Oh my goodness gracious sakes alive!* I have been interviewed about KitchenSync for InsideRIA blog by RJ Owen of EffectiveUI. RJ is a very swell guy. Mercy me!*
*My dear grandmother is prone to use expressions like this.
Happy birthday to me. Adobe CS4 is scheduled to launch on my birthday, next Tuesday. To catch the unveiling, register here.
Has this ever happened to you?
You’re having an awesome birthday bash and you send out an email to all your closest friends… that is, all your closest friends except ‘Ed’. Now you’re faced with the embarrassing situation of having to invite your friend Ed post-invitum. But don’t fret, here’s a simple solution that will save you loads of embarrassment!
Go from 
to 
Did you send a copy to yourself? Good! If not, check your sent folder. Not there? Ask your mom to forward the invite back to you.
Click on the forward button. This time send it to yourself! In the BCC field put the name of the person (or people) you forgot. BCC stands for “blind carbon copy” and the names on this list won’t be listed so they’ll ony see your name listed.
That’s a dead giveaway that you’re a loser and a fuck-up who doesn’t care about his friends.
You know the blue line that runs down the left side of the text that you’re forwarding? That’s the quote formatting. It may also appear as a “>” or some other symbol. Taking that stuff out is the last step in making your email look fresh.
If you’re using Mac Mail, just highlight the quoted text and press Command + Option + ‘ (apostrophe) until the blue line disappears.
Also make sure you remove the text that says “Begin forwarded message:”! Duh!
If done properly, your email will look exactly like a brand new email and your friend will never know that you don’t really like them that much!
Colour Lovers API lets you pull color palette information with very Flash-friendly urls and XML results! I dare you to make something with this.
Also, I found this little blog post very interesting.
Leading up to the debut of KitchenSync 2.0 at the <head> conference this October, I’ve decided to solicit the community for some help with creating AWESOME DEMOS that show off the sequencing library. I’ve also decided to do this in the form of an AWESOME CONTEST! This could be a great opportunity for you as a developer to (a) Try out KitchenSync for the first time (b) Get noticed by other developers around the globe and (c) win FABULOUS PRIZES! Details after the jump!
After six years in Brooklyn, New York, Mims H. Wright, awesome Flash developer, is moving to Los Angeles, California where he will continue doing what he did before only this time with more sunshine. Moving day is 9/26… if you’re free that day, maybe you can help pack the truck. He will dearly miss New York, it’s inhabitants, and not-driving.
If you’re a resident of sunny L.A., drop me a line! Let’s be pals.
While checking out Grant Skinner’s new tweening engine, gTween, I was bothered by one small phrase…
gTween is a small (4.5kb), fast (1500 instances, 0.5s duration, ~25fps), instance based tweening class, with a huge number of options and capabilities.
The definition of ‘fast’ in terms of Flash Player performance is somewhat of a mystery. We’re looking for high frame rate i guess? Lots of things on stage? Total time of operations? But frame rate and number of instances don’t really tell the whole story. There are a number of factors that make the Flash Player performance a very difficult thing to measure.
That’s nothing new. All apps deal with this. However, Flash Player has these added complications.
The results of our latest benchmark
The launch of Google’s new browser, “Chrome” has a lot of people talking. Rather than bog us down with boring technical details, Google have hired acclaimed comic book artist and author of “Understanding Comics“, Scott McCloud to explain the new features and how they were conceived. It makes for some interesting and very digestible reading.
I’m honored to announce that I will be presenting at the <head> web conference (formerly called Singularity) this October 24-26th! I’ll be talking about the basics of KitchenSync and what makes it so special. I’m very excited, not only to be a speaker (it will be my first time to speak at a conference), but also to be an attendee. This is the first(?) ever web conference to be presented exclusively online… so I expect you to be there!
