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Opera Unite – a first look 2 years ago

[update] I got some unite services working now from any browser, must have been a glitch earlier — feel free to leave a comment on my fridge  Opera announced that they would “reinvent the Web” today — having spent some time going through what was announced I’m …

When Tech Journalism goes bad 2 years ago

“Is QuickTime X The Missing Link For Flash On The iPhone?” http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/06/15/the-missing-link-for-flash-on-the-iphone/ The author suggests that QuickTime X supporting FLV playback is somehow an indication that the Flash Player will come to the iPhone. While …

FlashFocus.nl relaunched 2 years ago

This is a post for my Dutch speaking readers about the new and improved FlashFocus.nl community site.   Wat betreft nederlandstalige Flash community websites is er weinig twijfel dat FlashFocus.nl aan de absolute top staat. In 2003 was Flashtival, een evenement van FlashFocus, trouwens een …

Community certification 2 years ago

Over the last few years I’ve had several projects where I had to interview people to get involved on Flash/Flex/ActionScript projects — typically what happens is the client wants some sort of assurance that “nothing bad will happen” and somehow there is this perception …

Sneak Peek of Proxy Tags in ColdFusion 9 2 years ago

Ryan Stewart has an interesting video up on Adobe TV showing the ColdFusion proxy tags for use in Flex based apps. Shows the ability to call ColdFusion functionality directly from Flex without having to write the server side code yourself. This feature will likely be available with the release of …

Mobile Vikings API - ActionScript 3.0 implementation 2 years ago

I was very impressed to see Mobile Vikings (see earlier post) released an API that allows us to get hold of our account data. I’ve spent an hour or two working on an ActionScript 3.0 implementation that you can use in your AIR applications. Right now they’ve provided three API calls: …

Flash Builder 4 beta - exporting ASDoc documentation 2 years ago

Despite the excellent ASDoc integration added in Flash Builder 4 beta, it seems its still not easy to export to HTML and you need to set it up yourself using an external tool configuration. I spent some time trying to figure it out and stumbled across a post by Seb Lee-Delisle that gives a good …

Flash Builder 4 beta - my favorite features 2 years ago

In case you didn’t know yet, Flash Builder 4 beta (the product previously known as Flex Builder) is now available for download on labs.adobe.com, as is the beta for Flash Catalyst. I’ve been playing around with the public beta for a little bit and thought it was worth blogging some of …

HelloWorld CFC - integrating with Flex 2 years ago

I promised to blog about my adventures exploring what ColdFusion has to offer, and ColdFusion Components (CFC’s) was one of the first things I tried. I’ve got to admit its still a little uncomfortable writing non-interface related markup in tags, though of course you can do the same …

Microsoft - User Experience @ Vitra 2 years ago

Photo by Pieter Baert I just returned from a nice evening in Brussels where Microsoft held a user experience event, showing some of what their technologies have to offer. I have to say I was pleasantly surprised about the whole setup. Nice venue, great food and drink and a nice atmosphere for …