oddhammer

Just putting in a last minute pitch for a good thing:

There’s a FREE Web conference going on this weekend in Raleigh, NC that covers Flex, ColdFusion, AIR, JavaScript, CSS, Ajax, and other web goodness.  The schedule looks good, there’s a networking party Saturday evening, and the hotel rate is decent.  So go.

And bring your business cards…  the next time I’m asked if I know any web gurus looking for work I need some names and numbers. 

My Mac Pro is starting to get kind of dated and I've been lusting after some of the newer/faster systems out there. I'm ambO/Sdextrous and spend my day working back and forth between a pc and a mac and had started to get tired of the minor issues I have working between the two systems so I had considered a tricked out pc with Windows 7. I wasn't too happy with Apple when they decided to change their licensing agreement and shaft Flash developers... that wasn't very cool of them.. Then I saw that Keith Peters went back to the dark side... and now.. well.. let's just say Steve's little rant sealed the deal for me.

So I'm enjoying some of the comments on his "pot calling the kettle black" tirade like this one, and this from icrontic. ha. And it's good to see some of the comments like the ones on this article... lolz.. some people do understand that while HTML5 is a great improvement, it's a very different tool from Flash.

I figure it might be Christmas before I slow down enough to go through the hassle of switching files and everything over to a new system, but when I do get that time I'll probably be getting a nice high end gaming system. One that can play Crysis.

Macromedia has announced the next version of Flash, Dreamweaver, etc..  the new product line is MX 2004
Find out all about it here:  http://www.macromedia.com/software/mx2004/

Macromedia has announced the next version of Flash, Dreamweaver, etc..  the new product line is MX 2004
Find out all about it here:  http://www.macromedia.com/software/mx2004/

I spoke at the Flashkit 2003 conference yesterday in San Jose..  the topic was ActionScript Performance, and it was an attempt to gather together all the “tips” I could find for improving the performance of Actionscript and test them to see if they work or not. 

I spoke at the Flashkit 2003 conference yesterday in San Jose..  the topic was ActionScript Performance, and it was an attempt to gather together all the “tips” I could find for improving the performance of Actionscript and test them to see if they work or not. 

The results are HERE - let me know if you find any errors or have any other tips. 

The talk went well with one exception..  one of the Jupiter Media workers apparently got confused and interrupted me before my time was up.. so I had to wrap it up 2 full minutes early.  Sigh.