Adobe MAX Europe 2008 Recap
Sunday, December 7th, 2008 Posted in General Media / Stuff, MAX 2008, Self Reference, pics | 1 Comment »Well, I made it back from Milan without a hitch... except I caught a nasty cold on the way back, but that seems to be par for the course now-a-days. Getting to Milan was a different story entirely, though. ...
MAX 2008 Europe and a quick update
Friday, October 31st, 2008 Posted in Games, General Media / Stuff, Self Reference | No Comments »First off, Aaron and I have been invited to give our session at the 2008 MAX Europe in Milan, Italy this year. We will be joining the likes of Ted Patrick, Ryan Stewart and many other amazing speakers for ...
Speaking At MAX 2008
Thursday, September 11th, 2008 Posted in Self Reference | No Comments »For the few of you that read this blog and have already looked at the Adobe MAX 2008 schedule, you may have noticed that Aaron Pedersen and I are doing two sessions: "Developer Best Practices with Flex" and "Designer Best ...
VivMedia Code Library: Version 0.03 released
Saturday, July 19th, 2008 Posted in ActionScript, Distribution, Flash Player, Flex Development, Rich Internet Applications, Self Reference, web 2.0, web integration | No Comments »I pushed a new version of the library yesterday to Google Code. This is a relatively small release, which was not really my intention for version 0.03. Originally, I was planning on adding the first of a series ...
Posting slowing down for a bit…
Monday, July 14th, 2008 Posted in General Media / Stuff, Self Reference | No Comments »Hi All, its been a while since I wrote a "fireside chat" post and this is a good as time as any. Some of you may have noticed my posting has slowed down a bit over the last month ...
Adobe Edge Article: Coding Standards
Saturday, June 14th, 2008 Posted in ActionScript, Flex Development, General Media / Stuff, Rich Internet Applications, Self Reference, web 2.0, web integration | 4 Comments »A few months ago I was asked to write an article for the Adobe Edge Newsletter on a topic of my choosing. After spending a bit of time thinking about what moved me at the moment, I decided to ...
Testing Markdown Support In Wordpress
Saturday, April 19th, 2008 Posted in OS X, Self Reference | 1 Comment »I have been looking for multiple offline text editors for my blog. I have tried a few different ones over the years but I haven't really found one I like. I have actually done most of my posting ...
Moved domains and new layout…
Thursday, April 10th, 2008 Posted in Self Reference | 2 Comments »VivMedia has a long convoluted history and I am slowly but surely firming it up.  It originally started out as my first Wordpress blog that was hosted under james.fakescience.com.  It was going to be my personal blog that tied back into the ...
Where are our mid-level developers?
Tuesday, January 29th, 2008 Posted in Flex Development, General Media / Stuff, Rich Internet Applications, Self Reference, web 2.0, web integration | 2 Comments »Over the last few years a question has been lingering within the tech community: where are all the mid-level developers? Not only is this question being asked in the tech world, but it is now beginning to be asked ...
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. ...
