Archive for AS 1.0
September 21, 2008 at 8:03 am · Filed under AS 1.0, London, Tools
The weather in London was perfect this weekend (about 65 deg F, sunny, and crisp) and, as sometimes happens during these brief interludes, the local Gail’s bakery overflowed out onto the passageway in front of their shop. Other merchants joined them and suddenly there was a mini-food-fair on the way to the usual Saturday errands.
My favorite discovery was the German Deli and I sampled the “echte deutsche Wurst mit Sauerkraut” — the best brat this side of the Channel Tunnel! They were promoting their shops in Burrough Market and Islington. After googling the address, I discovered two important things:
1. The Islington store is not far from work
2. Google maps now offers walking directions
If you need good walking directions, go to http://local.google.co.uk
If you need good bratwurst, go to http://www.germandeli.co.uk
Guten Appetit!
(beer)
May 9, 2008 at 6:15 am · Filed under AS 1.0, Books, Device Central, Devices, Flash, Mobile
The World Time and Temperature application is now available for download. It’s designed to work with any mobile device that has a screen size of 240w x 320h. Enjoy!
April 14, 2008 at 6:20 am · Filed under AS 1.0, Device Central, Flash
While testing my time and temperature application, I’ve discovered a bug related to time zone offset. The left half of the image above is a screen shot from Device Central and it’s showing the correct offset value in minutes (offset is the difference between local time and Greenwich Mean Time or GMT).
The screen shot at right was taken from my Nokia N73 using the same Flash Lite test file. The problem is that my N73 shows the offset as -60. This also throws off the rest of my display times because their calculation is based on the offset value.
I could ignore what I see in Device Central and multiply the offset value by -1 in code to reverse the negative and positive offset values. But I wonder if this will work for all devices? If you have any experience with this problem, please feel free to send an email to liz–at–myersdesign–dot–com.
Thank you.
