Adobe on AIR

Adobe’s coming to Minneapolis for a short 1-day conference all about AIR, the new desktop runtime for Flex apps (previously codenamed Apollo). It’s happening the evening of Thursday, September 27. Free information, beer, caffeine and snacks.
More info is online: http://onair.adobe.com/schedule/cities/minneapolis.php Click on the registration link next to the photo of the venue. (You know you […]

Apollo Beta to be Released This Month

Looks like Adobe is getting ready to release the official beta of Apollo this month. Dave and I got a great preview of some Apollo features at Max last year. It will be good to see desktop derivatives of the more popular online services popping up soon. (sooner than later, I hope!) And - don’t […]

REST explained

“Why don’t you say something? Maybe I will.”
If you have never fully understood the HTTP protocol, or for that matter, what “REST” is and why you want to, um, have to, use it every day, you must read this post:
http://tomayko.com/articles/2004/12/12/rest-to-my-wife
Ryan does an excellent job outlining the basics of HTTP and how it relates conceptually to […]

Thanksgiving

It’s that time of the year again, so let’s be proper and talk about what we’re thankful for.
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Margaritaville Photo Update

So Dave posted some pictures on his Flickr account, since I was there too, I thought I could abuse his site by linking to it!
See some margaritas
Hear some margaritas
Drink some margaritas
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Word of the day - gription

As the term friction refers to the coeffecient of pressure against a surface, gription refers to the coeffecient of your hand’s pressure on an object (such as your beer bottle).
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Note to self: check out RIA Forge

http://www.riaforge.org/
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Technorati Blog #55,000,001

Just linked this blog up from my old-school website, google, and of course Technorati.
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First leg of our Max trip gets off to an early start

What were you doing at 5:30 this morning? This plane was sleeping too, so don’t feel special just yet. When Dave and I checked in, the seats were pretty much randomly assigned. Lucky for us, NWA must be testing some new money-making scheme. In order to move seats, Dave had to pay an additional $15. […]

Is everything OK with your drink?

It’s great, except for the extra ice. Don Pablo’s cooked a decent dinner for me and the wife tonight… I finished a margarita just for you.

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