http://caleb.org/blog Just another WordPress weblog Thu, 27 Mar 2008 08:15:26 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Without much fanfare, Adobe launched a web-based Photoshop yesterday. However, it's far from the Photoshop we all know and love... in fact, it's reminds me more of Vuvox than Photoshop. As we would say in California, it's lacking hella features...but hey, it's still forward progress. Anyway, just ... http://caleb.org/blog/actionscript-3/webflash-based-photoshop-is-real-sorta/ The FlashForward Conference and Film Festival has officially been acquired by none other than Beau Ambur (Founder of Metaliq). This is especially welcome news to me, because I have been a friend of Beau's for years, and have been working for him as a Senior Engineer for Metaliq for ... http://caleb.org/blog/uncategorized/beau-bought-flashforward-thanks-lynda/ Well, it's official; I am now faculty at the Academy of Art University. More specifically, I'm teaching a group directed study in the Academy of Art San Francisco's School of Digital Arts + Communications MFA program. Last Friday, I taught my first ActionScript class to graduate students working their way ... http://caleb.org/blog/uncategorized/now-teaching-actionscript-at-the-academy-of-art-mfa-program/ If you're a Flash/Flex or WPF/Silverlight engineer with some availability and are looking for interesting projects to work on, please get in touch with me. Metaliq, the place of my employment, is searching for talented engineers with experience creating rich, engaging user experiences. I am also personally interested ... http://caleb.org/blog/uncategorized/got-work/ Today CafePress Meter™, a quick project I have been working on that kicked off just weeks ago has gone live. You can check it out for yourself at: http://www.cafepress.com/cp/buy/elections08_meter. It's a tool built in Flex that allows you to view a "real-time look at what's selling at CafePress, the colorful ... http://caleb.org/blog/uncategorized/flex-elections-analytical-tool/ My New Year's resolution is simply to once again become an active blogger. So in 2008, you can expect to hear the following from me: Of course, whatever Flash/Flex/Silverlight trickery I find worthy of public mention The latest and greatest news from my adventures working at Metaliq, and getting my RIA consulting business ... http://caleb.org/blog/uncategorized/40/ If you haven't yet experienced the online phenomenon known as Twitter, then by all means check it out at Twitter.com. On the other hand, if you're an avid Twitterer, check out my profile and add me! Cheers http://caleb.org/blog/uncategorized/do-you-twitter/ I have been messing around with Apollo and Flex quite a bit lately (actually, I fell in love with it ... but that's another article). Unfortunately, the solutions for viewing trace output that I have found were less than satisfying. They were either too cumbersome to implement, or ... http://caleb.org/blog/uncategorized/the-easiest-way-to-view-flexapollo-trace-output/ Yahoo! Mail now has a publicly accessible API! Check it out at: http://developer.yahoo.net/blog/archives/2007/03/mail.html Not only that, Yahoo! is actually offering a monetary incentive for developers who manage to sell their premium accounts. The following is taken from the official announcement on Yahoo Developer Network: Yahoo! Mail Web Service developers can earn referral ... http://caleb.org/blog/uncategorized/pimp-yahoo-mail/ Recently, I was fortunate enough to speak at WebDU (Web Down Under), "A rock concert for geeks". WebDU is an Australian based web conference which boasts the highest speaker to attendee ratio of any major RIA/Web 2.0 conference. The conference itself was exceptional. I had the ... http://caleb.org/blog/uncategorized/what-it-du-webdu-report-back/