So, for the last couple of weeks I’ve been playing with the very cool Papervision3D library for Flash. More specifically, I’ve been mucking around in the Effects branch of version 2.0 alpha, code-named GreatWhite. One of the things I wanted to do was create a dynamic text field on a plane. Luckily, I found this post, which [...]
My buddy Chris Rebstock just posted on a project that he released to the world today. Read his post to learn more about it. Of course, I’ve had access to it for some time and I can say that it has made my life much easier. Plus, if you read his post I’ll tell you [...]
Found a great Flex resource tonight at http://www.searchcoders.com. They even created their own AIR application, which, I must say, is very impressive. I have a feeling I’ll be spending a lot of time with the app and the site.
My suspicions concerning Apollo were confirmed tonight, much sooner than I thought, with the release of Adobe AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime), formerly Apollo and Flex 3 Moxie beta. Get the scoop over at onflex.org and head over to Adobe Labs to download both. If Moxie is as half as good as Ted Patrick made it [...]
In the final installment of his weeklong series on Flex 3 “Moxie”, Ted Patrick wrote about the Apollo specific additions to the upcoming Flex update. Interestingly, many parts of the screen shots he included in the post have file names blurred out. Could it be that Adobe will be unveiling Apollo’s real name when they [...]
Before I question his sanity, I will disclose that I mostly agree with everything Michael Arrington says and writes. He knows his stuff…usually. Michael recently wrote a post in which he made what I think are outrageous assertions concerning Microsoft’s Silverlight and Adobe’s Flash and Flex. The following quote from the post particularly shocked me: [...]
According to this story, Microsoft is preparing to open source parts of their recently announced Silverlight framework. Why do I get the feeling that Microsoft has a team of people sitting around waiting for Adobe to do anything noteworthy so that they can immediately start working on copying it?
Mike Chambers’ latest blog post hints that Apollo, or at least pieces of Apollo, may go open source. This on the heels of last night’s / today’s news that some of the Flex framework will be open sourced under the Mozilla Public License (MPL). Much has been written already about how great of a deal [...]
Adobe has finally given us developers something to work with. The alpha version of Apollo was released tonight on Labs. Download and rejoice. And love the fact that they’re still not giving us file access.
