This is the blog of Jesse Warden, a Rich Internet Application Architect. He specializes in using Flex and Flash to create Rich Internet Applications.
I’m glad Flash will be shielded from this. The words “standards” and “Rich Internet Application” feel like oil and water to me. While I believe usability standards are of the utmost need right now, I disagree on standardizing MXML; it’s already follows the XML schema, is well formed, and it validates against its […]
Back at BellSouth, we were creating alternatives to Central to get Flash on users’ desktops to enable us to provide them with our services and BellSouth’s branding. It was pretty fun, and I got to explore a wide array of technology during some R&D phases.
One of the alternatives to Flash + mProjector, or Flash […]
Nicolas Cannasse, creator of MTASC, the open source Flash compiler, has just released a public preview of his haXe programming language & compiler. It has a full working parser with type checking, as well as a complete language reference. The language looks a lot like ActionScript 3, but has different datatypes, namely enumerators.
The […]
Finally, Yahoo! has made good on their ability to showcase the Flash Platform. They built Yahoo! Maps using Macromedia Flex. If anyone remembers, part of the Yahoo! Toolbar episode was in addition to Macromedia receiving funding for hosting the Yahoo! Toolbar installation on the Flash Player installation page at Macromedia, this symbolized a […]
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Yahoo! Inc. and Microsoft Corp. today announced a landmark agreement to connect users of their consumer instant messaging (IM) services on a global basis.
Why should I care? I can already talk to MSN users, Yahoo users… AND AOL users using Trillian. 1 program, 3 communities communicated to transparently.
We tech geeks […]
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