I’m sure I’m late to this party…but what the heck, I just installed Ubuntu 9.10 on an old laptop (Dell Inspiron 700m) and it’s great! The laptop, which was a nifty little machine 4 years ago (12″ screen, 2Gig proc, 1Gig RAM) was so slow it was useless – I mean, it took 30 seconds [...]
I gave a lecture last night (Oct. 28) on the current state of Flash – what’s happening with CS4 (inverse kinematics, motion editor), CS5 (iPhone porting), Flex/Flash Builder, FlashLite, etc. I’ve made a pdf of my powerpoint slides available. (If link not working due to WordPress weirdness, just try: ftp.evili.com/WhatIsFlash.pdf)
Looks like they’ve added a lot of features that bring it up to speed vs. Flash/Flex, including HD video, new bitmap and 3D APIs, and support for SEO (which looks to be about the same as swfObject) x-platform desktop RIAs. Big upside potential IMHO is that you can code Silverlight in C#. Big downside – [...]
Running svn (subclipse) via the Flex Builder can be problematic; one common problem is when you update an entire project, you’ll also get somebody else’s html and project files, which frequently have data local to the user’s machine and won’t work on other folk’s machines. Though there’s no clear way (and damn there should be) [...]
“We are standing at the precipice of ontological chaos.”- buzzphrase at Where 2.0
I’m at my wits end hearing people speak in an open-ended way about widgets, as in, “as part of that campaign, we’ll build the client a widget.” Without a modifier, the word “widget” doesn’t mean anything – or, more accurately, it can mean [...]
Currently, all RIA techologies require plug-ins of some sort.
Microsoft SilverLight will be able to run cross-platform, and will require a plug-in download. Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)will only run on Vista and XP SP2 (if the user downloads the .NET 3.0 framework, while JavaFX is still in alpha development, but will no doubt require some kind [...]
Welcome. My name’s Bernard Meisler, I’m the Technology Strategist for a rapidly-growing ad agency located in the Bay Area. Previously I was a software developer at MTV-Networks in NYC. I taught various courses in multimedia/interactivity at NYU for 10 years (till I moved out here last January), and also ran my own consulting company for [...]