Book Exceprt: Application Performance Strategies

Click here to check out an excerpt from my new book "Professional Flex 3".

http://www.cynergysystems.com/blogs/page/andrewtrice?entry=excerpt_application_performance_strategies

Available in stores in June, or on Amazon Today!

• http://www.wrox.com/WileyCDA/WroxTitle/productCd-0470223642.html
  
• http://www.amazon.com/Professional-Adobe-Flex-Joseph-Balderson/dp/0470223642

Coming Soon

Professional Flex 3
1488 pages of Flex, coming very soon....



http://www.wrox.com/WileyCDA/WroxTitle/productCd-0470223642.html
http://www.amazon.com/Professional-Adobe-Flex-Joseph-Balderson/dp/0470223642

Yeah, I know the descriptions and images on those sites aren't up to date, but they will be soon.

Multi-touch R&D

Here's a fun R&D project I was working on last week, using multi-touch with AIR. People have been asking "why not just use WPF"... I am well aware that I could have done that. My questions is "why not use AIR"? It was a test to see what you can actually do with AIR and multi-touch hardware. I'll either use a socket communication to a low level process, use WPF, or wait until AIR/Flash support true multi-touch before using using it in a real project, but it's always a good thing to know and push the limits of the technology you work with.



You can read my original posting here:
http://cynergysystems.com/blogs/page/andrewtrice?entry=adobe_air_windows_7_multi

Interview w/ Ribbit @ MAX

I just stumbled across this today... I was interviewed at Adobe MAX 2008, at the Ribbit booth.

It's cold

I took a photograph of the thermometer in my rental car this morning... This is 100% real. The only photoshopping is that the image was cropped. Definitely the coldest weather I have ever experienced.



That number is really negative twenty (-20) degrees Farenheit, which is also -28.8 degrees Celsius.

Geoblog - New Year's Fishing Trip

Here' s the geoblog of a recent new year's fishing trip with my brother Doug and brother-in-law Charlie. We caught 2 decent sized striped bass (rockfish) around 23 inches, and a bunch of dogfish. Nothing was big enough to keep, but it was a fun time.



You can check it out directly in your browser using the Google Earth Plugin here:
http://www.tricedesigns.com/portfolio/geoblog/2009.01.01/

Click on an image to see details about it, including altitude, latitude, longitude, and time taken. Note: this requires the Google Earth plugin to work properly.

If you wish to view this directly in Google Earth, just load this KMZ file:
http://www.tricedesigns.com/portfolio/geoblog/2009.01.01/fishing_geoblog.kmz

If you're curious how I created this, check out my recent blog post on insideRIA.com where I explain how it was put together.

I had the catch of the day with this striper (rockfish):


Enjoy!