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I gave a talk today at an all-company meeting over at MSNBC on the subject of “news ecosystems” — the main point being that in order to produce the best news experiences in the world, you need to think of your audience as much more than just a passive sponge for your content. Passive […]

Yahoo is doing really great things for the Flash community. Today they released ASTRA (ActionScript Toolkit for Rich Applications), a set of Flex and Flash components that are meant to compliment the components that shipped with Flash CS3 and the components of the Flex Framework.
The Flash components include some great things like a Tree Component, […]

I’ll admit it, reading Jesse Warden’s post gave me a bit of nostalgia in thinking about the old days of Flex and the community. I can remember when Matt Chotin was all over Flexcoders. You could email at any time of day or night and he’d respond and help you out. Ely Greenfield actually had […]

Ted blogged about Firebrand.com but I didn’t get a chance to check it out until tonight and now I wish I would have waited. It’s actually the most ridiculous premise ever: watch commercials over and over again. But they cherry pick the best commercials so it’s one of the more entertaining RIAS that I’ve seen. […]

I’m not going to lie, I need to be able to debug my applications. It’s one of the reason that Ajax was such a pain for me. Firebug is great but nothing comes close to the debugger in Flex. I make enough stupid mistakes that having a debugger just makes life easier for me and […]

I was playing around with the NativeWindow API the past couple of days and I ran into a roadblock. With Native Windows you create them and then you’re supposed to be able to add stuff to the display list using the addChild() method. But when I tried to add any kind of Flex Component, […]

In an article at USA Today titled Seniors singing hip tunes a must-see at Sundance, I spotted this photo:

Is it me, or does the woman in the upper-left look like she could be John Oliver’s (of The Daily Show fame) grandmother?

This is part 2 of a series on capturing everything. Previous entry: capture everthing: buckets.
My mind rarely seems to stick to one thing very well. Dang, this coffee is good. I need to work this Coldplay album back into my rotation. My foot is falling asleep. I wonder whatever happened to that ventriloquist dummy I […]

My fiancée and I returned from a week-long trip to Arizona this morning. We flew out last Saturday and spent a good amount of time sleeping, which I think makes for a very good vacation. When we weren’t sleeping, we spent time with her family, and — given that her family members are getting older, dispersing around the globe and having babies — such occurrences are getting harder to come by, and are therefore that much more rewarding when they happen. Both my fiancée and I got sick toward the latter half of the trip, but it was worth it to see everyone and find a chance to make up for time lost over the holidays last month.

One of the highlights of the trip was spending our eight-year anniversary together and eating lunch at Duck and Decanter, the sandwich shop we ate at on the very first day we were together.

Tomorrow, it’s back to the daily grind — and back to weather in which the sun isn’t such a major player.

This has been an interesting weekend. After my awesome user group tour I hosted a hundred developers, marketing maestros, PR people and legal minds here at Adobe’s Fremont office to create a startup. After the first night I thought it was going to be a disaster but we have some really smart and resilient people […]