http://www.davidflatley.com A RIA developer's late night ramblings and other nonsense Mon, 15 Sep 2008 22:44:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This deserves its own post. My buddy Mezzy and I shot a quick video under 60 sec to enter him in the Dean Shredder Search. I've posted his latest demo with No Wasted Motion on his site www.mezzyshredder.com and I'll get some more video of him shredding like no man ... http://www.davidflatley.com/2008/09/15/check-out-mezzy-shredding/ Just read on the Washington Post that Adobe is working with Google and Yahoo to make SWFs readable/visible to search engines. Completely awesome news! That's been a major draw back for other Flash/Flex developers for years, that the search engines can't read content inside a swf . The article states ... http://www.davidflatley.com/2008/07/01/swf-file-format-becomes-seo-friendly/ They're basically done! http://code.google.com/p/photobucketas3lib/ I just got finished working it into MyStylez today for easy drag/drop functionality while building MySpace layouts. The AS3 library itself is extremely well done and easy to use, took me no time at all. Great job Photobucket gang! Going forward, I know which api I'll be ... http://www.davidflatley.com/2008/06/02/not-only-were-there-plans-for-the-photobucket-as3-lib/ I've been working with the AS3 Flickr library trying to make MyStylez cooler with some Flickr + AIR drag and drop goodies and was thinking I'd eventually try to work in the Photobucket API too. I haven't seen any ActionScript library projects yet, but then again I've been sitting in the ... http://www.davidflatley.com/2008/05/01/any-plans-out-there-for-an-as3-photobucket-library/ So Bill is at it again, gobbling up everything in his path. This time he sent Steve Ballmer to beat up Yahoo! and watching the two companies have a pissing contest is too fun! Yahoo thought Microsoft made an indecent proposal so they sent Steve Ballmer a snippy response, and ... http://www.davidflatley.com/2008/04/07/hostile-takeover-for-yahoo/ A very cool idea, turn off your lights for one hour and save tons of electricity for your city, help the environment, and make a statement. For those who haven't heard, Earth Hour started in Sydney Australia in March 2007, 2.2 million people and 2100 Sydney businesses turned off their ... http://www.davidflatley.com/2008/03/30/earth-hour-rocked/ Or the iPhone is just another piece of O'Crapple. O'Crapple, my word for over priced crap from Apple. According to Information Week, Steve Jobs was quoted as saying that the Flash Player for the desktop performs too slow to be useful on the iPhone and that the mobile version of Flash is not ... http://www.davidflatley.com/2008/03/05/flash-player-too-slow-for-iphone/ And costing me time and money I might add. It's a good thing I came across this article online the other day. It seems that ole Bill and his pals at Microsoftunfurled their latest monkey patch for Vista in the form of Service Pack 1. Nothing new here, no big ... http://www.davidflatley.com/2008/02/24/thanks-bill-and-microsoft-for-screwing-up-my-weekend/ In a recent post, I made a comment or two about some quality projects I've found on oDesk.com. Apparently, some have questioned my understanding of oDesk, so I decided to take a deeper look into the site and their services. Hmmm, yup, says here: Welcome to oDesk, the online staffing marketplace connecting ... http://www.davidflatley.com/2008/02/19/what-is-odesk-all-about-exactly/ How cool is that? I was taking a break from running around like a nut all day between Flex and running errands when I saw a box on my front porch. Hmmm, I didn't order anything, but none the less, I was surprised and very honored when I opened up ... http://www.davidflatley.com/2008/02/05/add-me-too-im-now-an-adobe-flex-developer-community-champion/