DIGG IT!
1
Comments
Published
Friday, May 30, 2008
at
2:18 PM
.
CNET Networks in San Francisco has a great opportunity for a software
DIGG IT!
8
Comments
Published
Thursday, May 29, 2008
at
10:36 AM
.
Mozilla is attempting to set a world record for downloading FireFox, good luck with that! The problem I see is that Adobe Flash Player has seen installation spikes daily that go into the 14 Million to 25 Million per day range. We report averages on all our player stats but never the spikes in traffic. It makes me think that we should be much more open about our download statistics regarding Flash Player.
DIGG IT!
8
Comments
Published
at
5:58 AM
.
As an ecosystem we do not share knowledge very well and over time this has essentially created a very large walled garden. If you are in-the-know regarding the ecosystem or sub-segment of it, you can see all the value clearly and know where and how to get what you need to succeed. If you are outside the wall (new to Adobe tools and technologies), you see a very large intimidating wall that looks proprietary at first glance.
DIGG IT!
12
Comments
Published
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
at
8:48 PM
.
On May 1 I passed my 2 year mark at Adobe and I took some time off to think very deeply about what I wanted to focus on moving forward. The thing is that I am very passionate about helping developers succeed and have found myself selecting projects related to training (Yahoo & Google) and events (Adobe MAX, Adobe Engage, 360Flex, Etc). Effective this week I will be migrating from Technical Evangelist to focus on scaling Adobe's events and training in the Platform Business Unit. The change is a great opportunity for me personally and I really believe that we can grow the developer ecosystem/market dramatically with some key changes to our event and training strategy.
DIGG IT!
5
Comments
Published
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
at
4:10 PM
.
Looks like Dell has been working with Flex 3. These widgets are confirmed Flex 3.
DIGG IT!
3
Comments
Published
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
at
10:03 AM
.
I started FlexJobs in Jan of 2007 and the list for Flex related jobs has been growing steadily. After returning from my vacation there were 35 new jobs to review and post and it seems that the subscribers jumped to over 1000.
DIGG IT!
1
Comments
Published
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
at
7:18 AM
.
Since posting on Elixir Flex Components, the ILOG team has gotten a steady stream of feedback on OEM licensing. Today ILOG removed the OEM restrictions for small business and start-ups.
DIGG IT!
5
Comments
Published
Monday, May 19, 2008
at
10:52 AM
.
Google, yes, Google released a pure AS3 Mapping engine last week while I was on vacation. With all the Flash Player 10 news it was not seen by many and essentially overlooked. It is really great to see Google Maps leverage ActionScript 3 and even more exciting to understand the architecture they chose. The Google Maps Flash API is the first major component to work distributed as the core logic remains on google servers and the API you program with is just a simple proxy loading the remote SWF and that SWF talks back to Google to get data and tiles as a service. This has some very distinct benefits:
DIGG IT!
27
Comments
Published
Sunday, May 18, 2008
at
7:16 PM
.
I have been offline for the past 10 days and my blog has been a bit too quiet. I missed the Flash Player 10 Beta, a ton of MAX meetings, and probably something urgent in the office but sometimes you just need to take a break. On this trip I really unplugged and did some amazing things:
DIGG IT!
5
Comments
Published
Saturday, May 10, 2008
at
9:25 AM
.
It seems amazing to me that camera prices have fallen so rapidly yet the cameras are capable of so much more. I am headed on vacation this week and decided to get a new point and shoot camera. Shockingly the same Panasonic Lumix camera I paid for 2 years ago costs 70% less and actually has more features. In the small I got an inexpensive 8MegaPixel camera but in the large I am wondering about the overall market effect of commodity low cost high capacity digital devices. I think we are seeing the arrival of the real digital era where everyone is transferring high quality images using very low cost devices. Add a 2GB memory card to this for $24 and I have a really great camera setup for under $200, scary.
DIGG IT!
12
Comments
Published
Thursday, May 08, 2008
at
1:44 PM
.
Every once in a while I peek over the fence to see what the HTML/JS camps at Adobe are working on and was I in for a suprise. I really believe that the next Dreamweaver release is a killer app for HTML/JS/AJAX design and development. It is rare for me to label something a killer app but I have never seen first class tooling for html/js like this before.
DIGG IT!
6
Comments
Published
Tuesday, May 06, 2008
at
4:41 PM
.
Verizon just released a new Flex 3 application for selling ringtones and ringbacks. The site is excellent and the use of transitions and dynamic data is visually stunning. It is one of the best Flex apps I have seen in a while. It also is also one of the first full ecommerce experiences in Flex that I have seen. You can search, preview, and buy any ringtone or ringback on Verison online. Way cool!
DIGG IT!
11
Comments
Published
at
7:21 AM
.
The Wiki over at opensource.adobe.com is in full swing and recently the States enhancements were posted here I really like the changes as states were so complex to think about and edit without the design view. The new inline States allow you to declare state changes within components using a simple syntax and some new attributes. Before you had to define all the delta values externally within a state tag and this was very hard to edit by hand. Here are a few examples:<!-- Given the states A,B,C -->
<m:states>
<m:State name="A"/>
<m:State name="B"/>
<m:State name="C"/>
</m:states>
<!-- This button will appear in only states A and B -->
<Button label="Click Me" includeIn="A, B"/>
<!-- This button will appear in states A and B -->
<Button label="Button C" excludeFrom="C"/>
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<mx:Application xmlns:mx="library:ns.adobe.com/flex/halo"
xmlns:m="http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009" layout="absolute">
<m:states>
<m:State name="landState"/>
<m:State name="airState"/>
<m:State name="waterState"/>
</m:states>
<mx:VBox id="vbox">
<mx:HBox>
<mx:Button id="land" label="Land" click="currentState='landState'" />
<mx:Button id="air" label="Air" click="currentState='airState'" />
<mx:Button id="water" label="Water" click="currentState='waterState'" />
</mx:HBox>
<mx:CheckBox label="Helicopter" color.airState="0xFF0000"/>
<mx:CheckBox label="Motorcycle" color.landState="0xFF0000" />
<mx:CheckBox label="Car" color.landState="0xFF0000" />
<mx:CheckBox label="Airplane" color.airState="0xFF0000"/>
<mx:CheckBox label="Train" color.landState="0xFF0000" />
<mx:CheckBox label="Boat" color.waterState="0xFF0000"/>
<mx:CheckBox label="Submarine" color.waterState="0xFF0000"/>
</mx:VBox>
</mx:Application>
<mx:Application xmlns:mx="library:ns.adobe.com/flex/halo"
xmlns:m="http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009">
<m:states>
<m:State name="default"/>
<m:State name="glow"/>
</m:states>
<mx:Button label="Button" click="currentState=currentState=='glow'?'':'glow'">
<mx:filters>
<mx:DropShadowFilter distance="9" />
</mx:filters>
<mx:filters.glow>
<mx:GlowFilter/>
</mx:filters.glow>
</mx:Button>
</mx:Application>
<!-- Alternatively the above code could be written using
state specific nodes -->
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<mx:Application xmlns:m="http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009"
xmlns:mx="library:ns.adobe.com/flex/halo">
<m:states>
<m:State name="default"/>
<m:State name="glow"/>
</m:states>
<mx:Button label="Button" click="currentState=currentState=='glow'?'':'glow'">
<mx:filters>
<mx:DropShadowFilter distance="9" includeIn="default" />
<mx:GlowFilter includeIn="glow"/>
</mx:filters>
</mx:Button>
</mx:Application>
DIGG IT!
9
Comments
Published
Monday, May 05, 2008
at
8:42 PM
.
Thank God, the new feeds.adobe.com is up!! It was like someone had turned off the air. Special thanks to the team that put in a ton of work on getting feeds.adobe.com. I know Daniel Taborga, Lily Lee, Christian Cantrell, Mike Chambers, Ben Forta, Jonathan Wall, and many others worked hard to make this happen. Also the time frame for this massive architecture change is really impressive. To go from a single server to 7 inside of 2 weeks time is really amazing. 
DIGG IT!
9
Comments
Published
Saturday, May 03, 2008
at
9:22 AM
.
Last night my girlfriend Linda took me to see a Duran Duran concert in Concord. It was a funny flashback to the 80's and aging rock stars aside, it was great fun. At one point in the concert the band went into a slow song and the lights dimmed causing the audience to pull out their phones and a few remaining lighters. The thing that struck me was there was a single computer on stage, an Apple MacBook Pro, and easily 5,000+ phones in the air. That really hit me and seeing so many programmatic devices with a user interface was really stunning.


DIGG IT!
6
Comments
Published
Thursday, May 01, 2008
at
9:14 AM
.
It is really great to see Adobe open up and todays announcements on the Open Screen Project are nothing short of revolutionary. There are tons of screens out there and today we removed the key barriers to seamless compatibility for any screen, TV, Mobile, Computers, Consoles, DVR's, and all the rest. Developing content for devices is very hard and often the licensing for device runtimes is a huge barrier to use. In removing the barrier for device porting, protocol and format use, and use of the spec to create alternate runtimes it allows Flash Player to reach much farther. It also opens the door to the larger task of format standardization.

Ted on Twitter - @AdobeTed
Ted on Adobe Groups
Ted on LinkedIn
Ted on Facebook
Ted at Adobe