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AOL is shutting down a bunch of properties. Frankly, AOL is probably not the kind of company you look to when you think of leading edge. But they’re a significant player on the web with a very high user base and they’ve got a lot of valuable properties including their AOL instant messenger stuff […]

Rob just sent me a link to PlayCrafter which is a suite of games built entirely in Flex 3. It’s a really cool, customized example of a Flex application and as you browse around the site you’ll see that there doesn’t appear to be a standard component anywhere. They’ve basically taken Flex and designed it […]

Heh. I always love when I find out stuff we’re doing by clicking on a Techmeme link. I must not have been paying attention, but it looks like we’re adding Sony content to Adobe Media Player. As Liz from NewTeeVee notes, it’s mostly old stuff like Jerry Maguire and Men in Black, but who doesn’t […]

Hiromi made it safely to Seattle last Tuesday. I managed to stay away from the office all day, though I did a little bit of work during Hiromi’s inevitable afternoon crash.

Though I arguably had time to do something more elaborate, we kept it simple, mostly due to the warm weather Seattle’s had the good fortune to encounter for the last few weeks.

Grapefruit segments, red onion, soft chevre

We wanted something refreshing, so I segmented some nice ruby red grapefruit, sliced a little red onion, and sprinkled on a touch of salt. With a little drizzle of good olive oil, some freshly ground pepper, and a few dabs of soft chevre, this is perfect for a warm summer night. If it weren’t so much work to segment a grapefruit, it would be almost no effort at all.

Stuffed eggplant with farro

In spite of the warm weather, I did turn on the oven. Both Hiromi and I have a weakness for stuffed eggplant, so I make variations on the theme on a regular basis when eggplant is in season.

When I make stuffed eggplant as a main dish, I typically use rice, but this time I elected to make it with farro, a nutty variant of spelt. It was gently seasoned with fresh rosemary, but works well even when the rosemary is more assertive.

This version is made with that same soft chevre along with some mozzarella, but I like almost any kind of goat cheese along with a mellow cheese that readily melts.

I’ve managed to keep us incredibly busy most of Hiromi’s first week, but we actually have part of the upcoming weekend free, which is absolutely shocking. Somehow, I doubt the nice holes in our schedules will last…

Juan Sanchez took the weekend to check out some of the new skinning capabilities in Gumbo (Flex 4). The first one is kind of an intro and compares and contrasts the Flex 4 versus Flex 3 model. The second one uses a new Gumbo build and uses some of the transitions. Both are well worth […]

While out on the lake this weekend, I came across this sign:

So nice. I love how the neighbors not only call out the homeowner but the architect as well. Wrecking a neighborhood is a team process.
Here’s a shot of the offending house. It’s tough to tell how overbearing the concrete wall is […]

Holy hell. I’ve been tearing my hair out all night trying to figure out how to make a fully transparent and chrome-less native window using the mx:Window class. Luckily, thanks to Bradical from this post, I found the solution. You just need to set showFlexChrome equal to False in your mx:Window component. So quick mini-tutorial […]

As I’ve mentioned before, I didn’t come from the Flash world. I got hooked on the Macromedia juice via ColdFusion and Flex. I was always jealous of the Flash guys/gals because they could create some really cool stuff. So I was happy when Flex came out and we started seeing some “developer Flash” instead of […]

J Wynia posted a pretty good (if semi-hacky) tutorial on how to get AIR applications running in Ubuntu 64. Like every other 64 bit question aimed at Adobe, I have no idea what the status of official 64 bit support for AIR is, but hopefully this gets you part of the way there.

Big congratulations to the eBay Desktop team on hitting the 1,000,000 download mark. The eBay application was one of the very first applications we showed off and even though I admit to getting a little tired of seeing it demoed, it quickly gave people the gist of what we were talking about with this newfangled […]