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Everything you know about CSS is wrong.

Posted by James - 31/10/08 at 09:10:04 pm

http://www.digital-web.com/articles/everything_you_know_about_CSS_is…

(A very belated) Flash on the Beach 2008 days 2 & 3 roundup.

Posted by James - 31/10/08 at 03:10:21 pm

Ok, so it’s a bit belated.  I was trying to do the whole geeky blogging thing after each day of Flash on the Beach, but guess what got in the way?  Work.  Work and parties.  Ok, maybe parties and then work, but I’m blaming both equally.

Unfortunately I also forgot to take my notes off the company laptop before I handed it back in, and James C forgot to give me back my scribbled pad of paper after the final session, so we’re doing this summary from memory!  I’m so disorganised…

There were lots of interesting sessions over those last two days, on Tueday we had ‘The business side of AIR: how to sell your clients on AIR apps’ by Mike Downey, ‘Things Every ActionScript Developer should know’ by Grant Skinner. Lee Brimelows ‘Platform Jiu-Jitsu’ was fun - a combined introduction to UFC and Flash CS4. The final inspire session in the evening was, well, inspiring - with Robert Hodgin’s ‘The Best 8 to 12 Hours of my Life.’ in which he talks about drugs having a lot to do with his inspiration. Which seemed to be a common theme amongst the arty types.

Here’s a couple of resources I’ve found from that day…

Things every Flash developer should know

The Best 8 to 12 Hours of my Life.

FOTB 2008 - Brighton - Robert Hodgin - 01 from Jon MacDonald on Vimeo.

Continue reading (A very belated) Flash on the Beach 2008 days 2 & 3 roundup….

Grab some Flex skins.

Posted by James - 22/10/08 at 08:10:05 pm

Scalenine has always been a cool place to see some awesome Flex artwork - for ages now they’ve had lovely skins like Obsidian or WMP11, but they’ve recently ran a ’skin to win’ competition and have released the winning entries on their site: http://www.scalenine.com/gallery/.

The winning entries, and the article about them, can be found at http://scalenine.com/blog/2008/10/16/and-the-winners-are/… Continue reading Grab some Flex skins….

Moving Offices!

Posted by James - 17/10/08 at 04:10:29 pm

An event more entertaining than BBC’s “Strictly come dancing”, more thrilling than debugging year-old code, MMT Digital is moving to brand spanking new offices.

An official Press Release will be making its way online next week, with more pictures, but for now (and until I update again) check out what the site looked like only 4 months ago…

Continue reading Moving Offices!…

FOWA ‘08 (Future of Web Apps conference) - Videos

Posted by James - 16/10/08 at 09:10:11 am

http://events.carsonified.com/fowa/2008/london/content

I didn’t go to this one, so it’s really thanks to Andrew Shorten that I found the link, but it looks like FOWA have put videos of the vast majority of all of their sessions online for viewing.  Pretty sweet, huh?  I wish more things would do that - it’s a pain having to hunt them down afterwards!

6 criteria for evaluating business blog post ideas

Posted by James - 15/10/08 at 08:10:32 pm

http://blog.rebeccamurphey.com/2008/09/23/criteria-evaluating-business-blog-post-ideas/

Flash Player 10 is Live

Posted by James - 15/10/08 at 01:10:15 pm

Yes, Flash Player 10 is now live.

I was a little surprised because I hadn’t thought that Flash 10 was going to go live anytime soon - in fact I’m still not sure if CS4 is available yet.  Adobe seems to spend so much time hyping various things that I can’t tell the difference anymore between the ‘things that are coming’ and ‘things that are available’.

But Flash Player 10 is available now.  Flash Player 10 support for other Adobe products like AIR or Flex are still on the hazy horizon, but I assume that they’re coming soon.  I wish they’d stick to the same release dates for things, or be a little more definate…

Update: I’ve actually had a look into this a bit more thoroughly, and it seems like Adobe are actually keeping to the same release dates - releasing CS4 and Flash Player 10 on the same day.  I guess I was just expecting a fanfare or something…

It’s that damned Flex SDK that confuses me - Flex has betas that can publish FP10 stuff way before FP10 goes live, but the Flash IDE doesn’t do betas like that.  So if you ignore Flex, then Adobe are sticking to their guns with how they do things…

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