Archive for the ‘AIR’ Category

The State of Flash – SofTech Lecture
October 29, 2009

I gave a lecture last night (Oct. 28) on the current state of Flash – what’s happening with CS4 (inverse kinematics, motion editor), CS5 (iPhone porting), Flex/Flash Builder, FlashLite, etc. I’ve made a pdf of my powerpoint slides available. (If link not working due to WordPress weirdness, just try: ftp.evili.com/WhatIsFlash.pdf)

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Silverlight 3 is here
July 16, 2009

Looks like they’ve added a lot of features that bring it up to speed vs. Flash/Flex, including HD video, new bitmap and 3D APIs, and support for SEO (which looks to be about the same as swfObject) x-platform desktop RIAs. Big upside potential IMHO is that you can code Silverlight in C#. Big downside – [...]

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What the Heck is a Widget Anyway?
July 10, 2007

“We are standing at the precipice of ontological chaos.”- buzzphrase at Where 2.0 I’m at my wits end hearing people speak in an open-ended way about widgets, as in, “as part of that campaign, we’ll build the client a widget.” Without a modifier, the word “widget” doesn’t mean anything – or, more accurately, it can [...]

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