Monthly Archives: February 2007

Adobe MAX conference dates announced

This years Adobe MAX conference is happening in Chicago, September 30th – October 3th. Interesting to note is that there will finally be a European MAX conference this year in Barcelona, Spain. With all the exciting technologies Adobe has lined up for this year I really look forward to attending! (via Matt Chotin)

Flex Data Services for the masses

Flex Data Services is an interesting product slowly finding its way into the market place though I have to admit I haven’t gotten many project proposals in that want to go down this route yet. There are obvious benefits to the technology particularly for those coming from a Java background and starting to use Flex read more »

Comedy Casino Cup

This is just too good not to blog, Phillipe Geubels in Comedy Casino Cup. This guy is an absolute comedy genius! Probably won’t make all that much sense for those of you that don’t understand any Dutch though ;)

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What would you do with Apollo?

I’d be interested to hear what people have in mind when they get their hands on Apollo — over the last few weeks and months have been planning out some things I would like to do with it. Roughly speaking I see Apollo apps break down into one of the following three categories.

Thoughts on a Jaxtr API

I’ve had one of the Jaxtr engineers contact me a little while back but unfortunately lost their contact details so thought I’d blog some of my thoughts on a Jaxtr API that would allow you to use the voice mail service as a means for audio commenting on a blog.

Super Mario – Live on Stage

Gotta love the idea! :D (via mattie)

Scorpio is top notch

I just got back from seeing Ben Forta’s sneak peek session on Scorpio in Brussels — and I can honestly say it rocks! Believe we were the first over in Europe to publicly see the demo’s and there’s some very very exciting stuff in there. I won’t spoil the fun by revealing everything we saw read more »

Twitter API

Twitter has rapidly become my new addiction — its a really cool way to stay in touch with friends and if you turn off text message notification and use something like twitterific I’ve found it is actually quite usable. One thing I just don’t get is the AS2 and AS3 libraries they released, instead of read more »

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Crossbreeding Web and Desktop

Eric Dolecki has an interesting post up with his thoughts on Apollo and a perspective on developers coming from different backgrounds. It prompted me to share my thoughts on this evolution and how I see this new type of application impacting the end user. In a way its been the constraints web developers have had read more »

Papervision3D tutorial

The guys over at BLITZ have a great tutorial up on Papervision3D — if you haven’t heard about this project before (where have you been?) its an open source high performance Flash 3D rendering engine currently supporting ASE and Collada formats, texture mapping and many more goodies. Be sure to check out the demo’s and read more »

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