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My blog has moved 4 months ago

I’ve been working on a new blog called Experience Craftsmanship. For here on in that’s where I will be blogging, so jump over and join me there.

MAX 2010 – Day 1 – It’s all about the screen last year

It’s all about the screen. There is an explosion of new devices and screens. The desktop, phone, tablet and TV. Multiply that by the various screen sizes and we have a challenge confronting us, but the opportunity for innovation is endless. Specifically, it is interesting to see the various …
keywords explosion, innovation, max, screen sizes, screens

My First Mosaic Application last year

Adobe LiveCycle Mosaic is a recent addition to the LiveCycle family that offers some interesting possibilities in the enterprise. As many of us experience when developing large enterprise applications we need to start thinking about modularization for performance or to segment the application to …
keywords adobe livecycle, enterprise applications, modularization, mosaic, possibilities, segment

Adobe wins Blue Button through User Experience last year

The Adobe User Experience team created the vision demo that won the Blue Button challenge for managing health records. You can read more about Adobe and Blue Button here.
keywords adobe user, experience team, user experience

LCDS Security last year

Every major release of LCDS goes through an external security audit, you can view the report in the LCDS product PDF portfolio (the portfolio also includes a great performance brief). The LCDS attack surface is very small, but there are a number of things to consider: Use AMF in production (also …
keywords amf, lcds, portfolio, security

Clean Code Starts in Sprint 1 last year

From my experience whatever you do in Sprint 1 dictates the success of your project. If you opt for a running start and ignore practices such as TDD, Pair Programming, Automation, and Refactoring then your velocity won’t account for them. You face a similar challenge if you have a herculean …
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Use of Stage Events last year

**The Problem** I was recently asked to look at an application problem around stage events. The problem we were seeing is when the application was resized the **removedFromStage** event and the **addedToStage** event were being fired. This was causing unexpected behavior in the application as …
keywords application logic, flex, unexpected behavior

Come work for Adobe last year

This is a really exciting year for Adobe Professional Services as we are growing! We are building out a Solution Center in San Jose, which requires a team of talented Software Engineers and Quality Engineers. You will be part of a co-located team in a fantastic office space that has been …
keywords adobe, office space, professional services, uncategorized

The pyramid approach to quality software last year

**Introduction** I recently read a blog post from Mike Cohn on “The Forgotten Layer of the Test Automation Pyramid”:http://blog.mountaingoatsoftware.com/the-forgotten-layer-of-the-test-automation-pyramid. I thought this was a great way to conceptualize the different forms of testing …
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Design by Contract 2 years ago

I first read about Design by Contract in the book Object-Orientated Software Construction by Bertrand Meyer. Chapter 11 discusses Design by Contract: building reliable software: "Assertions and the associated concepts, explained in this chapter, provide some of the answers. Although...
keywords assertions, chapter 11, flex, object orientated