Here’s an article on the Adobe Developer Connection entitled “Transitioning from Microsoft Windows Media to the Adobe Flash Platform” that describes some of the differences in the technologies, including differences between Flash and Silverlight. I thought it was pretty interesting and useful in understanding the key differences.  Since I’ve had a few posts that touch [...]

Today, I found a solution to a minor but perpetually annoying problem that I’ve run into many times and decided to share it for those of you who, like me, didn’t know there was a solution available yet. First, some background. There are a lot of examples and tutorials out there in the worldwide Flex [...]

In the previous post, I mentioned the use of Silverlight by the PIC website but didn’t list sites that will be using Flash to stream the Inauguration.  Here’s some links: NY Times CNN Fox News UStreamTV Hulu NPR CBS Viacom/MTV Facebook PBS USAToday MSNBC And yes, that last one is MSNBC.

While surfing the web, I found this blog post by Chuck Freedman that points an article talking about the announcement that the Presidential Inaugural Committee (PIC) will be (proudly) using Silverlight to stream the inauguration.  Here’s the press release from Microsoft.  It’s a little funny because, with a little searching, you’ll find a bunch of blog posts that [...]

At the last Seattle Flex User Group meeting, I presented a brief demonstration on skinning using Fireworks CS4 and Flex Builder 3.  Because it’s so easy to do, it went by pretty quick so I thought I’d post the steps here to give people a reference if they want to try it themselves. Before you [...]