Chuck FreedmanDear Microsoft, I’m a career long Flash designer and developer. I have used Flash Professional and Flash Builder (a.k.a. Flex Builder) just about equally now, over this time, which means I’ve spent about the same amount dragging/dropping/drawing symbols in Flash Pro as I have writing AS/MXML in an Eclipse environment. I’ve approached projects starting on [...]
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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 [...]
Is Silverlight embedding Flash Player?
The baseball season is officially well underway. So, finding myself rightfully at work on a Friday afternoon, I decide to tap into my MLB Gameday Audio subscription for the first time this season. It’s Red Sox vs. Yankees, after all, and I love listening to baseball on the radio — especially when it’s streaming online. [...]
Adobe AIR != Silverlight, should not be compared
Adobe AIR and Microsoft Silverlight should not be compared. Understanding the difference The only thing both have in common is that they are new technologies. Adobe offers AIR to allow their existing customers, RIA developers and designers, to extend their applications from the web to the desktop. Microsoft offers Silverlight, in similar fashion, except it wants to [...]
Flash and Silverlight, maybe 2 strangers passing in the crowd
Rob Abbott tells me that he would train for the Boston Marathon differently than he did for the 2007 Miami Marathon. Why you ask? Because, the conditions are different and require totally different preparations for the runner. The Boston one is obviously/usually colder, while the Miami race is almost completely flat. In reading the amazing account of [...]
