http://www.wabysabi.com/blog The Personal and Professional website of Daniel Wabyick Mon, 08 Sep 2008 22:39:37 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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/ NOTE: Updated URL's to adobe.com Just thought I would announce the re-release of the Employee Directory AIR application on Labs. I am excited to show off what I think is a very useful corporate directory application that provides a better experience for finding fellow employees and conference rooms. Technically, the application ... http://www.wabysabi.com/blog/2007/10/01/employee-directory-v2-released-on-adobe-labs/ Just a quick note that I accepted a position with Adobe! I will be working for Jeremy Clark in the Experience Design (XD) group as a 'Experience Technologist.' What's the job? Basically, its a Flash geek's dream - work with and improve the latest RIA technologies here at Adobe. ... http://www.wabysabi.com/blog/2007/08/27/its-official-i-work-at-adobe/ Fluid was featured as an Adobe Creative Success Story Video for the RBKCustom shoe configurator site they built for Reebok. Having worked briefly on this project, I can tell you that it was a very technical project with a huge object model. Support for all of the shoe configurations, combined ... http://www.wabysabi.com/blog/2007/07/12/fluid-and-rbkcustomcom-adobe-creative-success-story/