I don’t think I’m alone in seeing Twitter‘s service deteriorate to the point where euthanasia seems like the only humane option. Without any obvious intimate knowledge of how the service is architected, these are my three easy steps to hunt and kill the fail whale.
Monthly Archives: June 2008
RIAJobs.org launched!
I’m really happy to finally be able to announce a project I’ve been working on for a little while now — www.riajobs.org. A job board targeted at Rich Internet Application developers from various backgrounds be it Flash, Flex, AJAX or Silverlight. Of course there are already great community resources available for those looking for Flash, read more
Kevin Lynch live in concert
“In case it wasn’t clear already, you’re now watching Kevin Lynch live in concert. This isn’t just one track. No, this is a video of the entire live Kevin Lynch concert at Paradiso – Main Hall.” http://www.fabchannel.com/kevin_lynch_concert/ That made me laugh, remember being at Spark Europe in October 2005, the last Macromedia conference read more
Adobe Feeds Firefox Search Plugin
Now that the old MXNA is back up and has been revamped as Adobe Feeds I had a good excuse to create a Firefox search plugin for it. If you’re a Firefox user you can install the plugin by clicking on the button below. Enjoy!
Getting an AIR certificate
In case you didn’t know Adobe is running a great program where they offer you a free one year certificate with Thawte for signing your Adobe AIR applications (worth 300 USD) — the only thing you need to do is submit your unsigned AIR application to the AIR Marketplace and be among one of the read more
Scotch on the Rocks review
… or a look at ColdFusion from a Flash/Flex developers perspective. I just got back from four days in beautiful Edinburgh for an event I would likely not have attended were it not that I was invited to speak there. Scotch on the Rocks is one of barely a handful of what I’d call real read more
Scotch on the Rocks presentations
I just finished my last talk here at Scotch on the Rocks and thought I’d go ahead and blog my presentation slides and code. RIA meets Desktop First session I did was “RIA meets Desktop“, a look at some of the common API’s in Adobe AIR (network detection, windowing, drag ‘n drop, clipboard etc.) read more
Scotch on the Rocks 2008
Just got back from London for the first teach date of my Core ActionScript 3.0 course at Skills Matter and in a matter of days I’ll be heading out to Edinburgh along with Nico Lierman for Scotch on the Rocks. This is going to be an interesting conference for sure, for one thing I haven’t read more
The Future of Mobile Experience
Thomas Joos has an interesting blog post highlighting some of the opportunities and hurdles of the mobile ecosystem and opens it up for discussion. I have to agree that one of the most pressing issues here in Belgium is affordable data rates, hope the introduction of the iPhone will make providers look at offering better read more