Flash Talk

Adobe has progressively been developing an online presence with Buzzword, Share, Brio and Photoshop Express. But the online presence falls short of important spreadsheet and presentation applications.

So who could the contenders be? Here are two extremely promising applications built on the Flash platform:

The ActionScript reference for rich Internet application development provides an alphabetical reference for all native ActionScript APIs for the Adobe technology platform runtimes: Adobe Flash Player and Adobe AIR—as well as the Adobe Flex framework APIs.

Via Bobby from the Flash Mobile Group. Sounds more like management transition & shuffling if you read the press release.
…the Mobile and Devices Business Unit will be folded under Adobe’s Experience and Technology group.
This group is under Kevin Lynch, so I’m sure it’ll be successful. That’s not why I care, though. What [...]

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…and end the drawNow madness.

I knew something was SERIOUSLY wrong when I read in the official docs (Part 3) from Adobe that if your code doesn’t work correctly, try using “drawNow”, and failing that, “validateNow”. What do you mean “try”? What… the… hell…

Since the Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) was released at the end of February, we now have a stable platform on which to build desktop applications with our existing web skills. A number of people have already started and the Adobe AIR Marketplace is filling with AIR applications by the day.

I was invited to attend the Microsoft MIX 2008 conference. After discussing this years conferences as well as the technology involved with my CTO, he decided we should go together. We headed to Las Vegas, where the conference was held, with the sole goal of evaluating Silverlight for use in our self-service video platform, one of our company’s main products I work on.

Adobe is doing a marketing campaign to help answer “why?” over at 30onair.com. Specifically, why would you utilize a certain technology, or set of technologies, that Adobe offers.

We are planning to release a security update to Flash Player 9 in April 2008 that further mitigates previously disclosed vulnerabilities. Because these security enhancements may impact existing SWF content for some customers, we are giving advanced notice of these...

I am a bottleneck at work. It’s made worse by the fact that 30% of my day is spent coding. The rest is working with co-workers on implementation details for projects and working project managers on time estimations & resource allocations. So, even the 30% of my day that I do get to code is fraught with distractions. Telecommuting has helped some since those days, I can focus more, but not much.