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While doing research for my Insid­e­RIA post, I came across a bevy of awe-inspiring exam­ples of multi-touch. Note that not all of these are Flash-based, but still amaz­ing nonethe­less. I’ve tried to cat­e­go­rize them as best I could, though admit­tedly I have been through so many, that I may have mis­la­beled or improp­erly linked some. Don’t shoot me if  I did! Read the rest of this entry →

[Ed. Note: I was going to be all cute and try to draw some con­cep­tual box art, but I’ll leave that to some­one with more time. ]

Well, it’s that time of year again. The time for us all to wager on what we think will be unveiled at MAX. A few peo­ple have already weighed in, but the one thing I haven’t seen guessed at yet (prob­a­bly because the like­li­hood is low) is the announce­ment of a Flash Plat­form Suite. I know I’m not the first per­son to think of this, but I haven’t seen it com­mit­ted to paper yet. So I would like to hear the Community’s opin­ion: Flash­ers, Flex­ers, and CFers, what would you want in an Adobe Flash Plat­form Suite if such a thing(s) were to ever come into exis­tence? Prod­ucts like Flex Builder, Cold­Fu­sion and other Flash Plat­form appli­ca­tions are all cur­rently sold sep­a­rately, and we have yet to hear men­tion of  how Flash Cat­a­lyst or Cold­Fu­sion Builder will be pack­aged. This is all in pure fun, of course. We have no idea if any such options will ever become com­mer­cially avail­able. So, with that dis­claimer out of the way, let’s spec­u­late! Read the rest of this entry →

Every­one codes dif­fer­ently and has their own way that they like to pro­gram, myself included. So, I thought I would take a sec­ond to share the typog­ra­phy choices I made for cod­ing Action­Script and why.
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There are a num­ber of unset­tling trends in the world of web devel­op­ment, and one of them is not HTML5.  One major one is the num­ber of for­merly “cred­i­ble” web news enti­ties tout­ing HTML5 as the sole and right­eous assas­sin of Flash. Since Google I/O, a devel­op­ers con­fer­ence aimed at pro­mot­ing and demon­strat­ing new Google tech­nolo­gies and prod­ucts, there have been a flurry of mis­in­formed, thinly researched arti­cles pro­claim­ing that we should go ahead and start mak­ing bur­ial arrange­ments for the Flash Plat­form. I’ve already touched on this once, before Google I/O, but since the web infor­ma­tion giant has openly encour­aged the adop­tion and stan­dard­iza­tion of HTML5, tech media sites and oth­ers who seem­ingly have been wish­ing for some­thing like this, have decided to post some of the most uncred­i­ble, bla­tantly one-sided, and down­right wrong pieces of “jour­nal­ism” I’ve seen since the 9th grade. Need evi­dence?
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