Blogging from 38,000 feet aboard Virgin America
Well, I knew this day would come. The day when I could finally connect to the internet and end in-flight boredom for all time!
I am writing now from seat 12c aboard a Virgin America flight from Boston to SFO.
This airline has more perks than any I’ve ever flown.
Since they only operate two flights out of Boston, they’re ticket area is small and intimate.
They have their own 2 terminals (Logan B) and for that, they’re own TSA checkpoint.
You can order food and drinks from your LCD screen and they deliver it to you.
There are over 3,000 games, movies and songs to enjoy.
Every chair has a controller with keyboard on the other side.
The live maps is powered by google and allows you to zoom in and out. (It has a login button, but it’s not active yet. Wonder what that’s going to be?)
Oh, the airline has amazing wifi, powered by gogo.
And with that wifi, I logged into a simple Ribbit phone (at http://demo.ribbit.com) and called a few folks.
My dad, wife and brother told me the quality was perfect — absolutely flawless.
To be able to tlak over the phone (well, through Ribbit and Flash and to someone else’s phone) that’s 7 miles below you is pretty amazing!
I took this video with my laptop webcam.
SO amazing.
Can’t wait to fly this airline again.
Never bored. Never disconnected. And thanks to Ribbit, never out of touch, when flying again!
Flex and Flash developer community challenge
So earlier today I posted a community challenge on the Ribbit blog. The idea was to throw some interesting use cases at the community and see what everyone can come up with. Ribbit is such a simple yet interactive service, there are a lot of different ways to apply various fundamentals of Flash Platform development.
Basically, on Thursdays (not sure if it’ll be weekly or every few weeks), I’ll come up with a challenge that involves some ActionScript, Flash or Flex skills and combines them with some simple Ribbit API skills.
The first community challenge posted today is called “How you gonna call?” and asks for a solution to address microphone and general audio issues we’ve experienced with Flash Player on Macbooks. Basically, if you can figure out how to detect the operating system and audio ‘capabilities’ of Flash Player, you could easily win this community challenge.
I think it’s pretty fun… and while the prize package isn’t exactly of the magnitude of, say, our $100,000 Killer App Challenge, it’s pretty good considering you may only need about 10 minutes to win this challenge.
So check it out and I hope it’s fun for you!
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