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November 29, 2006

Took me back a bit...

…when I did a search for validating email addresses in AS 2. This is one of those things you do and never revisit until it is needed.

Well, the search results showed several results. I looked at the first one and thought “blah” so I asked a friend if he had a script. While waiting for him to review his stash, I looked down. One of the links had “Beginning OOP in AS 2.0” as the title. This sounded familiar to me. So, I clicked.

Check it out. :-) My how time passes.

If you didn’t click, it is an article I wrote a couple years back. It is funny looking at the Validator class though. I remember the email validation code was from somewhere else and I just made a class out of it. Well, the function isn’t static so you have to instantiate it. Now-a-days, I’d never do that. Simply make it static and be done. :-)

I won’t bash my old code anymore than that. I just found it quite funny that it showed up in a search.

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November 26, 2006

Identikit on Numbers

One of our clients was spoken of on the hit show (at least in my house) Numbers tonight. Identikit.net has been one of our clients for a few months now (working on some updates for them) and watching Numbers tonight (TiVo recording) had me overly excited. :-)

They are looking for a killer/ring leader and they did a sketch of the person based on someone’s description. For the rest of the show they have shown a sketch produced by the Identikit system AND even mentioned it. :-) Now, we didn’t create the original application but we’re hoping to 100% handle the next version. I say this to say…it is merely cool that one of our clients (and current projects) is in use widely enough to make it on TV, especially a show I love. :-) Rock on!

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November 16, 2006

This is so much kuler!

Adobe has showcased Flash 9 in a great way. Here is what the site says Kuler is.

“kuler is brand new from Adobe Labs. kuler helps you explore, create and share color themes for your web pages, design projects and other creative work.

You can use kuler as an on-line application or you can download themes to use with Adobe Creative Suite 2 applications.”

That’s what Adobe says on the site. What do I say? “kuler is a frickin’ tight color picking app!” :-) Nice work Adobe.

Check it out kuler.

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November 7, 2006

.NET 3.0 is here!

You can get the links here.

This is an exciting release. Look for some sweet stuff coming out soon (not just from us but from all).

BTW, nice site MSFT.

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Desert Code Camp: Beginning Flex 2.0 Review

OK…first off I made the biggest bone head mistake of all. Let me start out by describing the beginning of my presentation.

The presenter before me ran late. Taking into consideration that I had to do all of my setup (plugging into system, opening files/applications, etc) and I only had an hour to present on a very robust technology…I was in a bit of a rush. Once I got setup I remembered I needed to jump into Breeze, so I did. I FORGOT TO TURN ON MY MIC!!!!

I knew something felt odd but I kept rolling with it. The preso went really well but I didn’t get it recorded. :-( As I stated at the end, I’m going to do a series of Flex preso’s so look forward to those later.

Last DCC, they collected our files, etc. If they don’t this time, I’ll post my source, etc here.

Thanks.

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Adobe hands over the AVM to Mozilla

This was an interesting move. I couldn’t wait to blog about it just to see the reaction and thoughts.

“The goal of the “Tamarin” project is to implement a high-performance, open source implementation of the ECMAScript 4th edition (ES4) language specification. The Tamarin virtual machine will be used by Mozilla within SpiderMonkey, the core JavaScript engine embedded in Firefox®, and other products based on Mozilla technology. The code will continue to be used by Adobe as part of the ActionScript™ Virtual Machine within Adobe® Flash® Player.”

Read more about the Tamarin Project to get the full scope.

Update:
Read more about the donation from Adobe.com.

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