Chuck FreedmanThis video was broadcast live, yesterday, from Ribbit in Mountain View, CA. I really appreciated Ryan coming down for part of the day to discuss the deal first hand and find out the great things in store for the Ribbit and Flash/Flex developer communities. Live Broadcast by Ustream.TV Ryan did a great blog post on [...]
Archive | July, 2008
With Passion and Energy, you’ll make the time
As usual, I was recently inspired by Sir Keith Peters and a post he made entitled ‘Where do I find the time?‘. Keith’s post is in response to a question I have no doubt he gets asked a lot. If you’ve followed Keith’s career, and if you’ve been lucky to work with Keith, as I [...]
Walking like a man
Chase is walking full time. It’s purely amazing human evolution right before my eyes!
My car is getting 41MPG
I filled my tank up recently and it occurred to me that I’m not filling up as frequently as I know others are. And believe me, at $60 per fill up, I am very aware when I visit the gas station. My car, a 2006 Acura TSX, has this ‘instant miles per gallon’ feature where [...]
Flash should be considered an Application Platform, not just a plug-in
Stop asking yourself when Flash will be on the iPhone. Apple’s winning strategy has been to CONTROL everything about their products, from the hardware it’s built on to the software it operates and runs. For as long as Apple controls the pieces of the device, they have complete accountability for its performance and functionality. It’s [...]
Ribbit at 360Flex >> Summer Spawn
Ribbit will own Day 0 (Sunday, August 17th) of this summer’s 360 Flex as we deliver another exciting seasonal Spawn event. We’re covering so much, including a sneak peak at our Beta 2.5 release, plus our brand new Voice components for Flex. You can’t miss it. It’s all FREE for you to attend. If you [...]
Recruiting with Trace Statements
Congrats to the team at Blip.tv for reaching qualified Flash developers in the most unique, yet possibly effective way I have ever seen. I just caught this set of trace statements in Flash Tracer on Firefox: I wrote about trace statements over a year ago, and while so many errors still show up, it’s cool [...]
Chumby’s successful developer approach
Chumby is the super-cute night table device that could be our gateway to finally having the all-time most useful interface known to man — the console on the refrigerator that allows us to scan our food going in and prompts us (as well as automatically places a food order) whenever we’re running out of milk. [...]
