Archive | September, 2006

Look Ma, I am on TV

…my video interview at FF. I need to go on a diet !

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Https on Apache Tomcat 5.5

I tried to play around with Flex Data Services today. So I downloaded the package and went through the install. Now since I already have an instance of Apache Tomcat 5.5 running on my laptop I was less than inclined to install JRun. So I installed the non-JRun package and deployed the FDS WARs. I [...]

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Cool widget at Flex Dev Center

Check it out: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/ I love transitions !

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HOLY SH** !!!! WE WON !!!!!

OMG OMG OMG. We WON!!! The Fan won the People’s choice award from among 60 other applications. I gave a stuttering speech when I accepted the orange arrow. Of course most of the kudos go to the design and the interaction gurus but I’d like to think development has had something to do with it [...]

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More notes, Day 2, FF Austin

XD Talk: Better looking evolution of Mike Chamber’s ApolloTunes, now renamed to Acsension. Neat design for the xd group: XD bold and joined to look like a bomb. —————————— Browser Power for Flash 1) Loading a valid xhtml file as an xml file. (I think its a better idea than ripple but I need to [...]

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Blogging from Flash Forward, Austin

Am at the Flash Forward Conference at Austin. Has been fun so far even though I am really tired. I attended a few useful sessions so far one of which I am not allowed to speak about . I think the most educational session has been the one on the Flex component life-cycle by Chafic [...]

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Next Gen Apps: Really Good or RRRReally Bad !

I installed MAX today, a new app running on the WPF RC1 runtime, mostly cos of the hype I read on a few blogs. Is it great? Well I dont know. Its…different. A lot of things glow. A lot of things have drop shadows. There are some tweens. But is that what I am looking [...]

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Obligatory Flickr post

Had a few hours (well actually I didnt but I couldn’t but I needed a break from ‘work’ ), so I decided to refactor some of the code from Flexamp and create a few ‘widgets’ (I am beginning to hate that term by the way). Anyway, I had the basic application out in like 20 [...]

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Flickr changes bust Flexamp and other Flash apps

Flickr changed the crossdomain file on their servers a few days back breaking Flash applications across the www. The flickr crossdomain file at www.flickr.com has been removed and Flash developers have been asked to point their applications to api.flickr.com. Unfortunately I missed the news and so far the last few days, related media has not [...]

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