Wow, Adobe… Flash Player 10 Beta. Already? Wow.
Too good to be true. Seriously. Flash Player 10 Beta is available for download. My favorite feature I intend to play with Pixel Bender filters. Woohoo! Go get it now! I fully intend to abuse this once I wake up from tonight’s sleep.

From Digg: 70 Really Stunning Typographic Designs
It’s been awhile since I have blogged a Digg find, since most of you probably read Digg already, but this collection of links was so deep, so good, it seemed silly to not write about it if you like type. Which I do. You should check this link out to Smashing Magazine. There are over [...]

Update: Why Microsoft Silverlight Will Fail – 1 Year Later
Last April, I wrote a post listing some reasons why I felt Silverlight would not succeed. That post garnered a lot of visits, comments and a few trackbacks. It’s still a highly trafficked post of mine. Furthermore, that post is the number one Google result for “silverlight IDE” and ranks pretty highly for a number [...]

Congratulations to Two of My Former Students and Coworkers On Their New Opportunities.
Mitch Anderson and Brian McMurray were both students of mine at Bradley University, and later, they became coworkers of mine at The Iona Group. Both were obviously talented when they came onboard, with their talents only growing by leaps and bounds while they produced stellar work for us at Iona.
Alas, things were not meant to [...]

SWFShot Now Available in the Adobe AIR Marketplace, Info on Getting a Free Secure Certificates, Too.
I’ve just added my second application to the Adobe AIR Marketplace. You can check it out and download it here. For those that may have missed it, you can learn more about SWFShot in this post. Previously, I added my LOLCat Viewer application to the exchange. You can learn more about that app in my [...]

Bending Some Pixels – Just Playing Around: First Impressions of Pixel Bender and Flash Player 10
So, I downloaded the Flash Player 10 Beta and the Pixel Bender Toolkit and I must say, it’s fun. I have yet to do anything truly productive with it, but as a creative tool or something that shows the amazing possibilities of Flash 10 off, there isn’t a much better demo out there then downloading [...]

10 Books You Must Have in Your Library as a Flash Platform Designer
I know that not everyone likes tech books. My wife and family being some of them. Anyway… I do. I have a huge arsenal of text for the last decade or so that I read, lend to friends and students and then keep around for further reference. In reality there are actually more than [...]

The A-Ha moment. When the Flash Platform Becomes More Than a Toy For Your Client
I recently had the pleasure of spending a full day at a client’s site along with some representatives from Adobe. It was great day for networking, introductions and demonstrations. A number of technologies were shown, from Acrobat 3D to LiveCycle, to InDesign/InCopy and finally Flex with Data Services. This client is already using Flash on [...]

Video TimeSlicer: Generate Multiple Thumbnails from a Video Using Flex and ImageSnapshot
At The Iona Group we have hundreds, probably thousands of videos that we have shot or somehow acquired from client asset libraries, etc. These videos are stored and logged in a pretty big legacy database (Don’t laugh, I think it’s Access). We also have some clients where stored their video assets in a big fat [...]

More Betas in Labs… Soundbooth CS4, Dreamweaver CS4 and Fireworks CS4. Nice!
Man Adobe is just cranking em out. Labs has fresh new betas of some CS4 applications. The new Fireworks CS4 beta looks especially nice for RIA UI design. Cool features, indeed. I will be checking out the Dreamweaver SVN integration this week, for sure. I have little faith in using Dreamweaver for my dev work, [...]