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Custom Chrome Performance in AIR 1.0.1

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 [...]

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What in the World is CNN Doing…T-Shirts??

Friday, May 2nd, 2008

My boss pointed out the little T-Shirt icons next to some of the stories on CNN’s site. Apparently, if you see this magical icon next to a headline, you can get a t-shirt with that headline on it. Yes… you can now be the cool guy in town with shirts that proudly display [...]

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I Love My New iPhone But…

Monday, April 7th, 2008

So, I waited out my old Verizon contract, and went to AT&T mainly for the iPhone. I was really excited, because I have been a big fan of the user experience offered by the iPhone. However, there was one user experience aspect that I failed to consider - AT&T’s network. My user [...]

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1 Year - 100 Blog Posts

Tuesday, April 1st, 2008

I started blogging last year in April. Over the last year I hope that this blog has proved helpful to many of you. I have been amazed at how the readership has grown. The Cairngorm series posts have been the most popular by far over the last year. Here a few [...]

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Getting Rid of Cable

Monday, March 31st, 2008

It’s official - my TV viewing habits have drastically changed over the past two years. Let me be clear though - I am not a big TV watcher, so this may be different for others. I now watch virtually all of my TV online through Hulu or ITunes. Because of this, my [...]

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Don’t Miss Adobe Developer Week

Monday, March 24th, 2008

Adobe Developer Week kicks off today. There are many great sessions covering topics from ColdFusion 8, Blaze DS, Flash Lite 3, and AIR. You won’t want to miss this chance at free online training sessions. For a complete listing of classes and their times, click below.
Adobe Developer Week

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Contacting Me

Thursday, March 6th, 2008

I recently removed the contact form that was on this site (I found out that many real requests were being caught as spam). I will write a new one myself in the future - so I can ensure that this doesn’t happen again. In the mean time, I have updated the contact page [...]

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New Native Google Calendar and Outlook Sync

Thursday, March 6th, 2008

Google Calendar has now enabled both two way and one way sync with Microsoft Outlook. This is more than just reading your GCal feeds - it is an actual Windows application that enables the sync. I might have to revisit Outlook in the future if others have success with this.

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Yahoo Rejects Microsoft’s Initial Offer

Monday, February 11th, 2008

As many have speculated, Yahoo Rejected Microsoft’s initial offer of $44.6 Billion. Hopefully this will mean that there are additional companies that could become involved with Yahoo that would be more beneficial for the Flash, Flex, and ColdFusion developers out there.
Yahoo formally Rejects Microsoft’s Offer

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Yahoo and AOL Trying to Resume Talks

Monday, February 11th, 2008

I think Yahoo and AOL would be a much better fit than Yahoo and Microsoft. I hope that this could actually work. It amazes me how Yahoo is really trying to find a way to not get bought by Microsoft.
Yahoo Seeks to Restart Merger Talks with AOL

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