Archive | May, 2008

LogBook and Application Performance

Its exciting to see LogBook, Comcast Interactive Media’s first open source project get some traction. There is talk of LogBook being included in other open source projects as well as people have started submitting patches and suggestions to the project. One issue that was submitted a few days back was around the Logging implementation dispatching [...]

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Beyond the Browser: On Gears, BrowserPlus, Prism, AIR, Widgets and really long titles

Most Flash/Flex developers are by now pretty familiar with the Adobe Air platform. And maybe its a case of “when you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail” syndrome, but suddenly the browser doesn’t seem to be enough for the kind of apps I would like to build. The realization couldn’t have come at [...]

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Why open-source : The LogBook Story

About 4 months back, the Flash team at Comcast Interactive Media released LogBook, our first official open source project. This blog post is a retrospective on the experience. The main reason I am writing this entry is to show that open source serves more than just the developer ego, and a company that allows open [...]

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My ScrollImage component on Aral’s GAE SWF project :)

So as most of you guys may know, Aral Balkan, one of the biggest names in Flash development, has been working for a while on a reference Google App Engine application called GAE SWF. In the last build, version 1.53, he has included a component that lets users browse and upload an image to their [...]

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