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October 17, 2005
Live from Max
So I’m chillen at the community lounge just hanging playing with Flex 2 and Flash Player 8.5. As cool as some of the sessions are, I am way more excited about playing with the public alpahas that macromedia released today then I am anything else.
Sitting here hacking away at max is pretty scwheet! I’ve bumped into some of my old friends from blitz (Ivan and John), just talked to Mike Chambers & Chafic Kazoun, hung out with some yahoo and macromedia peps and even sat next to Kevin Lynch (didn’t want to geek out on him so I didn’t say anything).
If anyone wants to hang I’m one of the only guys (minus Chafic) walking around this conference with a red Flash MX 2004 Timbuk2 bag.
BTW: comments still dead.
-erik
Posted by erikbianchi at 11:22 PM | Comments (0)
October 11, 2005
[OT] Spammers killed comments dead!
Spammers didn’t just kill my comments, they killed them dead! With receiving over 20,000 spam comments a day and over 2,000,000 comments over the past 2 weeks, spam brought my data base to its knees, toppled my server and severely bottlenecked my bandwidth. Due to the amount of spam I’ve received my web host blocked permissions to my cgi-bin (without telling me) breaking comments. I thought I had fixed this issues earlier in the week but after I’d change the permission settings someone else would change them back an hour later.
I want to avoid requiring user logins or having to monitor post because I think this hinders commenters and active discussions. So, until I am able to figure out a solution, my comments are killed dead. Thanks Spammers!
-erik
Posted by erikbianchi at 11:36 PM | Comments (0)
[RIAs] Shifting From Flash RIAs to AJAX, Flash and Flex RIAs
Despite my many [OT] post my (other) main focus of this blog has been related to Flash Rich Internet Applications development. While Flash RIAs will remain a big part of this site I feel that it is also import to consider AJAX as an RIA deployment platform as well.
While I personally disagree with the name “AJAX” (considering most of the notable AJAX applications don’t actually use XML) “language pragmatists will say that the right words are the ones people actually use and this word is catching on” (to quote Tim O’Rielly of O'Rielly Media). Granted, Mr. O’Rielly was referring to the Web 2.0 meme, however, his point still applies; but I digress.
With the recent popularity of AJAX many companies are viewing AJAX as a viable web application solution. Rather, then viewing this as a competing technology I see it as yet another platform Flash can be deployed to. However, as an RIA developer my goal shouldn't be to deploy the best Flash or AJAX RIA user experience possible; it should be to deploy the best RIA user experience period. Having a biased preference to just 1 technology (guilty) isn’t fair to your end users and puts you into a proverbial box. Being able to leverage the strengths and understanding the weaknesses of both technologies will in the end make your applications better and make you a better developer.
/soapbox
With that (and finally to the point of my post) I’m slightly shifting my blogs focus from Flash related news rants and ideas to AJAX, Flash and Flex RIA Development (news and rants still apply).
-erik
Posted by erikbianchi at 08:02 AM | Comments (0)
October 10, 2005
[Flash] @ MAX / OC Visitor Info
I’ll be attending this year’s Macromedia MAX conference which is being held near my hometown in Anaheim California! Anaheim is home to both Disneyland and the Anaheim Angels (who are going to put the beat down on the Yanks tonight!).
If you’re attending the conference and this is your first time out to the OC I highly recommended making trips out to:
The Block at Orange
http://www.theblockatorange.com
The Irvine Spectrum
http://www.shopirvinespectrumcenter.com/
Main Street / The Pier: Huntington Beach
http://www.hbonline.com/
Taco Loco, Laguna Beach
http://www.shopirvinespectrumcenter.com/
And don't miss In & Out (be sure to get a cheese burger animal style)!
P.S. Comments are back up again.
-erik
Posted by erikbianchi at 09:03 PM | Comments (0)
October 06, 2005
[Tools] Know a Good JavaScript Editor?
If you know a good Javascript Editor, I could really use one as I am neck deep in a project! Also, is there anything in particular I should look out for (good or bad) or some feature I shouldn’t live without? I don't really care what it is or how much it cost, anything to make my life easier!!!
Much Appreciated!
-erik
Posted by erikbianchi at 04:22 AM | Comments (0)