http://www.wabysabi.com/blog The Personal and Professional website of Daniel Wabyick Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:10:38 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Recently, a coworker asked me - 'What's Robotlegs all About?'. I waved my hands around a bit, rambled about dependency injection, Spring, Swiz, until his eyes glazed over. Talking about frameworks only goes so far. Enter Richard Lord's fantastic AS3 framework comparison using Flexcaster, an example podcast application. ... http://www.wabysabi.com/blog/2009/11/19/as3-framework-comparisons-robotlegs/ Recently, I got a chance to check out Scott Evan's slides for his MAX 2009 talk on Flashbuilder tips and tricks. There's a ton of new features, including: Advanced navigation Indentation Correction MXML and Actionscript file ... http://www.wabysabi.com/blog/2009/11/04/flashbuilder-features-and-tips-by-scott-evans/ Hello, I am pleased to announce that I will be speaking at MAX on the IHT Reader project, a next-generation desktop newsreader application that was featured in the MAX keynote on Monday. Speaking along with Jeremy Clark and Justin Van Slembrouck, we'll be covering the project from both a design ... http://www.wabysabi.com/blog/2008/11/19/speaking-at-max-iht-reader/ I'm excited to share with you the launch of Supercast, a premium service for DirecTV subscribers that allows viewers to watch all NFL games in high-quality h264 video encoding, while getting the latest scores, plays, and highlights. While Flash video in the browser is great, the AIR application leverages a ... http://www.wabysabi.com/blog/2008/09/08/directv-launches-nfl-streaming-video-application-built-with-adobe-air/ Ok, this is not the most tasteful AIR app, but it is technically one of the best. By leveraging Flash transparent video and AIR transparent windows, they've managed to create an app that cleverly interacts with your desktop experience. Its also pretty fun to play around with! Hats off ... http://www.wabysabi.com/blog/2008/07/16/desktop-keeley-killer-air-app/ In recent months I've been collecting a number of design-related sites, and I think its time to start sharing them with the masses (or, the few who stumble upon this site). First off the list is grain edit, one of my daily reads for discovering beautiful mid-century and mid-century-inspired print work. ... http://www.wabysabi.com/blog/2008/05/01/grain-edit-fantastic-design-site/ AIR provides some great API's for integrating with other applications. Via the NativeDragManager and Clipboard classes, you can easily export your data in a multitude of formats, including PNG and CSV. Recently I had an project that utilized these features, and I figured it would be good to share the ... http://www.wabysabi.com/blog/2008/03/18/air-example-native-drag-n-drop-and-clipboard-integration/ James Ward created an excellent RIA Data Loading Benchmarking tool that compares the load, parse and rendering time of a number of RIA technologies including both AJAX and Flash based technologies. Its nice to see a well-designed tool spell out the performance differences of technologies. This should make it easier ... http://www.wabysabi.com/blog/2008/02/14/ria-data-benchmarking-tool-nice/ In my last post, I wanted to distribute a sample AIR application via the user-friendly badge installation process. After taking a look at the available options, I came across an excellent Flash embedding solution for Wordpress called Kimili. Kimili is a Wordpress friendly wrapper on top of Geoff Stearns excellent ... http://www.wabysabi.com/blog/2008/01/30/embedding-air-badges-on-wordpress-via-kimili-plugin/ #messageTable { height: 140px; border: 1px solid #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; } ** Updated for AIR 1.0 02/25/2008 ** The AIR windowing API offers some exciting new possibilities, and challenges, for Flash developers. With the Employee Directory Sample Application, we showcased a well-designed, real-world application that dynamically resizes itself to a changing ... http://www.wabysabi.com/blog/2008/01/29/example-air-app-dynamically-resizing-windows-based-on-content-area/