Returned from FITC Amsterdam a few days ago and finally feel like I’ve recovered from the 9 hour time difference (among other things). Definitely had a good time and learned a few things I’ll likely apply in future projects. Specifically, the Papervision3D workshop, though a bit disorganized, was a nice precursor to P3D development. I [...]

Twitter mode: watching Kevin Lynch deliver the keynote for the AIR Bus Tour in Seattle.

This post is not intended to be a bash on Apollo - I am actually very excited about Apollo and am anxious to work with it. That said, a public release of v1 isn’t expected until mid 2007 and won’t have many of the bells and whistles we are all drooling over. So, what can [...]

Over the past couple of weeks I have attempted yet again to incorporate Eclipse into my workflow (primarily Flash/ActionScript development) and have again been turned away at the gate. I spent most of this time installing, uninstalling and reinstalling the various flavors of Eclipse and Flex Builder and waiting FOREVER for Software Updates. I say [...]

Every few months or so I find myself downloading and installing the newest version of Eclipse. I tell myself that I really need to unify my development environment and given Adobe’s push toward Eclipse based IDEs, that I would be best served adopting Eclipse as my primary code editor. However, after fumbling around with it [...]

In an earlier post I asked the question “Why use Flash for site development?” and went on to give a list of valid reasons why Flash could be a suitable platform for (RIA) site development. I presented a similar list to a client I am working with on a (perhaps overly) rich internet app. After [...]