Software, Fitness, and Gaming – Jesse Warden

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  • Mobile: Flash Player 9 vs. Flash Lite 3

    Peter Elst had a good post updating us on the ecosystem of Flash on Mobile. His point about Flash Lite 3 vs. Tamarin-Tracing got me thinking.

    As an American, I’m uber-confused on which VM to hedge my bets on. Do I continue writing components for Flash Lite in AS2 awaiting the day when I’ll actually get a paying gig/job doing it? Or, do I bide my time for Tamarin-Tracing? Or are phones getting fast enough where they can run Flash Player 9 natively? I think the last question is irrelevant because Adobe wouldn’t have spent all that effort on Tamarin-Tracing if it wasn’t valid.

    If you were Steve Jobs, which one would you put on the iPhone?

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  • Going to MIX 2008

    I don’t think I made the business case. Rather, I think my uber-focused CTO wants to see visible proof of Silverlight 2 being a valid platform to build comparable front-ends for video & media players like we already do with Flash Player. So, we’re both hitting Las Vegas in March to attend MIX 2008.

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  • Yahoo AS3 Maps API & FlightAware in Flex: Part Deux of Deuuuuuuux

    Uploaded my source code for the FlightAware app shown in my last entry – source | ZIP. I’ve only done a little documentation; aka, on the header of each class. Keep in mind I wrote this in 20 blazing fast hours with no sleep, so ignore quality & practices. The only thing you should really care about are 2 things.

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  • Yahoo AS3 Maps API & FlightAware in Flex: Part 1 of 2

    Yahoo AS3 Maps API and FlightAwareYahoo released an AS3 version of their Map API. I got to play with it over the weekend. Ted’s got more details. The pro’s are its cheaper than ESRI’s bad ass component, wayyyyyy faster than the Flex 1.5 AS2 one (yes, you can write slow AS3 code), and “feels” very responsive. They also removed the default animations built-in which is nice. While they were a cool effect, they made the map feel slow and un-responsive, and I’m sure made the code really really challenging for the developers at Yahoo to debug.

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