Archive for the ‘Rants’ Category

“I’m not a kid anymore, Dad!” said ActionScript 3.

Thursday, July 17th, 2008

Boy has there been a lot of buzz around Colin Moock's article lately. Its quite interesting to read the very outspoken comments as well. Everyone seems to have a strong opinion about it and now its time for me to chime in.

To Google & Yahoo!: Please Distribute Map APIs for Developers Who Dont Use the Flex SDK!

Thursday, May 15th, 2008

Dear Google & Yahoo!, In recent months both of you have released wonderful ActionScript libraries that allow us developers to access your mapping services. To have the same power (questionably more) as JavaScript developers is totally freakin' radical. What more can us developers ask for when giant companies give us code ...

R&D Departments & AD Agencies.

Saturday, May 3rd, 2008

There was a pretty interesting entry up on CREATIVITY (online) last week. It was about how Arnold, Boston started it's very own Research & Development department, staffed with a couple of young technologist/designers. [read here] My opinion on this matter is a bit mixed. Part of me is looking at this ...