Simeon Says

I was on vacation last week when the iPad got announced. I knew the day was coming and I found that I just didnt have the pull to put down my Bahama Mamma poolside and try to find out what the new life altering amazing device was. So it wasnt until this week [...]

Yesterday was a very exciting day. The second beta of the Adobe AIR 2.0 framework was release.
Features of AIR 2.0 include:

Enhanced support for interacting with printers (beta 2)
Support for TLS/SSL socket communication (beta 2)
Support for the detection of mass storage devices.
Advanced networking capabilities like secure sockets, UDP support, and the ability to listen on sockets.
Support [...]

This is a quick personal post to update my friends that are far from me.
Many of you know that Carrie and I have been trying to have another child. We have a wonderful 3 year old little girl but she very badly wants to have siblings. We have been working on that task [...]

If you are on a mac and had tried to use the Release Notes instructions to update your sdk, you may have been led astray. I found that the instructions were not just misleading they were wrong. I tried to get them updated by sending a couple emails and posting on the forums [...]

Wow, I had no idea this feature existed. Christian Cantrell posted this morning about using Labels in actionscript 3 to control the break and continue statements of nested loops. What a great feature!
Check out Christians post here: Labels in ActionScript 3

I see that an update to the rails framework got posted. Rails 2.3.5 is out in the wild and you can see what is new here. I also read about a new ruby framworks called Rango. Rango favors simplicity over giving you an opinion on how your code should be written. Perhaps I [...]

Make sure you come on out this thursday ( the 19th of November) to hear about The Joys of Flex 4: The Good, the New, and the Odd…
Josh Noble will be joining is to get us up to speed on all that is new in Flex 4.
Meeting is at PCC Sylvania in TCB 209. [...]

If you have not heard, AIR 2.0 is out on Adobe Labs and has all sorts of new and wonderful features.
There are plenty of instructions for getting the SDK running available. But the one bit that caused me the most trouble in upgrading and using AIR 2.0 was this:
REMEMBER TO UPDATE YOUR APPLICATION DESCRIPTOR [...]

I was browsing over on github today and I noticed a new project called Cocoa-amf. Cocoa-amf brings native AMF serialization to Cocoa applications like the ones used for the iPhone. What does this really mean? Well it means for developers utilizing the flash platform do develop applications you can now build iPhone [...]

I saw this when I was browsing the net this morning and thought it looked really cool. I have not used it yet but wanted to post it and see if anyone had success with it yet?
Eclipse Plug-in: Download AS3 libraries straight to your Eclipse/Flex Builder/FDT project | Rozengain.com – Creative Technology Blog.