There 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 TV. Excited to see how things are shaping up!
I’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 3.0 development for your Flex-based Rich Internet Applications. Later that read more
I 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 before releasing this 1.5 build. Here’s what has changed: The read more
Last 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 lines of code and a good 15 minutes to build. read more
Nice 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 shots in the community, better keep the quality of my read more
I’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 least we’ll get people to actively start experimenting with SEO read more
After 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 are thus far.
Was 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 Eee PC and many others could not take full advantage read more
I’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 Rich Internet Applications that is definitely a podcast you’ll want read more
Over 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 make sure people get to the point which you don’t read more
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