10 - Swag 9 – Tons of Great Sessions 8 - Adobe’s Big Announcement 7 - The new 360 API Contests 6 – Awesome Networking Opportunities 5 – Tom and John know what’s up… you need to meet them if you do Flex 4 – Doug McCune.. you just never know… 3 – Ryan Stewart + Thermo.. c’mon [...]
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Our first post is up on the O’Reilly Inside RIA Site. LFFS – 1: Meet the Authors, Meet Flex This first post is an introduction of Scott and myself and a way to set a base for what we’ll be up to in the coming posts. Our next post is called Flex Defined. In Flex [...]
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I feel very fortunate to have been asked to be a part of the new O’Reilly Inside RIA blog site. Rich Tretola asked me if I would like to be involved a short time ago. I decided to take a stab at something that isn’t yet that prominent in the blogosphere: “Learning Flex from Scratch”. This is [...]
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Here’s some Merapi bling for your desktop… 1024×768 | 1280×1024 | 1440×900 | 1600×1200 | 1680×1050 1024×768 | 1280×1024 | 1440×900 | 1600×1200 | 1680×1050 Enjoy!
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Merapi is a new project that is a framework for connecting AIR to java at the desktop. It will be built as freeware until the team is happy with the stability. We will then move it to Google Code and make the project open source. There will be more to come but for now I [...]
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Mims Wright has just released a new animation library. I haven’t tried it out yet, but it looks pretty cool. Quoting the wiki: “KitchenSync was designed for developers who want a smart way to handle animation or other time-based functionality with code. Written from the ground up in ActionScript 3.0, KitchenSync relies on smart object-oriented [...]
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I’ll be speaking at the next 360|Flex conference coming up in Atlanta. If you’ve not been to a 360|Flex in the past, they’re great conferences and you should definitely check it out. Tom and John do a great job a putting these events on. There will be a ton of great speakers, include several from [...]
Continue readingThis post is in response to the recent battle of words ignited by a post from Mike Chambers called CommandProxy : .NET / AIR Integration Proof of Concept. Soon after Scott Barnes posted a response to Mike’s post called Adobe AIR + .NET Proxy – Concerns arise and a subsequent post RE: Adobe AIR + [...]
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Joe is the man that brought us the AIR iPhone powered by Ribbit. I’m really excited to have Joe on board helping lead the UX charge at Universal Mind.
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One of the fairly simple applications I’ve been impressed with since switching to Mac OS X about a year ago is Toast. Particularly, I like the way they use a morphing effect. A similar effect is used throughout Mac OS X. As a simple UX exercise I decided to recreate the Google Talk install process [...]
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