Category Archives: Software Architecture

Capital Flash Camp 2010 : A brief recap

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

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review: Creating Visual Experiences with Flex 3.0 by Juan Sanchez & Andy McIntosh

The short version: Juan & Andy rock, Addison Wesley SUCKS. Continue reading

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Adobe MAX ’08 Sneak Peaks on Flickr

I just posted my photos of the Sneak Peeks session from San Francisco to Flickr from Lightroom 2 using Jeffrey Friedl’s plug-in again (how useful it is!). The sneak peeks (and other general sessions) opened with a video DJ performance … Continue reading

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Unconference Schedules @ MAX

It would have been nice if we had more information about the unconferences ahead of time, so we could have planned what to attend around our sessions and labs. Nowhere that I know of were the schedules posted except at … Continue reading

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MAX Sneak Peeks

Check my twitter (@abunur) for up to minute updates on the Sneak Peeks. I will post the images here later.

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The fate of Saffron (AS3 UML modeling tool)

We had been waiting with baited breath last year for Saffron to come out…even a beta…and lately I had been wondering what ever happened to it…all links to Saffron come up with at 404… seems Microsoft got in the way. … Continue reading

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Mercedes Benz USA Flex 3 Site Launched

It’s an ecstatic day for us here at Anaara Media as mbusa.com went live this morning. It has been a tremendous effort for our team, the in-house team at Mercedes in New Jersey, and also Yakov Fain and Valerie Silaev … Continue reading

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Breaking out of the ‘page-centric’ web

I was recently forwarded a link to a “New Fandangled” Flex Web E-commerce site. After spending a few minutes of precious project time going through the site, one thought kept going through my head… ‘why did they develop this in … Continue reading

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New Version of Cairngorm

OK, so according to Adobe Consulting they are making some significant changes to Cairngorm. Steven said that Cairngorm worked very well for SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) but not as well for Data Oriented Architecture. All they would say at this … Continue reading

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Adobe Max Day 1 | Adobe Consulting, Flex, WebOrb, embedded Fonts, Kung Fu and THERMO!!!

I spent over an hour tonight with Steven Webster and the entire Adobe Consulting team having a very candid discussion. I also spoke with the CEO of WebOrb who had emailed back and forth a bit with our team back … Continue reading

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