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.
I just put together a quick tutorial on sending large text strings out from a SWF to JavaScript check it out.. BIG STRING TEST
I just put together a quick tutorial on sending large text strings out from a SWF to JavaScript check it out.. BIG STRING TEST
Events in the Flash 7 Player.. . If you combine these with Central I think you can see some interesting Flash applications that could emerge.
Events in the Flash 7 Player.. . If you combine these with Central I think you can see some interesting Flash applications that could emerge.
