Chuck FreedmanWith all the posts and noise, I wanted to take a step back and consider who wins and loses most now that the world’s biggest mobile device company has officially continued its policy of shunning Flash Player from its mobile product line. Winners: – Any Flash design/interactive firm that has embraced the iPhone SDK, hired [...]
Archive | January, 2010
RIA Conference Schwag Auctions for Charity
In addition to making a few random donations for Haiti relief, I wanted to contribute to the HaitiNeeds.us effort led by Jesse Freeman. Partially inspired by something Ted Patrick did several years ago, I decided to take a bunch of conference schwag items and post them on eBay. 100% of the proceeds go to charity [...]
Why were there exciting Flash Lite devices at 2010 CES?
We are just a few weeks removed from an Adobe/developer cage match, where Adobe’s mobile strategy was bashed and Flash Lite, in particular, was called all sorts of nasty names. No matter what you feel about Flash Lite, you have to agree that is has all but been deprecated (at least on devices that can [...]
Flex Example: Populating Value Objects with web service XML
I am working on a little AIR application that stores data both locally (SQLlite) and on a web service (PHP/MySQL) that I’m building in parallel. When the app starts, it requests initial data to populate a pair of DataGrids in the AIR app. I’m sending a URLRequest against a URLLoader with simple params and getting [...]
Lots of personal and technical wins in 2009
It’s Sunday morning, January 3, and I’m on a natural sugar high after drinking a cup of Cran-Peach juice from Massachusetts-based Ocean Spray. I wanted to be in the most positive frame of mind (not easy when my Celtics lose 3 in-a-row to end the year / but easier when you wake up to relaxing [...]
