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This is the blog of Jesse Warden, a Rich Internet Application Architect. He specializes in using Flex and Flash to create Rich Internet Applications.

Archive for the 'Director' Category

Post Microsoft MIX 2008 Thoughts

Monday, March 17th, 2008

If you are in a hurry, here are some links with excerpts about the section.
Contents

Introduction - What and Why MIX?
Conference Grounds - Where was MIX and how did it go down
DoubleClick - Syndication ready Silverlight
Have we seen this before? - “Dude, Flash did that years ago.”
Silverlight Adaptive Streaming - Curious about how the buffering works.
Silverlight […]

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I have a problem going backwards. When I learned attachMovie in Flash 5, that function was the death knell for my Director career. “Create something from nothing!?!?” :: queue Quake sound :: “GODLIKE!!! (nsfw)“.
In Director, everything you wanted to be on a depth had to have had something there originally, put there […]

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Invalidation Strategies for Flash Player

Wednesday, January 31st, 2007

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Had the honor of meeting up with an old friend yesterday. Chris Skogen, one of the talented gents at Gizmolabs, was my manager & tech lead when I worked at BellSouth. He’s an extremely talented programmer, doing a lot of C, C++, assembly, and Java. Below is some of his team’s […]

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Yahoo Toolbar with Shockwave

Thursday, June 3rd, 2004

Went to Yugop yesterday and had to install Shockwave on this machine because it’s new. However, after going through the don’t-remember-my-page-and-close-my-browser-you-coohh#$#$ installer, I noticed part of the installation process had the option of installing Yahoo toolbar. Maybe I’ve been out of the Director community and missed this detail, but why the integration? […]

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Lamenting Jingo

Tuesday, January 13th, 2004

So I’m sitting there watching Breeze, it’s Live by the way,
and it’s obviously solved it’s technical challenges with ease, a mad “hurray”!
We learn about Director MX 2004 and all it has new to offer, and even before it’s begun,
your having the urge to fill Macromedia’s coffer.
Scarfing on pizza, downing mad soda,
I see familiar names from […]

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