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AIR mobile and the mystery that awaits us!

Posted on 17 February, 2010 at 10:20pm with no comments


somerandomdude: I’ve been working on my first AIR app for the past month and I’m completely sold. It’s not perfect for everything, but it’s damned good.

Posted on 19 November, 2009 at 2:35pm with Comments Off

I’ve been working on my first AIR app for the past month and I’m completely sold. It’s not perfect for everything, but it’s damned good.


I’m Back From Boston – Where to Next?

Posted on 8 June, 2008 at 9:23pm with 4 comments

I just got back from my vacation from Boston and it was a blast. I have a lot of energy that I would like to devote into writing as well as finishing up some projects which are 95% complete and just need a little extra love to get out the door. I (theoretically) will have more free time on my hands – so if I actually use that time well, I could get these projects out in the near future.

Vacations are always great to pull your head out of the fog and look at what is going on around you with a bit more clarity. With some of that free time, I put a lot of thought into what I have been up to for the past couple years and what I want to be up to in the next couple years to come. I have realized that a lot of changes probably should occur. I have a fairly strong feeling that I will be spending less of my free time working in Processing and Flash and more so in Django, jQuery and AIR.

Lastly, I am deeply interested in finding some folks interested in general collaboration. I have worked in a very solitary manner for the past 3 or 4 years now and I think the benefits which I felt it has brought me no longer apply. While I am interested in spending more time in the technologies I mentioned above, I am just eager to work together with some smart folks on some good ideas. Drop me a line if you’re interested.


Why I (Still) Think Silverlight Should Fail

Posted on 14 May, 2008 at 9:51am with 19 comments

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A while back, I wrote a small article about why I felt Silverlight should fail. The writeup generated a lot of good conversation and a bit of ire from Silverlight supporters (such as this example) so I thought it would be beneficial to write a followup. Let me try to make this clear, I am not a Flash fanboy. While I use Flash to pay the bills, I have written about my concerns with Flash. It is my belief that use of Flash on the web (and other RIA technologies) will continue to dwindle as open-source solutions that provide similar solutions take their place. Even if Silverlight usurps Flash (something I greatly doubt), there may not be much of a kingdom to reign upon once they do. I think Adobe sees this shift, I am unsure if Microsoft does.
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