Archive | April, 2010

Reminder: Flex 4 and Flash Builder 4 Launch Event at Wharton this Wednesday

In case you haven’t heard already, this Wednesday (April 28th), the Philadelphia Adobe User Groups will be holding a joint event celebrating the release of the Flex 4 framework and Flash Builder 4 at the Wharton’s Jon M. Huntsman Hall, Room G65. We’ll have Terry Ryan, Flash Platform Evangelist for Adobe speaking at the occasion and [...]

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Alright Adobe, here’s what you do: Cross compile Objective C to run on the Flash Player

Ooooh, I think this may actually be a good idea. We know that Apple is trying to keep its developer base isolated from the rest of the mobile world. If you have to choose a platform between iPhone and Android, an indy developer will probably choose the iPhone right? Thats where the people are. This [...]

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On Breadth First and Depth First thinking

Great talk by Don Norman, a founder of The Cognitive Science Society, and widely considered to be the first to apply advanced human factors to design via cognitive design on The three ways that good design makes you happy: The three ways he talks about are: Visceral: How pleasant things seem to work better. Behavioral: How good [...]

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Thank you Apple, May I have another…not!

Word on the street: Apple’s new wording on the iPhone SDK disallows cross compiling iPhone apps, like the Adobe Flash CS5 IDE was doing. Other cross compiler solution vendors like Appcelerator,  Unity and Phone Gap are not sure what this means for them. Appcelerator’s blog goes down because of dev traffic. Flash community pretty vocal [...]

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Notes from Jonathan Rosenberg’s talk on Rules to Success

Fantastic talk by Jonathan Rosenberg, Senior Vice President, Product Management at Google on Rules to Success. The talk was so heavy with aphorisms that I ended up watching it twice and noted down his various points. They may be slightly off missing a couple of points here and there, but still pretty educational (for me [...]

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