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I'm sitting here feeling relatively stupid, and a little ripped off. I invested 4+ hours to do something that I should have been able to figure out in about 5 minutes or less. I have been trying to figure out how to upload an image to Tumblr using their very simple API. After many attempts at sending the binary data from a ByteArray I finally figured it out...duh.Of course there are ...

Its last minute, but I'll be sharing the meeting with friend, cohort, and UDFUG manager John Lindquist. I'll try and take up 45 minutes talking about AIR windows ( NativeWindow stuff really ) and some fun toys I've made. There will also be a fun little announcement at the meeting ( more on that later ). I think one of the toughest parts of presenting is knowing what your ...

They're saying it isn't for non-developers at this point so beware. I am downloading it as I type and will post updates as I mess around with it. The release details are here: http://developer.mozilla.org/devnews/index.php/2007/12/18/firefox-3-beta-2-now-available-for-download/.

Beta 3 is now available on labs. It doesn't look like anything major changed, unlike the transition from beta 1 to beta 2 you should be able to migrate pretty easily. I haven't seen a nice overview of the changes outside of the release notes so far and the link on devnet introducing 3 is linking to Mike Chamber's beta 2 announcement. I'll update as soon as that ...

I'd like to announce something that I've been working on during the past month that I've been too busy with to announce. You might guess by the title of this post that I'm co-authoring the Adobe AIR Bible for Wiley Publishing. I'm excited to be working with Ben Gorton and Ryan Taylor, both colleagues that I met and have the pleasure of working with at Schematic. The Bible ...

I'll be speaking at the LA Web Developer Meetup in Glendale on October the 23rd. Here's the info: http://web.meetup.com/34/calendar/6440869/ I'm going to give an ultra quick rundown on getting started with developing applications in the Adobe AIR Platform. Its supposed to be only 10 minutes with a 5 minutes Q and A, so it will definitely be rapid. I'm hoping to get to "Hello World" at the very least ...

Yeah, so Flash in the Can is coming up quick here, and a hoard of Schematic peeps will be there. I know offhand that at least seven of us will be there, including Robert Reinhardt, Ben Gorton, Dan Cluff, Carlos Zumbado, Leon Coto, Jon Ruppel, Andrew Keegan, and myself. Robert and Jon will both be speaking. Robert is speaking about deploying FLV using FLVPlayback and Jon's topic will ...

So Schematic's LA Multimedia Platforms Groups presented at LA-AIR last week ( http://www.laflash.org/community/node/248 ). We presented our website, schematic.com and the AIR thumbnailer we use to thumbnail the dynamic contend thats driven by CMS. It was great getting up infront of a relaxed crowd and showing off the site, and it was great to present with Dan, Ben and Mike. It was actually my first speaking flash/flex speaking engagement ...

I spent my first four months at my new company, Schematic working with Roger Braunstein and Michael Avila on the all new Schematic.com. Here are some of the pages on the site that I'd like to highlight: MotionReel, Image/Video Media player, Our Clients. Plenty of people have already blogged about this site, so I'll list some of the interesting details, and then a list of blogs of people talking ...