Archive | January, 2009

Flex Example: simple slide out menu using effects

A lot of Flex developers resort to Flex ‘states’ when adding interactivity and transitions to their applications. I built the sample below to show a colleague that using Flex ‘effects’ are some times easier and involve less code than ‘states’. This simple example (very beginner) shows how you could build a slide out menu bar [...]

Obama chooses Silverlight

Obama chooses Silverlight

I almost called this post ‘The politics of technology’, but thought better of it. Just found out via Mashable that Obama’s administration has chosen to steam the swearing-in ceremony on their site. For some reason, rather than offering up the steam in several available technologies, they’ve decided to PROUDLY announce that it will be streamed [...]