim-apps-in-flash/ First order of business: I realized that the body really should have the white background, not the sidebar. I flipped them and it looks much better. The emphasis is where it should be. Second: It's been a while since my last update, but I think I might have some material ... http://osmanu.com/development/finally-an-update/ So, Apple has released Safari for Windows into public beta. It's an interesting endeavour by Apple. I am really wondering about their business reasons behind it. Do they want more market share for Safari? Are they planning on releasing some Safari-specific functionality on their websites? Do they think Safari is ... http://osmanu.com/uncategorized/safari-for-windows/ Well, it looks like Greg found out how to turn on the black skin I was working on before we shipped AIM 6.1. It wasn't quite done yet but everyone seems to love it so I thought I would give it a mention. Follow the link to his blog for ... http://osmanu.com/uncategorized/aim-61-hidden-skin/ AIM 6.1 was launched yesterday. It has a lot of bug fixes as well as some new features, including buddy list docking and skinning. Be sure to let me know what you think about skinning (leave a comment for now). The Buddy Profile window is also cleaner, smaller and easier ... http://osmanu.com/uncategorized/aim-61-released/ I came across this interesting article on 5 ways to make crap code worse. Very entertaining, and it also gives any programmer some stuff to think about. An interesting question for me is when do you draw the line between fixing really, really ugly code and just leaving well enough alone? ... http://osmanu.com/uncategorized/how-to-make-crap-code-worse/ So Yahoo! has gone and integrated IM with mail, and it looks like they did a pretty slick job. However, from what I can tell in the video, they haven't found a solution to the big problem: bridging the gap between the desktop and the web. If the user has a ... http://osmanu.com/development/integrating-the-desktop-with-the-web/ We had the first "bad" snowstorm since I moved up here in July 2004. It snowed. Then there was sleet. All day. So basically our driveway has 2 inches of solid ice. It looks like snow until you hit it with a hammer and it barely chips. The problem is ... http://osmanu.com/uncategorized/snowed-in/