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  • I’m auctioning שָׁלוֹם.com for Haiti disaster relief

    I’m auctioning שָׁלוֹם.com for Haiti disaster relief

    When 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...

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  • Why you should attend Flash and the City

    Why you should attend Flash and the City

    There’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...

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  • AS3 Signals – the best thing since sliced bread

    AS3 Signals – the best thing since sliced bread

    If 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...

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  • The black box that is the Flash Player

    The black box that is the Flash Player

    This 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...

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  • Getting StartED with CSS

    Getting StartED with CSS

    A 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...

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  • I’m an Adobe Community Professional

    I’m an Adobe Community Professional

    Today 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...

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  • Google search suggestions

    Google search suggestions

    This is what Google suggested to me as search queries earlier today.

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  • The future of the Flash Player

    The future of the Flash Player

    I 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...

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  • Review – Coders at Work

    Review – Coders at Work

    I’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...

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  • India’s new visa policy of terror

    India’s new visa policy of terror

    As 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...

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