Chuck FreedmanLast year I had the honor of speaking at MAX in Chicago for the first time. Having spoken at and attended many conferences, appearing at MAX was easily one of the highlights of my career. This year, especially with MAX 2008 being in my new ‘backyard’ of San Francisco, I hope to lead another exciting [...]
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PaperVision3D meets Ribbit
I don’t think I’ve ever had more fun coding than putting together this little app, which features PaperVision3D effects combined with phone calling by way of the Ribbit API component. There is a lot more I want to do with this app; mainly adding messaging and contacts features. The easiest part was integrating the Ribbit [...]
Ribbit announces 650 Flex developers, funding and future plans
What a media day for Ribbit today. We are top news in just about every major technology publication and blog. Almost every story mentions Flex and AIR as key technologies for Ribbit’s developer platform, reported as having over 650 Flex developers from over 65 countries. Here is a sampling of stories and below that, a [...]
Ribbit Platform Release Party – Final preparations
One of the easiest ways for an API Flex coder to quantify their work over a length of time is compare asdocs every month or so. I’m preparing for Ribibt’s Platform Release Party, assembling my presentations and one particular slide called “what’s new in beta 2″. Comparing the Beta 1.1 docs for the Ribbit Flex [...]
Space Ranger
Me (gangsta style), Chase and Jamie killing Zorg on the Buzz Lightyear ride during our recent trip to Disneyland. Jamie usually scores higher than me, but Chase decided to help me out on this adventure. On the way out of the ride, you can view your photo and email it to yourself, which I think pays dividends in [...]
Igniting MAX and the human response
Answering the call from MAX master Ted Patrick, I submitted a topic for the Ignite sessions to be held during the opening night at MAX. And wouldn’t you know it, that topic was chosen. My proposed Ignite session ‘Score with Flex up the middle’ will be one of just 16 topics featured during the opening night of Adobe’s [...]
Ribbit on AIR will be INSPIRE-ing at Adobe MAX Chicago
In the hilarious debut season of NBC’s 30 Rock, Tracy Jordan (played by Tracy Morgan) gave some great advice to Kenneth the NBC page. He said “Live every week like it’s a Shark Week”. Working at a startup in Mountain View feels like a Shark Week almost every week, in that with continuous releases and exciting [...]
With Flex up the middle, GameTripping.com scores 100+
Implementing a unique Flex widget in the middle of GameTripping.com has helped the ultimate ballpark review site to surpass the century mark with 100+ ballpark reviews and counting. I had authored a more compact, step-thru widget back in February, but the user experience wasn’t rich enough to capture reviews from the healthy traffic that [...]
Meet the new Blog
Something magical happened last week when, while reviewing my weekly stats I noticed that this blog I write had attracted over 1,000 unique visitors in a single day. What was even more astounding was that those visitors hit over 5,000 pages. Under most circumstances, that kind of news/milestone would motivate one to begin taking their [...]
Announcing my next move; Yahoo! to Ribbit
Life is a game of chess. You have to make your moves carefully, consciously and without emotion. When you decide to leave a company and team you really care about, the emotion factor just can’t be ignored. After 17 very successful months at Yahoo!, I have decided to leave for an exciting startup company in Mountain [...]
