Last week three of my colleagues an I drove from Munich to Hannover to visit CeBIT. This was my first time at CeBIT so outside of knowing that its a huge exhibit and the little that I read on their website, I didn't have anything else to go on. CeBIT is the world's largest trade fair showcasing digital IT and telecommunications solutions for home and work environments. The key target groups are users from industry, the wholesale/retail sector, skilled trades, banks, the services sector, government agencies, science and all users passionate about technology. CeBIT offers an international platform for comparing

Now third-party cloud-based apps can supplement Google’s internal online apps. With 50 vendors including Zoho, NetSuite, Skytap, and Atlassian participating in this program a new level of business-to-business marketing seems to have materialized.  The idea behind this launch is “to help users get more applications for Google Apps from third-party developers”, according to Google senior [...]

With the final day of of 360 Flex behind us, I give some short synopsis of the presentations I attended and some thoughts on the general trends in 360 Flex as a whole.

A little Rubik’s cube, a little Pool action, a little strategy, and you’ve got Racked! The cool thing about Racked is that I came up with it by putting our pool balls on a wire grid and making it up with my daughter Riley – we ended up playing for 3hrs straight the first night.  I [...]

We've updated our AMF vs Web Services benchmark test and posted it on our website. If you are interested in giving this a try in your own environment, client and server source code is provided. Just go to this link:http://bit.ly/bYEGNKHave fun!

About the author: Matt Snider is the lead frontend engineer for Mint.com (now a part of Intuit), where he makes extensive use of YUI in the presentation layer. He is also the author of a popular blog on JavaScript. Matt contributed the YUI 2 Storage Utility to YUI and is an active community [...]

This AIR application demonstrates how to download, pause and resume downloads of larger files(mp3, flv, etc) and save to the user's computer. Big Thanks to Benjamin Dobler for his blog post Resumable Downloads with AIR. Sample Files: ResumableDownloader.air (AIR, 524 KB)

Payback’s a Queen! Nate got a special surprise in the middle of his session at 360|Flex. This should teach you a) don’t fuck with me and b) don’t do a presentation on your birthday. Happy birthday Nate! P.S. Apologies for the shaky camera work, there were plenty of other video cameras in the room recording (including the [...]

I have created a small file template for creating custom Event classes quickly and easily using IntelliJ IDEA. Simply go to Preferences > [IDE Settings] File Templates > Create a new template [click the + icon] > Name it i.e. ActionScript Event | Give it an extension i.e. as | enter the below script [...]

Following some feedback on my first release of ParticleLab 2.0, I decided to rebuild my node based user interface from the ground up. I feel the main issue with my original node based particle editor was the sheer size of the nodes meant navigating through the scenes was quite an unfriendly experience. To that end, I've stuck with the detail panel but added a node based UI for navigation and selection.This now offers an immediate view of the entire scene and illustrates the relationships between all the objects. Although the UI doesn't yet allow users to create relationships, it can

My slides but not the code made it up on the 360Flex usb drive, I didn’t figure that out until today when I was giving my talk. So my talk at 360Flex in San Jose was called: OptimizeIt - Actionscript tips for iPhone games. It really is a bunch of Actionscript optimizations and some of the [...]

As promised, here are the slides for "Ouch! It hurts when i do that." presentation first delivered at 360Flex San Jose, March 10th, 2010.

A batch of interviews from Day 2 of the 360 Flex conference in San Jose . Contact E-mail Jeffry and John Follow us on Twitter

After completing my preso at 360|Flex San Jose I realized how many people are having problems starting with Test Driven Development (TDD). I had many people walking up to me and telling me about their interest of starting using TDD and how it’s hard to get started. I decided to share my knowledge. [...]

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As we build out our capability to deliver innovative, customer-centric experiences with our platform technologies upon our enterprise technologies, we're creating a Solution Center in our San Jose office. The solution center is an incredible innovation-space, where a team of designers, developers and quality engineers will work together to create incredible experiences alongside Adobe partners, on behalf of some of our most strategic customers. If you're a developer, designer or quality engineer that thinks they could be a pivotal part of this initiative, then please check out Peter Martin's blog post and drop him a note. Note for Recruiters Please...

Last month at TED, Gary Flake showcased "Pivot", which is an incredible visualization approach to navigating large sets of data on the web. If you've seen the Seadragon demonstrations before, you'll recognize this as a novel application of Seadragon. There a number of reasons this demo catches me - it's a weaving together of so many things that are current for me right now, namely innovation through user-experience design, thinking about Cloud technology as a platform for innovation and the Semantic Web as a trend upon Cloud technology that is going to fundamentally alter our ability to transact on the...

We’re pleased to announce the YUI 3 Gallery Contest 2010. Thanks to our friends at the Yahoo! Developer Network, we have a conference pass to the sold-out JSConf 2010 to offer. We’re pairing that with a $500 gift certificate to Expedia.com to help the prize winner get back and forth to Virginia for [...]

Ready for Flex 4? Get jamming on it right away by ordering the Flex 4 In Action early edition which gives you access to the rough cut chapters as we write ‘em. If you’re interested, head on over to the Flex 4 In Action MEAP page, and use discount code dotd0305. [...]

Well, so far 2010 has really started of with a bang and our office is starting to get busier than we can handle. We have had our heads down, working hard on a few Adobe AIR apps, some pretty cool Flash development on embedded devices, as well as some mobile development for the iPhone. It’s [...]