Author Archives: Fuad Kamal

About Fuad Kamal

principal & senior architect, Anaara Media LLC

Adobe MAX & the Department of Energy

Posted on August 4, 2011 by Fuad Kamal

Recently the Department of Energy approved submitting the Recovery Dashboard for the Adobe MAX awards. As part of that they put up a demo video of the dashboard: As a solution for tracking billions of dollars over a diverse set … Continue reading →

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seeking flex developers for high profile dashboard project

Posted on October 21, 2010 by Fuad Kamal

We have been working on a dashboard RIA at the Department of Energy since last December. The goal of the dashboard is to enable the government to track where all that recovery money is going, how and when it is … Continue reading →

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Why Adobe should develop Flash Player for Jailbroken iOS devices

Posted on September 25, 2010 by Fuad Kamal

It seems a pretty consistent trend that Apple incorporates features developed on/for jailbroken devices into future versions of iOS. It’s almost as if they actually monitor the jailbreaking scene and say, ‘hm, folks seem to want these features enough to … Continue reading →

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review: TwelveSouth BookArc for iPad

Posted on June 24, 2010 by Fuad Kamal

I just received and started using TwelveSouth’s stand for the iPad, BookArc. In short, it looks really cool, which is an obvious selling point. In use though, at first I was a bit dismayed, as when the iPad sits up … Continue reading →

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An Open Letter to Oakley.com

Posted on June 7, 2010 by Fuad Kamal

Dear Oakley.com, I spent many hours in the mall in Columbia, Maryland, this weekend, trying to buy a pair of prescription eyeglasses. I started with the Oakley store, where I picked out the frames I wanted. I had actually decided … Continue reading →

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How not to frag your Flex Team (or ‘How to prevent . actionScriptProperties and other files from getting checked into SVN)

Posted on April 26, 2010 by Fuad Kamal

The situation: you wake up one morning and update your flash builder project, only to get an error message saying there is a conflict in .actionScriptProperties. Images of the rap video Who Broke the Build suddenly rise up out of … Continue reading →

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Capital Flash Camp 2010 : A brief recap

Posted on April 16, 2010 by Fuad Kamal

I attended Flash Camp in DC today and though I would share my initial impressions, given that we were at 360 Flex not too long ago and a lot of attention is being given to the upcoming Flash & the … Continue reading →

Posted in ActionScript, Adobe, Design, Flash, Flash Catalyst, Flex, Flex 3 -> Flex 4 Migration, Flex 4, Illustrator, Photoshop, RIA, Software Architecture, UXD, Wireframing | 3 Comments

in review: ‘Crush It!’ by @garyvee

Posted on April 15, 2010 by Fuad Kamal

If you’re already on top of social media, using LinkedIn, twitter, Flickr, blogging, etc., and if you already have a terrific work ethic and do what you love, this book has absolutely nothing to offer you. Well, Gary is an … Continue reading →

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Two-way Data Binding in Flex 4

Posted on April 7, 2010 by Fuad Kamal

In Flex 3 we created a data binding expression using curly braces, like so: <TextInput label="textInput1" /> <TextInput label="textInput2" text="{textInput1.text}" /> In Flex 3 if you wanted to make the binding two-way, you had to make a second binding expression. … Continue reading →

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would the REAL iPhone killer please stand up?

Posted on February 15, 2010 by Fuad Kamal

Certain defenders of Apple’s stance on excluding the Flash platform from Mobile Safari, such as Daring Fireball have been trying to flip the argument, saying that Flash is an outdated technology, the concept of browser plugins is outdated, and that … Continue reading →

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