Let me begin by saying that after playing with Adobe AIR for mobile for the last couple of weeks, I have been really pleasantly surprised by general performance. I have done quite a bit of mobile device development off late with both iOS and Android, but AIR might actually be a contender for my next [...]
This is something I thought would take me a couple of hours to implement for the application I am working on but ended up taking way too long validating behavior and the gotchas between the PC and Mac OS’s so its definitely good utility code to keep in your toolbox. The behavior I was trying [...]
Last Saturday, Philadelphia was host to its first ever FlashCamp event. The event brought together some of the biggest names in Flash and Flex in the neighborhood and beyond (special kudos to Rob Hall for organizing the event from vision to a lot of very hard work). I did have one session at the event [...]
Writing your own UI Toolkit is, if nothing else, educational. As the OpenPyro framework continues to evolve, every time a new feature is added, I look around at prior art in the domain and evaluate the choices made by different frameworks which has been fascinating. Of course, the first framework I look at (since I [...]
Having developed client side applications for the last few years in a variety of languages (Java, Flash, AIR, Javascript and recent forays into Objective C for the IPhone), its funny that some discussions appear cyclically and are discussed as though for the first time in every new project. Communicating errors in your application seems to [...]
Off late I have become pretty involved in a local (Philadelphia) user group called RefreshPhilly. The group meets the first Monday of every month and hosts a couple of talks by some local new-media professionals, designers or developers. The event is hosted at the new Comcast building where I work. However like a lot of [...]
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 [...]
As promised, today we are formally releasing LogBook, our internally developed tool for logging events from Flex (and coming very soon, pure Flash AS2/AS3) applications. For the uninitiated, logging is the process of recording and storing information about events in your application. The functionality is similar to the trace command, but a lot more robust. [...]
The team at Comcast Interactive Media is putting the final touches to an internally developed tool we use for logging events from Flex applications. The application is built on top of the Flex framework and runs as an installable AIR application. Best of all, we will be releasing it under the MIT open source license. [...]
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. [...]
Software Engineer at Comcast Innovation Labs, Creative Technologist, Open Source enthusiast, amateur illustrator, manager Philly Android Alliance User Group. The content on this blog do not reflect the views of my employer.
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