Monthly Archives: October 2007

HP Print Studio RIA live, Pronto! AIR beta

HP Print Studio, a flex application I was technical lead on, went live. It was a pretty cool project, with a rather large group of developers. There was a significant amount of flex/flash integration, which you will be able to … Continue reading

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A Fighter’s Heart

I’m over half-way done reading A Fighter’s Heart: One Man’s Journey Through the World of Fighting by Sam Sheridan, a Harvard grad who decided to try his hand at MMA. I thought I would try to google up the video … Continue reading

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sony ericsson s500i flash lite, leopard, After Effects

OK, I just got a Sony Ericsson s500i yesterday, I got it because it seemed like a really decent phone, had no idea it’s OS was Flash Lite until I just happened to see Scott Janosek’s blog post on MXNA, … Continue reading

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Best Quote from MAX

If there is one sentence that I would want to quote from MAX, it would be when Kevin Lynch, Adobe’s senior vice president and chief software architect, having just shown the Halo 3 “Believe” interactive flash site in his keynote … Continue reading

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Optimizing Compile Times in Flex Builder – Gems from MAX

The background: we’re working on a huge application with .Net on the back end, WebOrb in the middle, and Flex front end. We are also using Cairngorm, which actually I’ve used on EVERY flex project since I first started developement … Continue reading

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New AIR Video on Labs

this reminds me of the videos on the Apple web site…I mean that as a complement. http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/air/ I actually went looking for a newer version of AirPress since the one from AIRApps doesn’t work with the new AIR beta 2.

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Yahoo! Developer Network blog mentions me…

haha…I swear I asked them what they meant by ‘show me your kung fu’ and they said ‘a roundhouse kick to the head’.  Amazing how the media skews things…just like the CEO of Adobe said at the Keynote.  Here’s the … Continue reading

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MAX Day 2 | Sneak Peeks – ‘Mind Blowing’

OK today’s Sneak peek session was simply AMAZING. Changes and new stuff like we never imagined…like using C++ in FLASH! Here is my summary (full photo slideshow URL to follow): Visual Communicator Video editing for the non-video professional. They said … Continue reading

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Flex on Linux is OUT!

ok, everyone who’s been griping…go to Labs now and get it…it was just in sneak peeks at MAX and they announced they released it to Labs an hour ago.  No design view yet…early alpha.  Ofcourse, you could always just develop … Continue reading

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MAX 2007 DAY 2 KEYNOTE – top items

Ok, some urgent/time sensitive things from the keynote, you might like to know, while I sit here waiting for the SNEAK PEEKS to get started…. First of all, Adobe has a Beta application called SHARE…they are only taking a few … Continue reading

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