http://initApp.com Sat, 21 Jun 2008 18:34:30 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This isn't a technical article. Although it could be about a person you know that does technical things well. This article is about taking a couple of extra minutes out of your day to acknowledge someone that always does a terrific job. Those rare people who through their everyday work ... http://initApp.com/2008/06/21/the-6-parnassus-william-gibson-and-acknowledging-a-job-well-done/ Don't you just love an exciting headline. If you haven't heard by now, Share (Document Services API) is an online service provided by Adobe that allows you to share, publish, and organize documents online. Share is already a good service, but it can be an even better service with a ... http://initApp.com/2008/05/11/adobe-share-actionscript-library-goes-community-updated-now-with-pdf-support/ I was busy last week and unable to make it to most of the show, but I did use my free expo pass on thursday morning to see the Keynotes, a mesh demo, and take a pass through the expo hall. Overall it was worth it. At the very least ... http://initApp.com/2008/04/28/web-expo-20-thoughts-getting-my-hands-meshy-and-is-curling-a-game-that-will-really-take-off/ Adobe Share has received a much needed update to its document embed capability. The previous version required keen eyesight or the use of a magnifying glass to read the embedded docs. The new version has received the "fullscreen" button treatment. I consider this the only real way to read these ... http://initApp.com/2008/03/29/handout-updated-to-use-share-improvements-well-the-ones-you-can-use-more-than-5-times/ I'm completely serious about this next sentence. Get a library card. The San Francisco public library (and many others) offer Safari Online for free. The library also has these things on shelves called books, they are made of paper(comes from trees) and have words in them. I highly recommend checking ... http://initApp.com/2008/03/13/how-to-get-safari-technical-books-online-for-free-more/ File this one under "when I could have been creating something useful, I created this" I've been using PrivatePaste.com quite often of late and thought hmm... it would be simple to create a quick as3 library for using the service. Unfortunately PrivatePaste isn't intended to be used as a web service. ... http://initApp.com/2008/03/09/my-code-look-pretty-someday-or-turning-your-geshi-install-into-a-service-and-using-it-with-as3/ When your average developer hears about a design conference or lecture they often don't give it a thought. Its like a developer sitting in a meeting while designers argue over fonts. Early in my career I often didn't pay designers any mind, but as I matured I realized that there ... http://initApp.com/2008/03/07/stefan-sagmeister-at-designmatters-for-designers-developers-everyone/ So I've heard a few people today mention that Silverlight is going to be running on new nokia handsets. (Article 1, Article 2) I especially enjoyed the end of the article 1. Nokia is only prepared to say that a Silverlight developers' kit is "intended" to be available during 2008, and ... http://initApp.com/2008/03/04/silverlight-to-run-on-linux-oh-wait-that-was-last-year/ Now that Pownce has released an official API covering features such as posting files, I decided to go ahead and make an AS3 library for it. I just posted it to googlecode and have only done minimal testing on it. I would appreciate any feedback. The Pownce team did a terrific ... http://initApp.com/2008/03/03/pownce-actionscript-3-library-released-full-api-v20-implementation-upload-files-and-everything/ So this morning Pownce finally released a true API that allows us to use the full functionality of Pownce. A while back I posted information on how to do this in a reverse engineered method, but now we can do it without the feeling that we might be doing something ... http://initApp.com/2008/02/29/posting-a-notelink-to-pownce-with-actionscript-and-the-new-pownce-v20-api/