Thanks for the FREE Photoshop CS3

I just got notified by Adobe that I am entitled to receive Photoshop CS3 for free as a reward of being a good beta tester of the product. CS3 has solid improvements over previous versions, I have been working with Photoshop since 3.0.5 back in 1995, CS3 so far is the biggest version advance.

The news comes just right before I almost decided to buy the upgrade ... I almost did, great timing! Thank you Adobe!

ASDoc Browser is Born

Browsing javadoc and asdoc could be painful to me after I get so used to Microsoft's MSDN, features such as a tree-like Table of Contents(TOC), index and search (on client side) makes life so much easier. Even though Adobe has its own implementation with Flex Builder, it is slow and buggie, so one night I decided to write one on my own, and I also take this chance to learn about Apollo.

So AsDoc Browser v.02 is out, I spent some time learning how Asdoc is generated, and majority of my time is spent on figuring out how to generate the TOC by parsing through the html documents. I also find the Regular Expression (which is a bit new to me) on Flex is a little different from those in JavaScript as well as .NET, thus I have decided to write a small tool to assist my Regex experiment.

A Periodic Table of Visualization Methods

At the first glance I thought it was a rip-off and plank of Visualization methods, an accidental mouse over proved that the site is an excellent encyclopedia of all visualization methods, solute to those who spent time and effort categorizing and visualizing .

Link: http://www.visual-literacy.org/periodic_table/periodic_table.html