Chuck FreedmanI caught the classic movie WarGames on TV over the weekend. There was a scene where Matthew Broderick’s character decides to check out the latest games from a company called ProtoVision, based out of Sunnyvale, CA. I was probably 6 or 7 when I first saw that movie as a kid, and I couldn’t have [...]
Archive | September, 2007
Igniting MAX and the human response
Answering the call from MAX master Ted Patrick, I submitted a topic for the Ignite sessions to be held during the opening night at MAX. And wouldn’t you know it, that topic was chosen. My proposed Ignite session ‘Score with Flex up the middle’ will be one of just 16 topics featured during the opening night of Adobe’s [...]
Dreamforce: George Lucas and I have something in common
George Lucas and I have something in common. This week, we are both speaking at the Salesforce mega-conference at San Francisco’s Moscone Center. No, we’re not speaking together. Mr. Lucas will share center stage with the likes of Marc Benioff and Bruce Chizen during tomorrow’s Dreamforce 2nd day keynote. And while I’m sure they will be discussing [...]
Ribbit on AIR will be INSPIRE-ing at Adobe MAX Chicago
In the hilarious debut season of NBC’s 30 Rock, Tracy Jordan (played by Tracy Morgan) gave some great advice to Kenneth the NBC page. He said “Live every week like it’s a Shark Week”. Working at a startup in Mountain View feels like a Shark Week almost every week, in that with continuous releases and exciting [...]
The Professional AIR Book: new title, new date, and soon, a new cover
It seems like a long time ago when I first announced that I, along with co-authors Sir Keith Peters, Clint Modien and Ryan Manning, was busy writing Wrox’s Professional Apollo book. The book’s listing has long since changed to a more accurate, solid and extremely competitive title of: Professional AIR: Application Development for the Adobe [...]
Gadgematch 5: My first 24 hours with the new Motorola Q 9m
I just purchased my first new phone in almost 2 years. The successor to my Samsung i730 had a big footprint to fill in my gadget portfolio. Of course, one of my goals was to slim that footprint down to a phone that wouldn’t make me lean too much to one side when I put [...]
Is Adobe competing with their own developer community?
Many innovative Flex developers have churned out some quality apps recently, and in the name of “Flex adoption” they’ve been touted by Adobe from conferences to AIR Tour stops to blogs and beyond. As recently as August, I can recall Picnick being proudly displayed during the 360|Flex keynote, with quotes from the Wall Street Journal [...]
With Flex up the middle, GameTripping.com scores 100+
Implementing a unique Flex widget in the middle of GameTripping.com has helped the ultimate ballpark review site to surpass the century mark with 100+ ballpark reviews and counting. I had authored a more compact, step-thru widget back in February, but the user experience wasn’t rich enough to capture reviews from the healthy traffic that [...]
