Biography
Blog
Recent Posts | All Posts
Tibco PageBus: an event framework for JavaScript
July 01 2009
Tibco PageBus is a free event framework for JavaScript. In this entry I discuss the merits of PageBus, how to implement it, and show a quick example demo I built integrating some HTML, PageBus, and a very simple Flash component. read moreTibco PageBus: an event framework for JavaScript
July 01 2009
Tibco PageBus is a free event framework for JavaScript. In this entry I discuss the merits of PageBus, how to implement it, and show a quick example demo I built integrating some HTML, PageBus, and a very simple Flash component. read moreAttention, Focus, and The Internet
May 22 2009
Distraction is a problem commonly diagnosed in our internet-driven careers in an internet-driven society. The media encourages the conversation, alternately providing tips and tricks on how to increase your productivity while blaming Google for destroying culture or discussing the impossibility of classical genius in a modern time frame. Wading through… read moreNew York Times AIR reader released
May 11 2009
The New York Times released a special reader application built in Adobe AIR this past weekend. It's a pretty slick application, and an example of AIR done right. read moreFlash vs. Silverlight on Smashing Magazine
May 11 2009
Earlier this month Smashing Magazine posted a broad review of Flash and Silverlight. The review covers the way the two products handle things like animation, publishing to the desktop, scripting, small file sizes, socket connections, capturing web-cam content, etc. read moreAardvark - crowd sourcing answers to any question
April 11 2009
While out at SXSW earlier this year I ran into Rob Spiro from Aardvark. Aardvark is a crowd sourcing application that allows its user base to ask contextually based questions of each other through instant message or email without viewing personal information. Rob was nice enough to get me into… read moreVidoop - the best password / captcha / security system on the web
April 11 2009
Vidoop is a User Experience company focused on web security. They offer a set of products and services to provide security to web users and developers, but they take a unique approach to security that provides a much better experience to end users than normal password or captcha systems. Vidoop… read moreSmashing Magazine on Adobe AIR
April 07 2009
Smashing Magazine has a pretty comprehensive collection of AIR resources and tutorials up on their site today. They feature all of the Adobe hosted stuff (official resources, support, free samples, etc.) as well as highlighting some of the better community resources including Scalenine.com, Aptana Studio, and the De MonsterDeBugger. read moreMarch 18 2009
Valleywag isn't entirely wrong - SXSW is one giant party. Just about every major tech company, from Facebook to Google to Frog Design to Digg to Tumblr to Blogher to...well, everyone, had a party, and most also had a major presence on the trade show floor and in the panels. read moreMarch 13 2009
I hear a lot of talk about "best practices" these days, and I'm sure you do too. As design has become a more visibly important differentiator for web development professionals and companies, understanding the "best way" to accomplish any given task has been a big deal, leading to a plethora… read moreDon't Join the "Cult of Done" - Stop Overcommitting
March 12 2009
This week some of my co-workers got really excited by the "Done Manifesto." I love a good manifesto, but I disagree with this one for several (good?) reasons and on a very gut-level. Here's why. read moreEnder Lib: faking threading in Flash
March 06 2009
My fellow developer and friend John Blanco got bored over the weekend and wrote a library for creating and maintaining (fake) thread processes in AS3 for the Flash player. He's calling it Ender Lib, presumably after the great Orson Scott Card series, and you can find the library on Google… read moreFebruary 23 2009
ILOG announced the release of Elixir 2.0 this morning. Elixir is the powerful Flex charting framework available through ILOG. Elixir 2.0 provides several new modules to Flex: a calendar, heat maps, Gannt charts and pivot/OLAP charts. I'm particularly excited about the Gannt charts. I tried to build one of my… read moreFebruary 20 2009
The first official Flex BugQuash will occur Saturday , March 28th, from 10am-8pm EST. What's a BugQuash you ask? A mighty gathering of coding heroes from great to small coming together to fix as many bugs to the Flex SDK as possible in one day. The event is sponsored by… read moreFebruary 04 2009
LovelyCharts, the excellent Flex-based charting framework I blogged about in July of last year, is out of private beta and available to all. Head on over to the site to try it for yourself. read moreRecent Posts | All Posts
