Aggressive “Direct” Recruiting
Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008 Posted in ActionScript, Flex Development, General Media / Stuff, JavaScript, Rich Internet Applications, Self Reference, web 2.0, web integration | 1 Comment »It just happened again... I am sitting at my desk and the phone rings from an "unknown" number. I answer the call and it is a Michael for Coit Staffing informing that he has been looking for me. ...
Imeem.com: Stream it now…
Saturday, January 5th, 2008 Posted in Music, web 2.0 | 1 Comment »Hi, my name is James and I am a Google Reader addict. My old boss jokes that I spend 90% of my time in front of reader, he is probably not that far off. Before the holidays I ...
Update to Part 3 and Part 4 of Flash Internals…
Monday, December 10th, 2007 Posted in ActionScript, Flash Player, Rich Internet Applications | No Comments »Rick Reitmaier, Senior Computer Scientist at Adobe, took a few minutes of his time to review my writeup on the JIT engine within the Flash/Tamarin VM. Rick was part of the team that helped design and build the AVM+. ...
Flash Internals: Just-in-time (JIT) compilation (part four)
Monday, November 12th, 2007 Posted in ActionScript, Flash Player, Rich Internet Applications | 8 Comments »During the Adobe Max Conference I had the chance to sit in on “Flash Player Internals†session put on by Jim Corbett and Lee Thomason. Of all the sessions I attended at Max, this was by far the best and ...
Trying out Disqus for comments…
Thursday, November 8th, 2007 Posted in JavaScript, Self Reference, web 2.0 | No Comments »A while back I was having an email kvetch session with Jack Herrington about Flex String formating and during the thread he asked if I read Uncov. At the time I did not, now I am an avid fan ...
Flash Internals: The ActionScript Virtual Machine (part three)
Wednesday, November 7th, 2007 Posted in ActionScript, Flash Player, Flex Development, max 2007 | 2 Comments »During the Adobe Max Conference I had the chance to sit in on "Flash Player Internals" session put on by Jim Corbett and Lee Thomason. Of all the sessions I attended at Max, this was by far the best and ...
gMail + Thunderbird: How long will I last?
Friday, November 2nd, 2007 Posted in Rich Internet Applications, web integration | No Comments »About a year ago I jumped feet first into the world of gMail and ported over all my Fake Science accounts so that they forwarded to gMail. Once I had the ability to send emails from gMail that looked ...
Flash Internals: Byte Code, Control Tags, Renderers… oh my! (part two)
Wednesday, October 31st, 2007 Posted in ActionScript, Flash Player, Rich Internet Applications, max 2007 | 3 Comments »During the Adobe Max Conference I had the chance to sit in on "Flash Player Internals" session put on by Jim Corbett and Lee Thomason. Of all the sessions I attended at Max, this was by far the best and ...
AS3 Performance: For Loops
Friday, October 26th, 2007 Posted in ActionScript, Flash Player, Rich Internet Applications | No Comments »A while back I was reading an article on Ajaxian (I can't remember who wrote it) but it was talking about JavaScript performance tips. One of them was around writing blazing fast For loops and for some reason it ...
Flash Player Internals: Motto’s and Percentages (part one)
Thursday, October 25th, 2007 Posted in ActionScript, Flash Player, max 2007 | 6 Comments »During the Adobe Max Conference I had the chance to sit in on "Flash Player Internals" session put on by Jim Corbett and Lee Thomason. Of all the sessions I attended at Max, this was by far the best ...
