March 22, 2006 · In microsoft
Dax Pandhi has a nice screencast video on creating a simple animated button in Microsoft’s Expression Interactive Designer. From the commentary it’s obvious that Dax comes from a Microsoft world but I found his insight comparing some of the features to the Flash IDE helpful. Good stuff.
Good timing too, with Microsoft’s Mix06 happening this week and the various impressions of Sparkle, err, Microsoft Expression Interactive Designer, coming from some Macromedia community luminaries who are in attendance.
March 20, 2006 · In remember mismatched domains
The Remember Mismatched Domains extension is now available from addons.mozilla.org. It went live yesterday and is already getting some good feedback. Thanks.
Version 1.1.2 is the latest. You may as well go and grab it from over there:
https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=2131
March 2, 2006 · In adobe, flash, macromedia, microsoft
The Article I Think I Read
I burned a good hour of time that I didn’t really have today looking for an article that I’m pretty sure I read a few years ago. The way I recall things it was sometime in maybe 2002, the article was published on macromedia.com and it described a fictional “day in the life” in which the principal “character” was helped in their day to day routines by various “intelligent”, occasionally connected devices and software. Things like reading and writing email, buying concert tickets, tracking current events and making social plans all being done while she made her way to the coffee shop, rode a train to the office etc. A vision that’s pretty common today but back when I read this article it all seemed quite revolutionary to me and ever since I’ve been watching for it to become reality.
Did Kevin Read the Article?
In October I was lucky enough to be sitting in the audience during Kevin Lynch’s keynote at Macromedia’s Max when he first talked about “Apollo”. Something tells me Kevin read the article too. Here, go check out the video from that keynote and you’ll see how familiar it sounds. Choose ‘Day One’ > ‘Platform Future’ (3rd thumbnail from the right), then jump ahead to around 1:08:00 (yup, the ability to direct link that would be easier for me too).
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