April 15, 2007 · In boat
Sign number 17 that I’m getting old? Spring means I get excited about fairing and sanding.
While spring in Montreal started off with some promise the past couple of weeks have been cool and damp. Nevertheless, I’m anxious to get back to work on the VG23 in the hayloft and preparations have begun (tonight’s forecast of snow regardless). This afternoon I thought I’d take a crack at revamping the Flash Player photo gallery I’ve been using to share photos of the construction.
For awhile there I was “documenting” the project with an old 35mm film camera so during this winter’s Christmas holidays I spent a long night with some Red Label and a scanner. The result being a bunch of dark, pixelated digital images and a hangover. See if you can spot the point where I entered the world of digital photography.
April 11, 2007 · In adobe, flash player
Earlier today Ryan Stewart wrote about taking a somewhat softened stance in the debate around open sourcing the Adobe Flash Player. Given some of his previous comments on the issue it was nice to see Ryan taking a second look. Especially so given the fact that Ryan makes no bones about being firmly in the Adobe Flex camp when it comes to RIA platforms. He took a bit of grief from some for that post but honestly, having someone in Ryan’s position riff on the subject can only be healthy in the long run. It’s easy for the somewhat insular Flash community to dismiss a “zealot” but when someone like Ryan asks “why not?” it forces defenders of the status quo to actually articulate their position.
I’ve always been surprised at how the Flash Player tends to be seen as a a sacred cow by Flash developers while a number of open source tools used to target the platform have gained a well deserved legitimacy. The argument could be made that OSFlash was a big driver in transitioning Flash from an “animation tool” to the application platform it is today. In the period following ActionScript 2 and prior to Flex it really was the open source community that picked up where the Flash IDE left off. Before Flex Builder, Flash RIA development was all about FAME.
Based on that history alone the Flash development community should have a better-than-most sense of the potential for open source in the Flash platform.
April 9, 2007 · In remember mismatched domains
That makes two user contributed updates to RMD in a row.
Last week Michael Blakeley worked some compiler magic and sent along a version of RMD’s XPCOM component that works on 64 bit Linux machines. Many thanks Michael!
Another platform supported. I’m still hunting for someone to help out our Mac using friends…
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