http://www.tommyb.com Rich Internet Application and Content Development Mon, 17 Nov 2008 19:12:26 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en "MAX - Connect. Discover. Inspire" is the theme of this year's gathering. The Adobe CEO is now on-stage introducing the conference. He just said this is the largest MAX to date, over 5,000 attendees. http://www.tommyb.com/2008/11/17/adobe-max-2008-opening-session/ I'm sitting on the floor of the Moscone Convention center in San Francisco, patiently awaiting the 9:30 PT Opening General Session. Adobe is scheduled to provide previews of Thermo (now officially named Catalyst), Flex 4 (which includes entirely reworked visual components that are way more skinnable) and lots of ... http://www.tommyb.com/2008/11/17/live-from-max-2008/ I expected the Container.whiteBox issue (discussed here and here) to be resolved with the release of Flex 3, but readers have pointed out that the issue still exists. With this in mind, I decided to offer another solution to the problem. The technique used in this solution is ... http://www.tommyb.com/2008/05/24/revisiting-the-flex-whitebox-issue-in-flex-3/ I have decided to take on an exciting new challenge in 2008. I've joined the ranks of Universal Mind, the preeminent Adobe technologies consultancy in the RIA development arena. UM has some very exciting things going for them, including being added to Inc. Magazine's 500 Fastest Growing Privately Held Companies ... http://www.tommyb.com/2008/01/16/one-mind-now-universal/ I've been backing up and cleaning out old projects and ran across this video that I created for an end-of-season banquet for my kids gymnastics program. Their gym recently opened in a new location with their previous coaching staff being the new owners, hence the idea of continuing a ... http://www.tommyb.com/2007/10/28/after-effects-looping-banquet-video/ I recently ran into a problem with Adobe Flex inline functions that I want to share with you. I spent a good part of a day trying to find the problem in my code only to discover an unexpected ECMAScript-spec'd behavior was to blame. Take heed of this ... http://www.tommyb.com/2007/10/21/proceed-with-caution-adobe-flex-inline-functions-in-loops/ I attended a two hour demonstration of the new web-oriented features offered by Adobe's CS3 products, including Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Flash and Fireworks, this past Wednesday at Vulcan Park. We were fortunate to have two great, well-qualified presenters in Greg Rewis, the Worldwide Senior Evangelist for Web Tools for Adobe and Stephanie ... http://www.tommyb.com/2007/04/29/ipsa-adobe-cs3-event-was-awesome/ A few months back, I posted about a hardcoded whiteBox display object in the mx:Container object. I ran into a problem with my workaround after posting about it, but I forgot to post an update on how to deal with it. http://www.tommyb.com/2007/04/29/revisiting-the-flex-whitebox-issue/ Close   "The Making of a Legacy..." I've revisited the time-lapse video I did for the gymnastics facility that 2 of my kids attend. We've completed the setup and the gym is now open for team members, so I needed to add the remaining setup efforts to the original video. This time, ... http://www.tommyb.com/2007/04/10/time-lapse-video-fun-reloaded/ My two younger children have been involved in competitive gymnastics for the past five or so years. We've recently been involved (as parent volunteers) in getting a new gym off the ground, and I thought it would be fun to give time-lapse video a try while installing the various ... http://www.tommyb.com/2007/03/25/time-lapse-video-fun/