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I’ve moved my blog to a new domain! Errrr…I’m movING my blog to a new domain.
www.whoischarles.com
I’ve found that I have a lot to say, but on too many topics to keep track of. This new site is my attempt at categorizing them Enjoy!
*That means I will no longer be posting here anymore […]

Hi all,
For those of you who don’t know, there’s a little something called the 360 Flex Conference. It happens annually, last year in San José and this year in Seattle. It will be from August 13th-15th and will include day-long events such as daily keynotes, classes, and presentations! I was just recently […]

I came across this excellent post today about the “openness” of Flash.  It is by Duane Nickull*, rockstar and SOA-guru at Adobe, and he talks about how people still perceive Flash to be a proprietary technology.  It is definitely a great read for anyone using Flash.  I won’t re-iterate anything from the post because he […]

Adobe has just announced that Flash Player 9 for Linux is now available in the Download Center. Nothing much else to say about that…Linux users rejoice!
Keep up to date with more Flash Player announcements by following Emmy Huang, product manager for Flash Player at Adobe.
Charles

Developer.com holds annual contests, covering various topics and categories, mainly for…you guessed it…developers.  There are categories such as best “Framework”, “Development Tool”, “Database Tool or Add-In”.  Flash Lite 2 took the title for this years best “wireless/mobile development tool”.  Not only did it win, but it dominated the category, winning by some of the widest margins […]

There are quite a few open source ActionScript 3.0 libraries that Adobe has…Flickr, YouTube, Mappr, Corelib, to name a few…and with the addition of the new eBay library (the one used in the San Dimas project), Adobe has decided to make the move from Adobe Labs to Google Code. There are a few reasons […]

Waterloo has been at the forefront of technology and computer science for quite some time. Now, they are taking another leap forward, and thankfully, they’re taking the industry with them. As of today, they have officially started their pilot for their “Media and Mobility Network Project” which, for those of you that don’t […]

Adobe Flex has won InfoWorld’s 2007 Technology of the Year Award! InfoWorld sums it up saying…
Adobe Flex 2.0 constitutes a big leap forward for this RIA platform, thanks to a new Eclipse-based IDE for drag-and-drop layout and code management, and a separate data services application for server-side messaging and data integration. Easy connections for Web […]

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, […]