Transmit and Amazon S3

Just discovered that Transmit 3.7 has S3 support. You can manage it using the Advanced Preferences tab which you access by holding down the Option key while clicking on the Transmit application menu. From there you will see an extra preference tab where you canREAD MORE

What’s In A Name?

I recently overheard a conversation about IDE naming and its impact on an individual or company’s bottom line. There were numerous supporters of the notion that the name of the tool an individual or company chooses has direct correlation to the number and types ofREAD MORE

TextMate and Regular Expressions

A lot of Mac users have become familiar with a powerful text editor in the form of TextMate. It combines some of the power that is Unix with some of the cleaness that is OSX to give you an editor that could replace some IDEs.READ MORE

Flash on the iPhone Hits Another Snag!!

Adobe CEO, Shantanu Narayen, confirms to Bloomberg TV at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland recently that a Flash player for the iPhone won’t be coming anytime soon. We all know Steve Jobs doesn’t think highly of the player when it comes to its viabilityREAD MORE

AS3 :: BackgroundFill

Finally updated the source for my AS2 :: BackgroundFill class to work for AS3. Just define your gradient, instantiate the class and you’re good to go. Check out and download the source @ http://labs.otuome.com/as3/background-fill.

New Screencasts Available

Posted (2) new walkthroughs this morning on my labs site. The 1st demonstrates basic usage of the KwikUML AIR app (model creation/editing, stub code generation, etc).

The 2nd one is an overview of, the soon-to-be-released, KwikDoc AIR app. This app demonstrates a really cool way to integrateREAD MORE

Introducing Blogo

Being a member of the Adobe user group management community has its perks. It’s a really diverse group of extremely intelligent and gifted individuals that don’t mind sharing their time, talent and wisdom and this helps keep the user group community thriving.

Via this community, IREAD MORE

Clearing the air about Alchemy

For those that don’t know, Alchemy is a research project being conducted by Adobe and Automata Studios that allows developers to compile C/C++ into ActionScript that’s capable of running in the ActionScript Virtual Machine (AVM2).

It was debuted recently at MAX in San Francisco and immediately had many aREAD MORE

KwikUML Open Sourced!

KwikUML is now open-sourced and hosted courtesy of RIAForge. Full source code and API documentation have been posted just in time for Xmas!! Feel free to pitch in if you’re interested in helping to further this project…:D

Adobe Certified Expert – Adobe Flex 3 and AIR

It’s been an extremely long hiatus over the past few months being totally immersed in work yet again. A lot has happened during that time from insane project burns to promotions to community involvement, etc. so, I forced myself today to sit through some certificationREAD MORE