Category Archives: General

Update on the giveaway

  [update] Thanks to Powerflasher we now also have a license for FDT 3.1 Enterprise edition for one lucky winner!   I’m happy to say that thanks to the friendly folks at Adobe I’ve now got two licenses of Flex Builder 3 Professional to give away! So, don’t hesitate – record a video comment, right read more »

Five years of blogging giveaway

I never thought I’d keep anything up for this long but today is the 5th anniversary of this blog! That comes to 383 posts (or an average of about 1.4 posts a week), 1482 comments/trackbacks and some 65.188 pieces of spam. Back in 1994 I had about 360 hits a month whereas now its grown read more »

TWiT Live Desktop 1.5

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 »

Confirmation that I kick ass

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 »

Update on SWF Indexing Issues

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.

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.  

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!    

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 »

2M08 in review

What can you say about 2M08? Its amazing how fast the conference has grown up in just a few years. Koen, Wouter and the rest of the team did an outstanding job and with the help of the sponsors made it an event that you can easily compare to many of the well known international read more »

2M08 Flash Lite Mobile Guide

Thomas Joos has done it again, after doing one for FITC Amsterdam and Toronto this time he has worked on a Flash Lite mobile guide for 2M08. I’ve just been playing around with the app and its really useful, you get an overview of the conference schedule, a map of the venue, information about the read more »

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