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Thoughts on my first days with Effective UI

Sitting here midway through day two, i gotta say, EUI (I had UM, there, oops, was talking about them, guess the initials stuck in my brain. UM is certainly a cool group too, but not my employer, LOL) is a pretty damn cool place. Coming in to say hi to the crew i already knew [...]

My next new adventure begins

This week, at 360|Flex I accepted a job. Not just any job, what I believe will be THE job. No Tom and I aren’t quitting our day jobs to do 360|Flex, in all likely hood, that ain’t gonna happen for a long while, if ever, who knows. Rather, I’ve accept a job at as Community [...]

on my way to the Industry Leader and Creative Media Summit

Packing can be so stressful. I always worry I’ll run out of underwear! I’m getting read to head to SFO for Adobe’s Industry Leader and Creative Media Summit. I’m not entirely sure what it means, but sounds fun nonetheless. It should be exciting, maybe rubbing elbows whomever Adobe thinks is an industry leader :) My [...]

Session Survey update

I’m really enjoying working on this thing, I really hope other conference organizers can take it and 1. make it better, and 2. make use of it for their events. If for no other reason, than to stop using so much paper. I’ve been working on it a lot this week, while I figure out [...]

the death of Flash Forward

The news this week is that Lynda.com, long time organizer of Flash Forward, has handed over (sold? How much?) ownership to Metalliq, a design shop big in Flash, Flex, Silverlight, etc. (I’ll admit I know very little beyond what the site says and what I’ve heard about Metalliq) I’m not really that surprised, Flash Forward [...]

What’s the best way to Open Source a project

I’m still working on cleaning up the Survey app to release to the Open Source Community. I’m putting in a few more features I think it should have as a minimum set, but I’m curious. What’s the best way to release? SQL scripts? Dummy data? I’m leaning towards just SQL scripts. The Dummy data I [...]

SQLite and AIR apps with Cairngorm

Having never done any SQLite stuff prior to the session survey, building it was a definite learning experience. The hardest part of building with SQLite I think, is working with existing data. Writing data for later retrieval, cake. retrieving "offline" data, that was a bit more labor. To start, populating the SQLite DB, isn’t fun. [...]

Ready for my next project.

I wrapped up my stint with Ribbit right before leaving for 360|Flex Atlanta, so now that I’, back in town I’m ready to get started on my next adventure. I’m always open to Flex Dev projects, bring ‘em on. I’m in Denver, but travel ain’t no biggy :) But sorry, I’m not moving. My ideal [...]

360|Flex Session Survey App

I’m looking for some ideas on what everyone would like to see in the Session Survey. Give me your ideas… So I’m spending some of my down hours while I work on my next gig working on the session Survey App. Our launch during the conference went ok, a few bugs, nothing too bad. Now [...]

Holy crap I’m being followed!

Saw this on TUAW According to some research from Mindset Media, Mac owners are: to be perfectionists to use notebooks to use teeth whitening products to drive station wagons to pay for downloaded music to go to Starbucks care about "green" products and the environment to own a hybrid car and last but not least [...]

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