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Code samples and tutorials on the Adobe Flash Platform. Covering Actionscript 3, Flex and AIR.

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  • AIRos on Nov 22, 2009 in Flex Adobe AIR

    Why isn’t there an Adobe AIR operating system by now? Seems like all you would need is to customize one of the Linux distros to automatically run an AIR app on startup that would act as the interface to the OS. What you would end up with is a l...

  • What’s under Antarctica? on Oct 15, 2009 in Flex global warming

    I always figured there was a land mass under all of Antarctica that, give or take, was well above sea level. Turns out that isn’t the case at all. Take the ice cap off Antarctica and you end up with a land mass about half the size of what you w...

  • The end of mobile network carriers and ISPs on Oct 13, 2009 in Flex Flash P2P mobile phones

    Adobe’s recent news about the Flash Player 10.1 ( FP101 ) being optimized for mobile phones got me to thinking about the mobile space. It seems to me that the thing that sucks the most about mobile devices are the networks. Their service plans...

  • Don’t forget to take your Vitamin-G on Oct 7, 2009 in Flex

    [ The following is a public service announcement ] If you’re like me you spend more time in front of computer monitors than you would like to admit. And if I’m not in front of computer monitors I’m watching a movie or TV show, or pl...

  • User poll : Did you get a CS degree or something in the Liberal Arts? on Oct 4, 2009 in Flex Charting components polls

    During my first two years of college I majored in astronomy, and physics. But most of my classes were in mathematics and I determined that I liked them a much more than anything else. Then I dropped out of college for a while to work at the US Space...

  • Listen to me talk about RunPee.com on the net@night show with Amber and Leo on May 22, 2009 in Flex

    I was invited to talk about RunPee.com on the net@night show with Amber MacArthur, and Leo Laporte. I’m come on at about the 25 minute mark and talk for about 10 minutes. Of course I pimp Flex bigtime during the interview. I’m not sure if...

  • The polyGeek-Set on May 20, 2009 in Flex

    view source It’s a geek thing.