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Adobe MAX 2008: The Future of Flex Builder (Part Two)

Wednesday, December 10th, 2008 Posted in ActionScript, Flex Development, MAX 2008, Rich Internet Applications, web integration | Comments

In my previous post, I introduced the "Future of Flex Builder" session I attended at Adobe MAX North America, how the Flex Builder team is approaching new feature development and looked at the two main Design Fidelity features they are ...

Adobe MAX 2008: The Future of Flex Builder (Part One)

Monday, December 8th, 2008 Posted in Flex Development, MAX 2008, Rich Internet Applications, web 2.0, web integration | Comments

One of the more interesting sessions at MAX this year was the Future of Flex Builder. The session was presented by Rob Brambley III, Tim Buntel, Tom Lane, David Zuckerman of the Flex Builder team. Tim Buntel, product ...

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 | 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 ...

Adobe kuler Desktop Sneak Peek

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008 Posted in Adobe APIs, Flash Player, Rich Internet Applications, kuler, web 2.0, web integration | Comments

A new version of Adobe kuler desktop is now here and ready for you download! Recently, I have been providing Flash and AIR development for the wonderful people in Adobe's Emerging Creative Technologies (ECT) team and I wanted to share ...

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 | 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 ...

Was Amazon.com hacked? [update: probably not]

Thursday, June 5th, 2008 Posted in General Media / Stuff, web integration | Comments

Update: After further scrutiny it looks like the DNS whois was read wrong by us and we all jumped to conclusions. The response back was any domain with Amazon.com in the name. If you look at the last ...

The Flex Code-Behind Pattern

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008 Posted in ActionScript, Flex Development, Rich Internet Applications, web integration | Comments

The Flex code-behind pattern is a design pattern that has been around since the release of Flex 1.0 yet is not known or used by a lot of developers. The initial concept of the pattern was based on the ASP.NET ...

Work that flow…

Tuesday, March 25th, 2008 Posted in General Media / Stuff, Rich Internet Applications, web 2.0, web integration | Comments

Doug Winnie, the Group Product Manager for Workflow at Adobe, just launched his official blog called "Workflow Experiences".  I can attest to Doug's knowledge on workflow from working with him on the Scion.com redesign which we built entirely in Flex ...

Adobe Kuler 2.0 is live!

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008 Posted in Flash Player, Rich Internet Applications, kuler, web 2.0, web integration | Comments

Adobe Kuler is a Flash based web application (and now with an available AIR version) that helps designers and developers with color themes.  Designers can design their own color theme using the Kuler create tools, submit their theme to ...

SXSW 2008 is almost here!

Sunday, March 2nd, 2008 Posted in ActionScript, Flash Player, Flex Development, Music, sxsw 2008, web 2.0, web integration | Comments

This will be my 3rd year in a row for the music portion of the legendary South By Southwest conference. Once again, it starts in Dallas for me where Niki drives us down to Austin for the event. ...