Archive | March, 2009

Flex Builder Tip: Use SWCs for image assets, not Embed metatags for pure Actionscript Projects

I have been using Flex Builder for a while now as my main Actionscript IDE for both Flex and Actionscript projects. Of course in the latter, I have been very sensitive to not using even an iota of the Fx library. However traditionally I had always used the [Embed] metatag to embed graphic symbols into [...]

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Why Facebook’s new changes don’t feel like the death of Twitter

I had a pretty interested conversation with JPToto yesterday, on Facebook no less, on Facebook’s new features and their impact on Twitter. JP posted his thoughts on the coming twit-pocalypse on his blog today. I am posting my conversation with JP below. However the very fact that I cant actually link to it is the [...]

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On Technology, User Experience and the need for Creative Technologists

Of late I have been involved in a lot of conversations around user experience, especially since the last few months the sessions at the RefreshPhilly group that I am involved in have had quite a number of speakers on that topic. Speakers on UX usually come from a design background which isn’t surprising. The opinion [...]

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RefreshPhilly March event is tomorrow!

Its that time of the month again! RefreshPhilly’s March session in tomorrow with sessions from the Luke Crawford, the CTO of Muxtape as well as by Todd Warfel from MessageFirst on Sketching and Rapid Iterative Design. If you havent done so, do RSVP on the Facebook event page (we need the names for security passes [...]

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