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Monthly Archives: August 2008

I’m Back!

Leave a Comment Posted by on August 30, 2008

Cable TV,MSU,Telecom,GigE,HDTV Well, it’s been a really busy summer.  I haven’t been blogging too much lately; my office job has been keeping me really busy. My department officially launched our new cable television system this last week.  This was a huge, huge project for me.  I’ve been working on it for well over a year, [...]

Telecom

360|Flex Sessions being posted

1 Comment Posted by on August 20, 2008

360|Flex,Flex,Adobe,AMP,Training As a part of the new ‘hyper-drive’ project that Adobe is running, all of the sessions at 360|Flex in San Jose are being recorded.  All of the videos are HD quality, with the audio and video directly from the speakers. More information is available from Ted Patrick’s website (http://www.onFlex.org). All the videos are being [...]

Adobe, Flex

Degrafa and Flex 4 are now one!

10 Comments Posted by on August 18, 2008

Derafa,Flex,Thermo,Adobe,Gumbo Flex 4 will be using the Degrafa framework instead of doing separate paths and projects.  This is really exciting news, as the code that is generated from Thermo will be compatible with the Degrafa engine, which also means that code exported from Fireworks will also have Degrafa compatibilities. Congrats to the Degrafa team!  Excellent [...]

Adobe, Flex

New stuff with Astro / Flash Player 10

Leave a Comment Posted by on August 18, 2008

Flash Player,Astro,Flash,Adobe,360|Flex,360Flex So, some new information on Astro (Flash Player 10) is leaking out, including some things mentioned at the 360Flex Keynote… True 3D — X,Y,Z planes Access to filesystem (without hitting a server). Direct access to sound buffer! Pixel Benders, filters, etc. Hardware Acceleration Advanced Text formatting A video that polyGeek captured of the [...]

Adobe, Flex

Flex Authority is out!!

Leave a Comment Posted by on August 17, 2008

Magazine,Flex,360|Flex So, I finally got my copy of Flex Authority, and man does it rock!  Not only does it have my article (yes, I’m writing a column now), but it features articles from some of the greats like John Wilker and Peter Bell. If you are at 360|Flex, make sure to grab your copy; otherwise, [...]

Adobe, Flex

I’ll be there in heat, soul, and now in person!

Leave a Comment Posted by on August 13, 2008

360|Flex,Flex,Adobe,Conference Yup, i’ll be going to 360|Flex next week in San Jose!  It was a stretch, but after some help from some friends, I’m going to be able to make it! I’ll see you all at the best Flex party, erm, conference, on earth!

Flex

We’ve lost the war.

Leave a Comment Posted by on August 12, 2008

email,spam,scammer,virus,broken After I called the second customer for the day to find out if they had received an e-mail I had wrote them, I relized that email’s usefulness has pretty much come to an end.  I’ve now been reduced to relying on a second medium to make sure that my communication of the first medium [...]

Personal

Confessions of a Conference Host

5 Comments Posted by on August 3, 2008

Conference Planning,FlexCamp,BarCamp,Conferences Well, the first Michigan FlexCamp is over.  I told myself, that if I made it to today, I must have accomplished SOMETHING.  Well I’m here I will have to admit, although the conference ran pretty smoothly, the days and weeks up to the start of it, really felt like a scene from Wayne’s [...]

Personal

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