Flex This! Announcing 360Flex event

December 6, 2006 · Posted in Technology · 1 Comment 

I’m a very excited today that the long awaited Flex conference is official. 360Flex promises to be a special, concentrated event and the list of speakers is already representing of the biggest talent in the industry.

What I think will separate this event from other ‘flash’ conferences is its blatant focus on DEVELOPING Flex and Flash technologies. A gutsy, yet refreshing approach to an often saturated conference agenda. The simple track structure is proof of this:

·  Flex 101 – Learn Flex A-Z
·  Application – Real-world Flex applications ( Browser & Apollo )
·  Integration – Connect Flex to any server (CF,PHP,.NET,JAVA,FDS)
·  Components – Create custom Flex components

And to go along with this simple agenda is the pricing structure of just $100 to attend. The organizers obviously want to keep the crowd as intimate as possible, limiting attendance to just 500.

As everyone’s already saying, see you at 360Flex!
http://360flex.org/2006/12/360flex-about.html

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Yahoo! Maps featured in Adobe Photoshop Elements 5.0

December 1, 2006 · Posted in Portfolio, Technology · 1 Comment 

I just got a fresh copy of Adobe Photoshop Elements 5.0 featuring Yahoo! Maps.
The popular software uses the Yahoo! Maps Flash API to let users position photos anywhere on the map.

I am very proud of this integration, as it proves the quality and stability of the Flash API and map services worthy of inclusion in a classy application the likes of Adobe Photoshop. With the whole web 2.0 explosion, mashups and apis becoming common web-speak, it’s easy to forget that APIs originally were used as interfaces between applications. It reminds you of how a single implementation of an API in a desktop application can reach a large set of users so easily.

A sign of things to come with Apollo?…

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