Archive | September, 2007

Off to MAX tomorrow ! Ping me if you are there !

This is what I look like. If you see me around, ping me on anything Flex and AIR . And of course if you are interested in working for Comcast Interactive Media on the next generation of entertainment based applications, my team is definitely looking for talented developers.

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Passing of Mark Belsterling, distinguished member of the Flex community.

I was shocked to hear today of the passing of Mark Belsterling, one of the main voices of the Flex community in Philadelphia and indeed the world. Mark was the manager of the Philadelphia Flex User Group. Mark passed on this Saturday, Sept the 8th. I met mark a few months back when he came [...]

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New Flex Component: ScrollImage

ScrollImage is kind of like Flash ScrollPane component. The component takes any image url and loads the image putting scrollbars around it to allow the image to be scrolled. While the same effect can be created by using the Image inside a Canvas container, this implementation is much more efficient since its not creating a [...]

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[Video] DiggGraphr Desktop 1.0: My entry for the Air Derby

DiggGraphr is finally mature enough for me to give it 1.0 status. I finally got around to implementing the features I have been meaning to for a while, including auto update and inline browsing using the HTML control in AIR. The code for it wasnt difficult but the change in user experience is pretty phenomenal. [...]

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7 Reasons to consider Flex

In response to another annoying Flex bashing article on Digg, I though I’d post my response and get some facts straight (I basically take all his ‘facts’ and respond to em so read the other article in paralllel). Funniest thing is, they are trying to sell a proprietary AJAX framework and scare their prospective customers [...]

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