Chuck FreedmanIt’s very tempting… While driving, that ‘new message’ chime rings and you know you’ve got a text message waiting for you on your phone. Even reaching over for the phone, if it’s in your cup holder on the passenger seat, will result in that split second that your eyes are not on the road. There are enough [...]
Archive | December, 2007
Writing again on fresh AIR, Excited about tray icons, docking and menus
Our editors at Wrox were understanding enough when we told them that until the AIR APIs were a bit more frozen, we really weren’t going to make too much forward progress on the book. Now that beta 3 is out, and since we’ve all been told that the APIs are now as frozen as they [...]
Ribbit announces $2500 Flex app contest; Nominated for 2 Crunchies
In a recent press release, Ribbit announced that our Flex developer community has reached nearly 2,000 developers, tripling in size within a week of the company’s launch on Monday. We have also announced our next contest, the biggest yet, where you can win a Grand Prize of $2500. The best Personal Ribbit Phone app will [...]
Make Flex Components look good
Every so often I find the need to venture further beyond the bland world of default Flex skins that usually fail to enhance my rapid web application prototypes. When I do this, I usually turn to one of my trusty Flex 2 books (Mr. Tretola or Mr. Kazoun’s masterpieces) to reference this art I, for [...]
Ribbit announces 650 Flex developers, funding and future plans
What a media day for Ribbit today. We are top news in just about every major technology publication and blog. Almost every story mentions Flex and AIR as key technologies for Ribbit’s developer platform, reported as having over 650 Flex developers from over 65 countries. Here is a sampling of stories and below that, a [...]
Ribbit Platform Release Party – Final preparations
One of the easiest ways for an API Flex coder to quantify their work over a length of time is compare asdocs every month or so. I’m preparing for Ribibt’s Platform Release Party, assembling my presentations and one particular slide called “what’s new in beta 2″. Comparing the Beta 1.1 docs for the Ribbit Flex [...]
My first two years in Silicon Valley, Part 1: Ymaps and Flex 1.x
And now, part 1 of a 4 part blog series on my first 2 years out west… Yahoo Maps and being stuck at Flex 1.x Yahoo gets almost all the credit for my relocation. They won me over and got me to move 3,000 miles form home. Not many developers get a chance to work on and enhance an application that [...]
Space Ranger
Me (gangsta style), Chase and Jamie killing Zorg on the Buzz Lightyear ride during our recent trip to Disneyland. Jamie usually scores higher than me, but Chase decided to help me out on this adventure. On the way out of the ride, you can view your photo and email it to yourself, which I think pays dividends in [...]
