Just a quick reminder that the deadline for Halo 2 application contest is this Friday. Basically, the best application / site built with ColdFusion and / or Flash / Flex that uses data from the halo site wins a bunch of goodies.
There are already a couple of entries, but to make things more interesting, I will send a Flash t-shirt to anyone who submits a decent entry.
More details here.
As you probably know by now by all of the posts in the community, Microsoft has released Halo 2 for the Xbox this week. One of the things that is really cool is how they are linking online stats to the Bungie website, and even providing RSS feeds of data for individual user stats (for example, here is a RSS feed of my Halo 2 online stats).
So, since since it looks like a lot of people in the Flash community are playing Halo 2, I figured this would be the perfect opportunity for a new contest. So, here it is:
Well, Max is over and it was a blast as usual. I didn’t get to blog as much as I wanted, although I did blog the keynote live.
The highlight of the conference for me was the sneaks session, which I organized and MC’ed. I was blown away by some of the stuff we showed (Captivate made my jaw drop!). I was also blown away by about 800 saxophone whistles that we passed out (note to self, high-pitched noise makers, and 800 excited designer / developers are not a good mix).
Note : Here are my raw notes from the keynote. They have not been edited or spell checked. I wanted to get them online as soon as possible. I will update them in the next hours and polish them a little better.
Max 2004 Keynote
Updated : We have posted a summary of the general session with pictures on the DevNet Center. You can view it here.
Unfortunately, wireless is not working in the conference hall so i wasn’t able to blog it live.
I am sitting in the LA airport waiting to get on my flight to New Orleans so I thought I would make a quick post.
I am posting this from my phone so I am going to keep it short. I am not doing any sessions this year as I really want to have a chance to hang out with everyone. However, I am in charge of the sneaks session on Wednesday. I can’t give any details, but I can say that it is going to be very “enlightening”. If you are at Max you can’t miss this session. If you are not there, then hope that someone video tapes it.
I have started to use a couple of apps on OS X that don’t have built in support for spell checking (FireFox, TextMate). So, I decided to put together a simple spell check application, named SpellMe. Here is a screenshot:
You can download the application here
Note : Only tested on OS X 10.3.5
The app is free, but if you end up using it, send me a postcard.
USE AT YOUR OWN RISK.
I have a created a couple of simple applications. I don’t charge anything for them, but if you use them and like them, please take a couple of minutes to send me a postcard and let me know.
Kenny Bunch figured out how to send binary files from one machine to another using the new File I/O capabilities in Macromedia Central and the Flash Communication server.
You can see a description and the code here.
Kevin Lynch has made a post talking about the next version of the Flash Player and describing what he showed last week at a conference in Tokyo.
You can read the post here.
You can view a video of the keynote here.
