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Weekly Roundup: May 4th – May 10th

by Serge Jespers on 10. May, 2008 in Roundup, Weekly blend

As last week, this is just a collection of blog posts and sites that caught my attention this week.

  • Send your name to the moon: NASA is sending an unmanned mission to the moon and you can be part of it… well… Your name can be part of it but that’s still cool [link]
  • Spam 30 years old: The first spam message was sent on Arpanet on May 3rd, 1978 [link]
  • Giant solar powered LED screen in Bejing [link]
  • A celebration of Pixel Art: Smashing Magazine has a great collection of Pixel Art which includes the AIR launch poster by Eboy [link]
  • MXNA is back [link]
  • Hydra is now Pixel Bender [link]
  • Interactive demos of ILOG Elixir charting components for Flex: If you’re looking for sophisticated data visualization for Flex, don’t look any further [link]
  • FedEx Desktop released: Now you can follow your FedEx shipments with an AIR app [link]
  • Living in The Netherlands? Take the bus to Multi-Mania. The Dutch Adobe UserGroup is organizing a bustrip to Multi-Mania. [link]
  • The User Interface Resource Center: The User Interface Resource Center (UIRC) provides free articles and White Papers written by industry leaders about user interface design and rich Internet applications (RIAs) [link]
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Weekly roundup

by Serge Jespers on 03. May, 2008 in Roundup, Weekly blend

I thought it would be a great idea to start with a weekly roundup post with links to blog posts or sites that caught my attention over the last week. So here’s the first one. I’m playing a little bit of catch-up this week so some links may actually be a little bit older than one week.

  • Flex Builder Enhancements: InsideRIA has a great article on a couple of really cool and useful add-ons for Flex Builder [link]
  • Update on MXNA: Mike Chambers explains what’s going on with MXNA and what he and Christian Cantrell are doing to revive it [link]
  • AIR badge WordPress plugin: Peter Elst wrote a plugin for WordPress to easily deploy your AIR projects on your WordPress blog. [link]
  • Multi-Mania registrations now open: Multi-Mania is a yearly free multimedia event in Belgium. Actually, it’s the only event of it’s kind in Belgium. The speaker list keeps getting better every year. [link]
  • Enrique Duvos’ new blog: Platform evangelist buddy (and my manager) Enrique moved his blog to a new URL [link]
  • Greg Wilson switched to Mac: After 20 years on Windows, Greg (also on the Platform evangelism team) switched to Mac. Welcome Greg! [link]
  • Flex Coders Yahoo Group now has 9547 subscribers [link]
  • Thermo, the board game: Rob Adams (design researcher on the Thermo team) talks about how he had to use paper prototypes for testing their design concepts [link]
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Upcoming events I will be attending/speaking at

by Serge Jespers on 07. Apr, 2008 in Events

I wanted to quickly write this post to let you know about some events that are on my calendar and that I will be speaking at. If you are coming to any of these events, please don’t hesitate to come and say “hi”. Also, if you are working on a cool RIA running in the browser or on the desktop, I really want to know about it. So hope to see you at one of these events:

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