Category: personal

Pizza in a Flash.

Dominos Pizza in Australia have deployed a Flash-based RIA (Rich internet application) for ordering. As a fan of pizza, the internet, and not having to call in to get my fix – this is way cool.

Early on in the dotcom boom, various pizza franchises created web sites for online ordering. They sucked. I think Pizza Hut promised one, but never delivered. It has been a constant bug-bear ordering pizza has been a major hassle.

So, here’s to Dominos and a satisfied customer. Both technically, and gastronomically.

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Panasonic does a deal with Connexion, specifically so you can GSM/GPRS whilst Qantas flights.

Peter Jackson to direct “The Hobbit” movie? Oh the horror!

Parallels for Mac is now at build 1910. For those who want to keep their feet in both worlds, you can run Windows XP and Vista at the same time.

Vista RC1++ (alias build 5728), the “show and shine” / “spit and polish” or most correctly, the Rule#12 “Fit and Finish” releases have started.

Microsoft Office 2007 Beta (and the followup Beta 2 Technical Release) is now available for Australians to download. Australia was missing for the first month or so.

I may have killed SVG off too soon, or at least taken an “Adobe-centric” view; and AndrewS comments that Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) and Flash is bogus. Reading some of the posts from the FlashForward Conference, the current, modern mechanism is to use SWFObject.