JADBOX: Web Application Musings

Adobe MAX09 Aftermath

Overall, what we learned at Adobe Max this year was really nothing different than what we already knew months ago almost. Granted, finding out that Flash CS5 can export iPhone apps (perhaps they bundle the player and the flash file together?) was pretty neat- it was not really unexpected. Every ...

Countdown to Mobile Flash Player 10

Adobe announced that this years MAX event will be one of the most significant ones in the history of the event. There are lots of rumors floating around on what might be unveiled during the event. We know from enough sources that Adobe plans to showcase Flash Player 10 running ...

Us versus “Them”

Labels are dangerous when used improperly regardless if they were created in good intentions. The present day world is filled with named factions that rage verbal or physical war on each other for nothing more than self affirming the dominance of their party. This is somehow deeply ingrained in our ...

Round 2: haXe vs Unity3D vs O3D vs SFML

The bell rings, and it's another showdown between modern drawing APIs. Over the past couple weeks, I have weeded out many of my choices of libraries to now these four. What happened to some of the others? XNA, I determined, was way too XBOX360 centric with its multitasking, shaders, and ...

haXe 2.04 – Surprises and Yawns

Over the weekend, we finally had a new release of haXe made available, bringing the current version up to 2.04. The new version mostly is for resolving a slew of obscure bugs; however it also introduces early C++ translation support which is definitely something to keep an eye on. Now ...

Engineering 2.0

One of major benefits of working with computers and internet-based technologies are the massive communities behind them. Such communities offer feedback on ideas, technical help, and tutoring. In addition, standards begin to arise on their own because developers want to be able to integrate with other existing services to ease ...

FlashMVC 2.01 update released

Here are just a couple more enhancements to FlashMVC I was able to add over the weekend. These will not only automate a few things, but it makes room for additional addons in the future. There are two new features that have been added to SuperAction: bindVars(... REST):void This method looks at ...

The Future of Language Interfaces

Ever had one of those times where you had quickly dismissed a piece of software only to find how essential it was after giving it a try later on? This happen to me roughly last week when I had issues with quick launch icons and desktop shortcuts. I had so ...

Twitter Riddle Answer

This week has been pretty slow, but I recently had a reader email me his answer to my twitter critter riddle and thought it was a funny yet cheesy ripoff of the woodchuck riddle answer... Riddle: How many tweets could a critter twitter if a critter could twitter tweets? Answer: A critter ...

Why HTML 5 is NOT a Flash killer

The RSS feeds are abuzz lately about the new W3C standard of HTML 5 for browsers. In my opinion, the new standard defines new features that are way overdue. Canvas drawing and video playback are features that should have been implemented nearly 10 years ago. Perhaps if the W3C had ...

FlashMVC 2.0 Released!

I am very pleased to announce a major update to FlashMVC to version 2.0 with its OWN website at www.flashmvc.com! This version is a complete rewrite of the original version with better attention to scalability and framework usage. Since this is a dramatic upgrade, I have changed the package name ...

Cing from Java – C++ quirks

Lately I have been toying around with Visual C++ to rebuild some of my pathfinding algorithms done originally in AS3 and CSharp. While working on porting the code over, I can’t help to feel that OOP was just slapped into C++ from C. I might be getting this feeling as ...

What’s New, Doc?

I have had some people asking me what I have been scheming lately which in honest hasn't been much. The weather here in Michigan has been finally nice for a change so I have been spending most of my free time cycling. However, I did go out last weekend and ...