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Archive for July, 2008
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Ely Greenfield talks about Flex “Gumbo”
Posted on July 25, 2008 | 1 CommentThere are some interesting things happening for the next release of Flex. If you were at one of the MAX conferences last year you might have already seen Ely Greenfield talk about the Flex roadmap, now there’s a video about Flex “Gumbo” up on Adobe... -
“Meet the Guru” Training
Posted on July 12, 2008 | No CommentsI’m excited to be partnering up with Comtaste for their “Meet the Guru” training sessions starting this October in London. October 13-15th, I’ll be doing a three day course on “Programming ActionScript 3 for Flex 3“, covering everything you’ll need to get started with ActionScript... -
TWiT Live Desktop 1.5
Posted on July 11, 2008 | 32 CommentsI was amazed at the amount of positive feedback I got yesterday when Leo Laporte published the little twitlive.tv AIR application on his blog. Decided to address some of the excellent suggestions that were coming in and spent another hour or so working on it... -
TwitLive AIR application
Posted on July 10, 2008 | 44 CommentsLast Sunday afternoon I was listening to The Tech Guy on twitlive.tv and when I accidentally closed its tab one too many times decided to quickly make an AIR app for it to have it available as a desktop application. It literally took me 11... -
Confirmation that I kick ass
Posted on July 9, 2008 | 2 CommentsNice one, found out a week or so ago that this blog has been aggregated on the Rich Internet Applications category on alltop.com, Guy Kawasaki‘s latest project. Its quite an accomplishment and am rather proud to be sharing the stage with several of the big... -
Ryan Stewart’s Flex SEO Contest
Posted on July 7, 2008 | 2 CommentsI’m very happy to see Ryan Stewart from Adobe taking my concerns on board with regards to Flash content SEO and launching the “Flex SEO Contest“. Its not been particularly fun being the whiney guy continuously talking about issues with SWF indexing. At the very... -
Update on SWF Indexing Issues
Posted on July 6, 2008 | 23 CommentsAfter Tuesday’s announcement about SWF now getting fully indexed I thought I’d do a little experiment and put up a few test SWF files. Its difficult to accurately deduct what exactly is happening but thought I’d write down what I’ve tried and what the results... -
Linux Flash Player 10
Posted on July 4, 2008 | 2 CommentsWas interested to read that in the latest Flash Player 10 beta refresh a number of issues have been fixed that were real showstoppers for Linux users. Most notably webcam support has always been problematic, which meant that that devices like the Nokia N800, the... -
RIA Weekly Podcast
Posted on July 4, 2008 | 2 CommentsI’m very excited about the RIAJobs.org project now sponsoring on one of my all time favorite podcasts! RIA Weekly is a (somewhat weekly) podcast with Michael Coté from Redmonk and Ryan Stewart, Platform Evangelist at Adobe, and the occasional guest. If you’re at all into... -
The Quest for the Perfect Twitter Client
Posted on July 2, 2008 | 4 CommentsOver the months I have tried numerous Twitter clients and few have survived my wrath. Twitter has for me largely taken over from email and IM for staying in touch with colleagues, family and friends. Working with the constraint of 140 characters also tends to...