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Randy Pausch’s “Last Lecture”
This has been around a lot (I even saw it mentioned in my local newspaper) so it’s probably not news to anyone, but I wanted to save this link so I can find it again.
This is definitely an amazing, thought-provoking look at leading a rich and fulfilling life, from someone who knew he didn’t have […]
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The interview I don’t remember
Wow. I go on vacation and come back to find that I someone has been impersonating me. How did I discover this horrible fact? The 360 Flex folks posted an interview with me, but I sure don’t remember meeting up with them. What’s more, the alleged interview takes place in a Starbucks, and I don’t […]
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Slides and files for “AIR, Windows, Menus, and the System Tray”
As I’ve mentioned before, a couple of weeks ago at the Webmaniacs conference I presented a session titled “Adobe AIR: Windows, Menus, and the System Tray” (and I also presented the same material in a partially different form over the course of two SilvaFUG meetings. The presentation covers those three aspects of Adobe AIR, specifically […]
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Flash Player 10 documentation available on labs
Lee Brimelow has just pointed out that the Flash Player 10 documentation is available for download on Adobe Labs. I’m excited that this is public, so I can start talking about it more — I’ve been working on the documentation for several months now =)
On a personal note, the screenshot that Lee posted for the […]
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New ActionScript unit testing framework
Back in November 2005 (yes, 2.5 years ago!) I wrote an article about how data types and type checking work in ActionScript. ActionScript is different than many languages, in that the ActionScript compiler can be used for compile-time type checking (or not), and at runtime it is a strongly typed language, but it also has […]
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Adobe opens door for creating alternative SWF players
Adobe just announced a new project called the Open Screen Project. There’s a lot going on with the project, so I won’t try to summarize all the different points and partners. If you read through the material, you’ll see that a lot of it talks about opening the door for improving access and presentation/experience for […]
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Upcoming presentations on AIR Windows, Menus, and the System Tray
I have a couple of presentations coming up soon, and I haven’t been getting word out as much as I probably should have.
At the end of May I’ll be speaking at the Webmaniacs conference in Washington D.C. (May 19-23). I’m giving a two hour hands-on session titled “AIR: Windows, Menus, and the System Tray.” The […]
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Flex 4 (“Gumbo”) - first details revealed
The first details of the overarching “themes” for Flex 4 (“Gumbo”) have been posted on the Flex open source wiki. Four themes are listed (“Design in Mind”, “Accelerated Development”, “Horizontal Platform Improvements”, and “Broadening Horizons”) although currently only “Design in Mind” has any details.
And what nice details they are!
Here are a few highlights that stood […]
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Big ideas behind Google Apps Engine
There’s been plenty of blog play about Google’s recently announced Apps Engine, which provides scalable server hosting for web apps.
I found a couple of posts that were very interesting from a different perspective than just the “hey free web hosting” angle, that I wanted to save/share:
Alec Saunders discusses Google App Engine as an example of […]
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Release day for Flash Player, AIR, and …
Lots of big releases for Adobe AIR and Flash Player today. In no particular order:
Security update for Flash Player (“9.4”) (also see the DevNet article)
Security update for Adobe AIR (“1.0.1”)
New public Flash Player bugbase (also see the DevNet article)
Adobe Media Player 1.0 (with a lot more content now that it’s final — if you’ve tried […]
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