Monday, May 26th, 2008
Tomorrow starts a new phase for me. I finished up at Georgia Tech last Friday, and now I will be working from home. Like any other developer, I have done a great deal of work at home - but that is drastically different from working from home. Any tips from the home [...]
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Tuesday, May 20th, 2008
The Adobe Developer Connection is creating a newsletter, similar to the EDGE newsletter, but specifically focused on RIA’s and RIA technologies. This new newsletter is called the RIA Buzz. The first issue has not yet been released, but they are accepting sign-ups right now.
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Tuesday, May 20th, 2008
I had a very busy week last week while I was on-site with a client. When this happens - one thing really suffers - my blog reading. When I returned home, I had nearly 1500 entries waiting to be read. This is one of the disadvantages of Google Reader now displaying the [...]
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Tuesday, May 20th, 2008
I just posted my write-up of the interview I had with Mitch Grasso, CEO of SlideRocket, on InsideRIA.com. This article also includes some invites if you hurry and check it out.
An Interview with SlideRocket
AIR, Flex |
Monday, May 19th, 2008
I don’t travel all the time. However, there are times when I am the lone developer on a project and I have to setup shop in a hotel room for a week or so. I also have a nasty little secret - when I go on trips like this, I go to WalMart [...]
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Saturday, May 10th, 2008
Greg Wilson of Adobe just blogged about the new Fedex Desktop application. He makes some great points and highlights some of the uses of AIR within the application. Check it out below:
Here Comes the Real AIR Apps - Greg Wilson
AIR |
Friday, May 9th, 2008
I have spent almost two year’s at Georgia Tech’s Savannah campus, and I have gained a lot of experience in my time there. I turned in my resignation today, because I am becoming a full-time Flex and AIR Consultant. I already have some great projects lined up in the next months, and I [...]
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Thursday, May 8th, 2008
I had an AIR application that I was developing for a client around the time AIR 1.0 was released. This was a custom chrome application. When I profiled and tested the application I was less than impressed with the processor utilization. Actually, I was less than impressed with the processor utilization of [...]
AIR, Uncategorized |
Monday, May 5th, 2008
Adobe Evangelist Serge Jespers has a great overview of the Flex Component Kit for Flash CS3 on his site. He walks the user through the process of creating a Flex component from the FLVPlayback component in Flash CS3. I agree with Serge that the component kit has a lot of power - and [...]
Flash, Flex |
Friday, May 2nd, 2008
Shell scripts are great (of course - this is only going to work if you are on a Linux server). This script should also preserve plug-ins and themes (assuming that you keep data in the standard directories).
Wordpress |