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Google Wave is no more. For those who remember the sound of the jaws of the tech mainstream dropping when Google showed the demo at Google I/O, that may come as a shock. For those who tried to use it, it’s probably less of a shock. I kind of liked ReadWriteWeb’s take: Why did Wave [...]
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One of the things that I’ve found to be a bit of a pain is structuring data correctly so it’s easy to chart. Luckily there are some things you can do within the charting framework in Flex to make that a bit easier as well as some things you can do with the Zend Framework [...]
keywords charting, data visualization, flex, php, zend framework
There is a cool workshop being given by Jamie Kosoy called No Flash? No Problem and he had a great quote in the description: There’s a long list of common complaints about the use of Flash, but many of the criticisms just aren’t true. Detractors say that Flash isn’t search …
keywords adobe, flash, flash html, general, html, lead, screen readers, search engine, silos
This hits two of my favorite things; Flex applications and in-browser RIAs. Picnik, the Seattle-based startup that was purchased by Google a little while ago built one of the coolest photo editing applications on the web and were very early users of Flex. I always loved the customization work …
keywords adobe, applications, browser based, favorite things, flex, google, photo editing, picasa, picnik, rias, seattle
The official Flex team blog reminded me that Effortless Flex 4 Development is now available. It’s the perfect book for Flex and PHP developers and I got an inside look at it as I did the tech-reviewing for it. Larry is an awesome author who usually does a lot with PHP but recently started …
keywords adobe, blog, books, flex, flex 4, lot, php, php developers
This is a fairly straightforward topic but I did a quick DZone article on charting with Flex and PHP using the data-centric design wizards in Flash Builder. The wizards make it very easy to at least get the basics down and start using data in charts, and I covered some basic ways to add …
keywords adobe, charting, data visualization, flex, php
As an evangelist, obviously a lot of what we do is presenting. I always wish I could make my presentations more interesting and more of a show so I’m always watching how other people present. A great example is Cirque Du Soleil, which came through Seattle as part of their Kooza show. At a …
keywords evangelism, evangelist, general, personal, seattle
I love the web. I love web development, I love web applications, and most importantly I loved where we were going with web applications. I was obviously a huge proponent of rich Internet applications and capturing a better user experience inside of the browser. Combine a great user experience …
keywords adobe, flash, internet applications, love, mobile, native applications, proponent, rias, rich internet applications, user experience, web applications
One of the PHP demos that goes over pretty well is my Flex socket demo. It used to be that Flex/Flash was really the only way to take advantage of WebSockets but with browser vendors implementing bleeding edge support for HTML5, developers can now use the WebSocket API in JavaScript. I wanted to …
keywords api, bleeding edge, browser vendors, canvas, charting, demo, demos, developers, html5, javascript, php
I didn’t realize until Renaun blogged it that the Flex 4.1 SDK includes Flash Player 10.1 and AIR 2. One of the biggest pains for me during the beta period was copying over files and folders to merge the 4.0 SDK with AIR and Flash Player so I could do development in Flash Builder. I [...]
keywords adobe, air, beta period, flash builder, flash player, flash player 10, flex, folders, sdk, using flash
Trying to be a bit more analog in a digital world. Also a web developer advocate for Adobe. Married to @kirabrady, writer of awesome books. http://blog.digitalbackcountry.com
@davejohnson My favorite part of jetlag is having a guilt-free beer at 5:00 AM, because really, it's 1:00 PM.@ryanstewart
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