Chuck Freedman
Join me, and what I’m sure will be a collection of hundreds of the more significant Flash platform designers and developers, for this year’s Flash Forward Conference in San Francisco, the week of August 20-22, 2008. Registration is now open and I am thrilled and honored to be one of the first announced speakers joining [...]
Archive | May, 2008
Flash/Flex consulting is winning the recruiting game — finally?
Almost 4 years ago, towards the end of my tenure at Fidelity, I started getting the itch to become a well-paid consultant. I invited our team’s super expensive Java consultant for a cup of coffee. I picked his brain about what it was like to consult, how lucrative it was for him and how he [...]
Indiana, never let it go
This is the one I’ve been waiting for. It’s been a long 19 years and finally, Indiana Jones comes out this week. While Back to the Future remains my favorite movie, Indiana Jones — the 3 movies together — have always been my favorite trilogy. Visiting the Indy ride at Disneyland last December was the [...]
Google Maps finally takes Flash behind the middle school
It’s been long awaited, doubted, wondered, feared, promised, predicted and hoped for so long. Today, Google Maps announced the release of a Flash API! From one platform leader to another, congratulations to the Google Maps team. This is big for you and the Flash community. Flash developers are special for maps. Flash apps are always [...]
Visual Voicemail on Windows Mobile Device with Skyfire, Ribbit and Flash
I received a Skyfire Beta install on Friday. With the Ribbit Voice components for Flash CS3 installed, I was able to drag and drop my way to a visual voicemail app in a few minutes. The app logs me in and pulls down my voicemail data from my Ribbit account, showing the caller’s name, [...]
Sprout: Click to add Twitter, Ribbit, Maps and more!
Sprout is a Flex sensation. The web-based drag and drop application lets you add many of your favorite web services into your own, fully customize-able widget. It’s sleek, flashy and full of intuitive controls. I’ve been testing out Sprout, easily building widgets of all different sizes, including a full array of design effects, and, most [...]
A giant Apple in Boston
Apple is building their largest store – evah – in the heart of Boston. Gizmodo reports the new flagship is a giant glass cube, prepared to greet 1,500 to 2,000 fanatics (I mean customers) an hour. Despite not owning anything Apple (I guess that means my kids will qualify for minority scholarships), I am in [...]
