02 May
I wanted to announce the birth of my second child, this time a daughter - Delaney Ann Hall was born on April 27th at 6:38am. She weighed 8lbs 14oz and was 21.5 inches long. She is amazing and joins her big brother Owen,…
01 May
Adobe and Industry Leaders Establish Open Screen Project. Have a look at the new OSP website and listen to CTO Kevin Lynch.“The Open Screen Project is dedicated to driving consistent rich Internet experiences across…
30 Apr
I really enjoyed watching Clay Shirky’s talk on Cognitive Surplus at the Web 2.0 Expo last week. He does such a good job at explaining how and why watching TV is no longer the de-facto spare time activity that I’m going…
29 Apr
I got my feedback from FITC already ( they are on the ball. ) and I got a nice 9.20 overall. Yipeeeeee!!! Thanks again for anyone who commented - its nice to get constructive feedback and really helps the presenters- n…
22 Apr
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The writing habit has kicked in after a few forum posts and lengthy emails. This inevitable result means I need something long and preferably technical to write about for a while. Since I’ve just come from the…
20 Apr
The ColdFusion Weekly Podcast,hosted by Matt Woodward, has a new episode. The topic this time is FlexFrameworks, and I am on it! I talk about the soon-to-be-released Mateframework and my presentation at cf.Objective(),…
If you hadn’t already heard, the Mobile and Devices Business Unit is joining the Experience and Technology group at Adobe. Among the many pros and cons of this “merger” of collective mind power and ideas, I can…
19 Apr
We just had a small discussion on the Papervision3D list about using vague objects with untyped properties passed to methods as a single argument, rather than setting multiple arguments strongly typed and how that…
x300 w/ ubuntu Originally uploaded by sogrady As previously discussed, thanks to the mind attentions of a couple of the folks from Lenovo, I’ve managed to get my hands on one of the new Thinkpad X300’s for a few…
Finally I have a bit of free time to write down this post. Some days ago a guy on the forum asked about how to evaluate at runtime simple mathematical expressions with support for symbols and function calls.Now that the…
18 Apr
I am very excited that once more I have the honor to talk at this year’s FITC conference in Toronto. Looking at the program I can see that the next days will not allow for a lot of sleep - Shawn Pucknell has once again…
17 Apr
Whilst working today in Flex Builder we all did an update on SVN and all of a sudden we all had the same error. Description:An internal build error has occurred. Right-click for more information. Location:Unknown So o…
So, I have been attempting to port some of my older AIR applications to 1.0 recently. While trying to get one of my apps running today I kept receiving the following error when testing (publishing in debug mode):***…
16 Apr
I was doing a bunch of Flex work for the past few months, and get really comfortable with Flex Builder. There are so many awesome features to aid development it simply kicks ass. However, my current project is Flash…
As I’m back from 360Flexconference in Milan, I’m working on our side project which was done in Sandy. Now I’m trying to convert it to Papervision because of speed. I have to confess I didn’t expect it would be…
15 Apr
Jens C Brynildsen has published a nice review of SWF2Go Professional. He discusses how a total newbie to mobile development can start using Flash Lite with SWF2Go.SWF2Go is a really niche product that proves the size…
I have a couple of presentations coming up soon, and I haven’t been getting word out as much as I probably should have.At the end of May I’ll be speaking at the Webmaniacs conference in Washington D.C. (May 19-23).…
ReadWriteWeb reports that traffic analyst Hitwise is saying that YouTube now has a market share in the video sector of 73.18%.Traffic analysts Hitwise released new numbers today indicating that while online video sites…
Develop and extend a customizable video player that updates dynamically with XML data.
14 Apr
I think people are missing some of the head nods in Russell’s post about him stopping his experiment called Mowser. ZDNet cracks me up. They jump on the story making it sound like it is an epiphany that some well…
As summer approaches, I start thinking about family vacation time. Escaping from the city to some relaxing spot with semi-wilderness. Playing lots of games with the kids.One of our favorite games is Mastermind. We…
I’ve heard of the term, iAccelerator, before but never cared to look further until today when I read an article from Tarun about this YCombinator style Summer Startup Camp.iAccelerator is an IIM Ahmedabad initiative…
So right after the onAIR train tour I got on a plane to Dubai. I had absolutely no idea on what to expect from Dubai but I gotta tell you… Dubai is totally overwhelming! The architecture in Dubai is amazing and the…
08 Apr
Today, Adobe’s Flash Player team introduced the new public bug and issue tracking system. This replaces the old wishform where you submitted bugs and enhancement requests but could not track the issue’s progress. The…
I’m currently in a hotel room in London getting ready for the last stop on the first leg of the on AIR Tour Europe. Yesterday in Brussels I built a cool little AIR application that allows you to download YouTube FLV…
While CNN covers presidential campaigns, news about the Flash Player election is sadly being lost. Polls are open and candidates are sitting there hoping for your vote. Write-in candidates are already lurking in the…
I am currently traveling through Europe as part of the European leg of the on AIR Tour (just wrapped up the Brussels event). The events have been great thus far, and the attendance and reactions have been very positive.…
07 Apr
JSFL makes me bang my head on the desk sometimes. Don’t get me wrong, JSFL is useful. I’ve been using it for some time now to partially automate builds for Flash CS3 FLA-based components. I can create component…
Via Symbian-Freak, a new firmware upgrade for the Nokia N82 is on the way which will include Flash Lite 3.0 and WRTLocation tagging functionality addedWidgets enabledFlash Lite 3.0 supportBT AVRCP protocol…
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