I am happy to let you know that as of this week, the Ribbit voice component for Flex and AIR has gone public beta and the developer platform is now open for all developers to join. Join Now & Download the Component: To join, go to: http://developer.ribbitphone.com/signUp.php You will be approved and able to code…
Category: Flex
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…
Sharing a revolutionary technology, the Ribbit Phone Component
The Ribbit Phone Component will give Rich internet application developers the ability to make and receive calls, record/send and receive voicemail, as well as add and manage contacts. Our goal in sharing this revolutionary technology with other developers is to help fill a huge void in web applications today; the ability to make true ‘one-click-calling’….
A coder’s moment: Where did these 1004 lines of code come from?
I just had a coder’s moment. I’m debugging an application now that I’ve been working on for nearly 3 months. I’m inside one class, scanning the code to add a conditional and it hits me: ‘Where did all this code come from?’. What started with 3 lines of Flex auto-generated mxml is now 1004 lines…
Yahoo! Maps Enhancements and Easter eggs
A recent report says that Yahoo! Maps has about 29.4 million users, easily making it one of the most popular and visited Flex applications ever. Some recent improvements should push that number higher and I’m happy to see my favorite Easter egg has survived. Congrats to the entire Yahoo! Maps team for recently adding some…
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…