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Twitter on Adobe

Adobe changed its economic guidance and restructured today. The press release has info. I ran a Twitter search on "adobe" and pulled out relevant comments, oldest-first, starting from about 9am Pacific today. It misses some of the earliest ones, and... (translate)

Nested Bindable Property Change (s) not Dispatching CollectionEvent (s)

Property Chain changes are not being dispatched as PCEs in my ArrayCollection. (translate)

And in other late adopter news…

I’ve finally decided to give twitter a try. I actually signed up a while ago just to check out their UI (no intention of using it) but every few months weeks, someone starts following my twitter feed even though there are no tweets whatsoever! *sigh* So I’m going to give it a shot. My handle is [...] (translate)

In the world of AIR has Zinc zunk?

I recently spotted an ad on a website for Zinc (a tool for creating standalone software from Flash content) and was actually kind of surprised to see that they were still around since the release of AIR which does essentially the same things and works with existing software (Zinc’s price tag is $849.99). I was [...] (translate)

The First Commandment: Thou Shalt Not Create Unnecessary Dependence

There are some principles in software development that are taken for granted among, say, Java or Objective C developers, that seems to escape a large number of Flash / Flex developers. The reason for this is possibly that a lot of Flash devs are actually designers who have moved into development (I would say “failed [...] (translate)

600 job cuts at Adobe

Adobe has announced 600 job cuts throughout the company. The news was buried half way through their recently released Q4 2008 fiscal results. Mike Downey, principal evangelist for the Flash, Flex and AIR products is beleived to be one of those laid off as part of the cuts. (translate)

Querying multiple databases within one cfquery

In discussing a possible caching solution at work a suggestion was made to use a secondary database (on the same server) to store some key application data. It’s not really important to describe why we wanted to do this, suffice to say that my concern was if and when the application would need to perform [...] (translate)

Mate Framework for Adobe Flex

I just wanted to share with you a great framework I have been using recently called Mate (pronounced ma-tay). Developed by the guys at ASFusion Mate is a great framework that features MXML declared event handling, dependency injection and best of all it is really easy to use and implement (It even has a way of [...] (translate)

Open Source Mobile Roundup

Tim sent around a link to the VisionMobile report on open source technology in the mobile space, which I really enjoyed. It covers not just the software used at different layers in the stack, it also covers licensing and governance models. Strongly recommended.... (translate)

FOTB Miami, FITC Toronto

Some super early advance notice for a couple of speaking engagements. I will be at the first Flash on the Beach happening on this side of the pond, specifically in Miami. Also happy to be returning... Labs is the Big Spaceship dev team's playground, where we share ideas and discuss code. Check out labs.bigspaceship.com for more discussion, as well as some of the tools we've built! (translate)

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