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Getting StartED with CSS
Posted on January 20, 2010 | 1 CommentA few months ago I had the pleasure to get involved tech reviewing a book by David Powers on CSS — one of the technologies I used to work with on a daily basis before switching almost exclusively to Flash Platform development. I have to... -
Review – Coders at Work
Posted on January 9, 2010 | 2 CommentsI’ve been reading “Coders at Work” by Peter Seibel over the holidays and wanted to share my review. The book is basically a series of in-depth interviews with 15 interesting programmers including people like Brendan Eich (inventor of JavaScript), Ken Thompson (inventor of UNIX), Peter... -
Moderator AIR application
Posted on December 12, 2008 | 5 CommentsI recently found out about a very useful AIR application called “Moderator” created by Danny Dura, Platform Evangelist at Adobe. What the application does is give you access to your comment moderation queue if you’re running a WordPress blog. Installation is very easy, you first... -
Creative Suite 4 in summary
Posted on September 23, 2008 | 1 CommentIf you haven’t read up on today’s Adobe Creative Suite 4 announcement yet and still want to watch the live stream or attend a user group meeting, you might not want to read on unless you like spoilers. This is my list of favorite new... -
MIX Essentials 2008 review
Posted on April 25, 2008 | 2 CommentsI attended the MIX Essentials event in Louvain-la-Neuve this Thursday in an attempt to get some perspective on Microsoft’s roadmap for Rich Internet Applications (yes, you read that right — Internet) and Silverlight 2. Note that I’m looking at this as a Flash Platform enthusiast,... -
ActionScript 3.0 Design Patterns
Posted on November 24, 2007 | 11 CommentsI’ve been reading through O’Reilly’s “ActionScript 3.0 Design Patterns: Object Oriented Programming Techniques” by William Sanders and Chandima Cumaranatunge for the last few weeks and have to say its an incredibly useful resource. The interesting thing is that this book approaches design patterns in the... -
Flash on the Beach 07 in review
Posted on November 8, 2007 | 3 Comments“One conference to rule them all” I just got back from Flash on the Beach ’07 in Brighton – the lack of blog posts probably indicates how busy it has been between sessions, meeting up with friends and the various parties. Its hard to pinpoint... -
Adobe MAX Chicago versus Barcelona
Posted on October 22, 2007 | 1 CommentHaving been to both the Chicago and Barcelona editions of Adobe MAX, I thought it might be worth in doing a little comparison of the two in terms of location, sessions, party etc. -
Adobe Media Player on Labs
Posted on October 5, 2007 | No CommentsIn case you didn’t pick this up with all the announcements Adobe made this last week — Adobe Media Player is now available on labs.adobe.com as a prerelease product along with beta 2 of the AIR runtime. Adobe already has some content providers lined up... -
Reasons for upgrading to Creative Suite 3
Posted on March 29, 2007 | No CommentsIts safe to say that the general theme of Creative Suite 3 is “integration” and what a fantastic job they’ve done with it. In a way I see the March 27th announcement as the actual closure of the acquisition. Adobe and Macromedia tools now place...