It's been a long time since I've used Linux on a daily basis. Back in those days, my development tools were vim, make, and CVS. I ran an early free version of Red Hat with the best windowing manager there was at the time: FVWM. My browser was Netscape, my multi-protocol IM client was the text-based CenterICQ, and my mail client was Pine running inside of Screen. (My cell phone was a big plastic Nextel clamshell which the IT guys called the construction worker phone.

Here's something all ActionScript 3 developers should know about extending classes and how parent constructors are called: If class B extends class A, does class B have to call super() in its constructor in order to instantiate the parent class? Nope. What happens if you don't? The compiler inserts a call to the constructor for you. Usually. The compiler just looks to see if you call super() at any point in your constructor. What if that call is inside of a conditional statement that evaluates to false?

We just released Apprise 1.1 with several new features: In addition to AIM and Twitter, now you can share posts via email, as well. Post links directly to Facebook, Delicious, Digg, Newsvine, MySpace, Google Bookmarks, and Windows Live Bookmarks. Smart topics. Only posts containing specific keywords will show up in your smart topics. Configurable notifications.