Yep as mentioned in previous posts I have taken the last couple of days off to work on the mustang in the workshop. Wow what a nice break from the computer. Working with my hands to make/modify/fix something has always been a great experience for me. So I drilled out all the spot welds and removed the chassis. Then aligned the new Chassis rail and spent ages setting up and alinging the chassis machine. But really, what a great surprise it was to find that all the measuring I had done in my little garage, doing pretty major repairs….was all within about two mm’s. The floor was bang on!!

So I have till sunday morning to get it finished then its back to work where I have a new data acess Layer to implement in a pretty complex website. Unfortunatly Flabulator has taken a bit of a back seat at the moment, but I would really like to get a beta out there. Also have the workings of Flabthrotle, a small proxy server which takes your local host trafic and replicates it to a different port but with the bandwidth restriced to say 56k etc. This one will be kept really simple (its just a proxy server) but quite usefull me thinks. A coworker Lloyd wrote the initail code to test if pngs being created were infact interlaces (long story) but seeing it in action gave me the idea. I know there are many other products out there on the market but most are way to feature rich for my liking. I just want something really simple:

It will just be a taskbar icon with a context menu from which you tick your desired throtle amount and can set the port you want localhost traffic replicated to (at the throtled limit). Thats it! doesnt touch localhost at all…..only the traffic on the specified port.
 
With all the other talk about Sparkle out there I cant wait to have a play, but really aggree with the general consensus that it will only really be used for windows specific desktop apps. It will open up all those cool UI’s that busy developers have never commited to write for me cause its too hard. If I can get it sorted it may allow me to position my skills in a really interesting area. With flash and sparkle combined you will have Captain UI!. Flash and Macromedia will always be my fav tho. Good product great comunity with a really supportive software company!