Weekly Roundup: May 4th – May 10th

Posted by on May 10, 2008 in Roundup, Weekly blend | Comments Off

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]

Just in case you haven’t heard: MXNA is back!

Posted by on May 6, 2008 in News | Comments Off

Today is a good day… Our beloved MXNA/AXNA has resurrected and is now online at http://feeds.adobe.com

MXNA was originally built for maybe a few dozen feeds and certainly not for the almost 2000 feeds it’s aggregating now. But now it’s running on faster servers and Coldfusion has been upgraded to 8.0.1. Ben Forta is saying that “there are still more optimizations to come” so if you do find some quirks, know that it’s still being worked on. Christian Cantrell has more information.

http://feeds.adobe.com/

Weekly roundup

Posted by on May 3, 2008 in Roundup, Weekly blend | 1 comment

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]