Category Archives: Flex News
Having trouble getting a client to pay?
My good friend Dan Florio (Twitter friends actually) kicked off a discussion about what to do when a client doesn’t pay. He has some great tips and is also asking for some community input. I am sure there are plenty of bad experiences out there to go around, mine included. [...]
Headed to Max!
Prepared to head off to Adobe MAX 2008. This will be my 4 or 5th time going, can’t recall all of them. I signed up for lots of advanced Flex and AIR courses, should be pretty good learning experience. I especially enjoy seeing some of the problems others in the field are [...]
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Xdrive closes it’s doors
My recent employer just released a service announcement that they are closing their doors December 31st 2008. What this means now is that all the applications I helped development for the past 2 years will vanish into the ether, poof! This is very sad indeed as I spent a good amount of time this [...]
New things to come
Yesterday was my last day of work at a full-time gig. I now find myself looking for new opportunities for the first time in almost two years. I moved to Los Angeles back in November of 2006 with high hopes to create great Flex applications, expand my knowledge and become more connected to [...]
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Google crawls Flash, mostly… (now imporved!)
Today Google reported that they now have a new algorithm for indexing the textual content of Flash files. This has always been something businesses have been concerned with, how to do SEO (Search Engine Optimization) with Flash. Flash developers (and Flex) would have to place the content of the Flash into a [...]
Megadeth is alive and well in Bangaluru
And so am I…. I am entering my third week of my month long stay in Bangalore (Bangaluru to the locals). Bangalore can best be described as being under construction or in a transitional state. The big IT boom started here about 5-6 years ago. This caused a major influx [...]
FITC Hollywood 2007
I was asked to speak at this years FITC conference located at Universal Studios, Hollywood. I will be co-presenting with my co-worker Larry Drolet. Our presentation is called “Concepts on AIR”. We will demonstrated some basic AIR concepts such as system chrome, drag and drop, and system notification. We will also present some pretty cool [...]
Adobe Max 2007 Conference
(me at the AOL picnic table)
We got an invitation to the Adobe MAX 2007 conference in Chicago. We will be located in the AIR Park next to the big red bus. We are actually setup on astro-turf and a picnic table, can’t beat that :). We will also have a chance to present [...]
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Adobe MAX 2009 – Los Angeles