Chuck Freedman
It’s the end of May and the Red Sox and in first place and the Yankees are in last! But that’s not the story. A total of 13.5 games separate the two teams. That means that in order for the Yankees to get out of the gutter and into first place, a combination of 2 [...]
Archive | May, 2007
ActionScript as a first language
I’ve been realizing a rising trend of late that indicates more new developers, by learning ActionScript as their first object-oriented programming language, are also being introduced to many advanced development topics like database development, MVC architecture and computer science disciplines beyond just conditionals and looping statements. ActionScript has grown to so much more than just a [...]
Yahoo! Maps Enhancements and Easter eggs
A recent report says that Yahoo! Maps has about 29.4 million users, easily making it one of the most popular and visited Flex applications ever. Some recent improvements should push that number higher and I’m happy to see my favorite Easter egg has survived. Congrats to the entire Yahoo! Maps team for recently adding some [...]
In the Flash world, nothing is without a trace.
Firefox recently became my primary browser while using Flex Builder 2 (Go to Window > Preferences > Web Browser). And the latest Flash Tracer Firefox add-on, by Alessandro Crugnola, has become my new development best friend. For those of you still suffering without it, the add-on lives alongside your browser window, spitting out any Flash-traced [...]
O’Reilly Radar blog text-to-speech with Flash Player
O’Reilly Radar’s new ”Listen” button activates an incredibly impressive text-to-speech feature that reads the content of the blog post to you. The player is built with Flash and the quality of the synthetic voice is really, really good. It’s powered by a company called ReadSpeaker and their SayIt technology. I am quite surprised that this feature [...]
Meet the new Blog
Something magical happened last week when, while reviewing my weekly stats I noticed that this blog I write had attracted over 1,000 unique visitors in a single day. What was even more astounding was that those visitors hit over 5,000 pages. Under most circumstances, that kind of news/milestone would motivate one to begin taking their [...]
Yahoo! Messenger Flex 2 version is LIVE!
Congratulations to the Yahoo! Messenger web team for releasing an incredible web-based Flex messenger application. This application has to be one of the most creatively stunning and innovative Flash Platform apps I have ever seen developed and released for such a large audience. It is an incredible fusion of branding, design and function. Where it [...]
Flash and Silverlight, maybe 2 strangers passing in the crowd
Rob Abbott tells me that he would train for the Boston Marathon differently than he did for the 2007 Miami Marathon. Why you ask? Because, the conditions are different and require totally different preparations for the runner. The Boston one is obviously/usually colder, while the Miami race is almost completely flat. In reading the amazing account of [...]
