It’s enough to warm the cockles of one’s heart. ActionScript nerds around the globe can celebrate their graduation to “real programmer” status (whatever that means).
I’d seen reference to this around the time of Tamarin announcement, but its nice to be reminded and see a link to the source. The big question is what’s going [...]
I’ve tried not to get too riled up over the demise of the ECMAScript 4 draft spec and the political accusations that have been chucked back and forth. You know, the whole MS, Yahoo, Apple vs Adobe, Mozilla, Google soap opera. Anyway, I’ve read quite a bit of the inflammatory stuff over the last couple [...]
LibraryThing’s Tim Spalding might just have renewed my belief in transparency. Skip the spin, deliver the truth and stand by your convictions with competitors and users.
Transparency has been a trendy web 2.0 business tenet for awhile and I’ve been a huge fanboi, but after reading Tim’s post I realized I had only seen half [...]
While converting a Jing swf to h.264 with AfterEffects I was really struggling to get video that looked reasonable using the h.264 profile built into AE. I was massively ramping up bitrate settings without any noticeable improvements. Strangely things looked ok when played back in QuickTime, but not so great in Flash Player. After a [...]
I’ve got a bit of a love hate relationship with Snackr, Narciso Jaramillo’s AIR based rss ticker (watch the screencast below to see Snackr in action). Watching feeds roll along the ticker fuels an already dangerous information addiction, but I’ve never quite been able to justify having the constant bombardment of external information while working [...]
Just saw the news about Flash Player 10 64bit Linux, 64bit FreeBSD and 32bit FreeBSD come across the wire. At this point it looks like Tinic is actually not a human. Can we get him on the iPhone player pronto? Loan him out to Apple or something…tell him he can’t do it or threaten to [...]
Another great snag from Twitter (make sure you click on the “love it”, “hate it” , “more bitching” links).
There are a few things to mull over here. First off, Adobe should buy the site and integrate it prominently into adobe.com. In fact, every company should have one of these pages. It should be a place [...]
Dear Rands, you are an asshole. You’re too funny and keep stealing all of my most private thoughts and posting them on twitter. ;-)
Seriously, I get so tired of all of the agile consulting gurus peddling their snake oil. Nothing makes up for having a game plan, knowing your market and customers and having refined [...]
As any hardcore gamer will tell you, GPUs rule and it turns out our brain has one monster GPU feeding it data and forming impressions. The importance of visual communication / learning was reinforced when I stumbled on a little something, something called Gestalt psychology (everyone’s seen Gestalt tests of some sort and I remember [...]
Holy freak, the Silverlight Beta 2 plug-in install is 17 MB.
I’m assuming things will get optimized down a bit for the final release, but it sure doesn’t look it will ever be a skinny plug-in. On the plus side, the plug-in for both Safari and Firefox was included rather than having two separate installs [...]