Chuck FreedmanThis will be my second major annoyance (that may be harsh, but you be the judge) with Facebook, and it’s so shocking to me that all I could think to do was write about it. Somehow, for some reason, I got an e-mail inquiry from Facebook asking me to confirm that I am actually, really, [...]
Archive | August, 2007
Master Chief was on the AIR bus in Boston
Finally, I was able to attend an AIR mini-conference along Adobe’s AIR bus tour. Coming to Boston was a great chance for me to see family. I had a lot of friends show up at the conference as well and it was a great opportunity to see them and show everyone what I had been [...]
Ribbit is coming to Boston for some revolutionary AIR
Join me at the AIR Conference in Boston, August 24. I’ll be proudly taking part in Adobe’s AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime) bus tour stop, which marks the end of the second leg of their already legendary road show. I will take the stage at 1:30 and show you a fresh new AIR app built on the upcoming [...]
Hello Flex! Phone calls made and received inside Flex and you saw it first at 360!
“It actually worked — he called someone in the audience, then someone else called him. Cooooool.” – a first hand account from The Joy of Flex, live from the 360|Flex audience. Here’s more coverage and how to be one of the first to get the component in your hands! Andy Abramson from VoIP Watch says it’s [...]
Sharing a revolutionary technology, the Ribbit Phone Component
The Ribbit Phone Component will give Rich internet application developers the ability to make and receive calls, record/send and receive voicemail, as well as add and manage contacts. Our goal in sharing this revolutionary technology with other developers is to help fill a huge void in web applications today; the ability to make true ‘one-click-calling’. [...]
My new 12 to 6 sinker curve pitch
This wiffleball pitch starts fast and high and then the bottom drops on it. It hit the bottom PVC crossbar of the regulation strike zone so fast that it popped straight up in the air. The video shows the pitch at real time and then at 60% slow-motion speed, with red lines to show the [...]
A coder’s moment: Where did these 1004 lines of code come from?
I just had a coder’s moment. I’m debugging an application now that I’ve been working on for nearly 3 months. I’m inside one class, scanning the code to add a conditional and it hits me: ‘Where did all this code come from?’. What started with 3 lines of Flex auto-generated mxml is now 1004 lines [...]
