Archive for June, 2008

  • Saving Twitter in Three Easy Steps

    Saving Twitter in Three Easy Steps

    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....

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  • RIAJobs.org launched!

    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...

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  • Kevin Lynch live in concert

    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...

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  • Adobe Feeds Firefox Search Plugin

    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!...

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  • Getting an AIR certificate

    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...

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  • Scotch on the Rocks review

    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...

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  • Scotch on the Rocks presentations

    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...

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  • Scotch on the Rocks 2008

    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...

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  • The Future of Mobile Experience

    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...

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