For those of you that don’t know, Adobe has made a Flex “Cookbook” for all you upcoming Flex developers (and even for you seasoned developers as well). The idea behind the cookbook is that it will be a community-driven archive of tips and best-practices for Flex development…awesome! The site is less than a […]

There is a small article on TechCrunch that discussed one of the newest (and for me, the one of the most exciting) platforms that Adobe is releasing…Apollo. They give a brief rundown, link to a half-hour podcast with Kevin Lynch, Adobe’s senior vice president and chief software architect, and even mention our little project, […]

The holidays are upon us and it’s about time for a Christmas post.  A team at Adobe has just created, and made public, a Flash Holiday Card Creator.  No instructions, in fact, no words at all.  Very intuitive site to creates some nice e-cards to send out to friends and family.  Enjoy!
Merry Christmas!
Charles

The eBay project that I’ve had a part in has turned some heads. I wrote about it a couple of weeks ago after it was presented at the Adobe MAX Conference in October 2006, and an article on zdnet.com was published yesterday featuring our project! Give it a read and let me know […]

It’s done. I’ve finally completed my work on writing the ActionScript 3 eBay API! It’s been a long time coming, but I think the library is a really great tool for Flex and Flash (and soon, Apollo) developers to get their hands on. Like I mentioned before, we built a project around […]

The presentation to FlexGala, the Flex User Group in Italy, was great. Thanks to Raffaele Mannella and Marco Casario for setting this up, as well as the FlexGala members for having me. As promised, here is the slide deck from the presentation. Feel free to contact me if you have any other questions. Hope to […]

Hi everyone,
I will be giving an online webinar to FlexGala, the Italian Flex User Group via Acrobat Connect (formerly Macromedia Breeze). It is titled “Introduction to Flex Data Services” and will take place this Wednesday, December 13th at 12:00pm EST (6:00pm Italy time). As you can probably tell from the title, it […]

For all you Linux users waiting on Flash Player 9, you can get your feet wet with the Flash Player 9 Beta that was put on Adobe Labs recently.
http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer9.html
*Update: since my post, Flash Player 9 for Linux has reached Beta 2, fixing some audio issues.  See Penguin.SWF, an Adobe Blog maintained by Mike M. dedicated […]