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I’m auctioning שָׁלוֹם.com for Haiti disaster relief
Posted on January 25, 2010 | No CommentsWhen Internationalized Domain Names became available last year, I jumped on the bandwagon and registered a couple. One of these is שָׁלוֹם.com (Shalom as written in Hebrew). I’ve not done anything with it since and thought it would be a good way to raise money... -
Why you should attend Flash and the City
Posted on January 25, 2010 | 1 CommentThere’s another new conference coming this year and thats always exciting, but Flash and the City promises to be different. Not only is this the first major Flash conference in NYC in quite a while, its going to be an amazing opportunity to network and... -
AS3 Signals – the best thing since sliced bread
Posted on January 22, 2010 | 8 CommentsIf you haven’t heard about Robert Penner’s AS3 Signals yet, you’re missing out. Until yesterday I had only briefly looked at the project but after John Lindquist’s video tutorial I’m completely sold on the idea and look forward to using it in my projects. So... -
The black box that is the Flash Player
Posted on January 21, 2010 | 7 CommentsThis morning I read an interesting blog post by John Dowdell highlighting some things that bothered me in the last week or so (and talked about on twitter). We’ve been seeing some sensationalist headlines on tech blogs like “Open Source JavaScript to Replace Flash?” without... -
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... -
I’m an Adobe Community Professional
Posted on January 19, 2010 | 5 CommentsToday one of Adobe’s community programs previously known as “Adobe Community Experts” got rebranded to “Adobe Community Professionals“. This was long needed to avoid naming conflicts with other people using the ACE acronym such as the “Adobe Certified Experts“. I’m also glad to report I’ve... -
Google search suggestions
Posted on January 15, 2010 | 3 CommentsThis is what Google suggested to me as search queries earlier today. -
The future of the Flash Player
Posted on January 13, 2010 | 14 CommentsI think many will agree that 2010 is going to be the year of mobile and devices. With Android becoming a serious contender and Apple reportedly coming out with some innovative new hardware its no surprise to me that there’s a lot of buzz around... -
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... -
India’s new visa policy of terror
Posted on January 8, 2010 | No CommentsAs many of you will know by now — I have been in the process of setting up a business in India with colleagues for the last few months and am now back in Belgium for the holidays. While in Pondicherry in December there were...


