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21Dec/072

Talkin’ smack with GameStop and Flex

The last Flex project I was working on before I left Click Here to join Blockdot was a site for GameStop known as the Smack Talk Generator. While the site was originally due to launch before my departure, there were unforeseen events that pushed that date out and I didn’t get to finish it up. Since that was the case, the project was handed over to a couple of my (now former) coworkers for completion and I was told that it launched yesterday.

Ok, so what exactly is this Smack Talk Generator? Well, the short version of it is this: Since gamers like to talk smack to each other, they can now do it via email (linking out of course) with voice and animation. To talk smack with someone, you simply drag words you want to use from an available “word bank” and drop them in the smack sentence area. Your chosen words can then be removed or rearranged as you see fit and then you can choose an animation to play along with your smack, preview it and then send it all out to your friends. That’s it in a nutshell.

So get over there to check it out and then come back here because I’d love to hear what you think.

One more thing for Chris, Scott and Charlie (and anyone else involved in the project): GREAT JOB GUYS!

Filed under: Advertising, Flex, Sites 2 Comments

17Aug/073

Are you running your horse in the Air Derby?

AIR I’ve been using Flex and AIR lately to create a couple of apps for internal use at the office and I’ve got to say that (at least for now) I’m hooked. Since I’m enjoying it so much, I thought I’d enter an app in the AIR Developer Derby and with the deadline drawing closer every day, I’ve been wondering just how many people might be entering as well (my guess is that it’s going to be a huge number).

While I won’t ask what you’re developing because you don’t want to show your hand too soon, I would love to hear how many of you are making something for the derby. Take a second to chime in and good luck to everyone in advance.

Filed under: AIR, Flex 3 Comments

3Mar/070

Hyundai Community Site (built in Flex)

UPDATE ————— (OCT. 3, 2008) ————— UPDATE
It seems as though the company that is/was handling the data has dropped the ball. As a result, a vast majority of the site is down and has been for a while now.

On Friday afternoon we launched a new community site for the new Hyundai Elantra. In addition to offering plenty of information about the new car, the site (which was built with Flex and Ruby) allows users to register as members. Once signed in, a user can modify several aspects of their profile, add favorites to lists of movies, songs and books, share rss feeds and manage their list of friends (as well as send messages and leave comments). I’m very proud of what we’ve accomplished with this site and I hope you get a chance to check it out soon.

Here’s the link again just in case you missed it above: Hyundai Community Site

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3Aug/060

Adobe’s Flex 2 Challenges AJAX

Here’s a nice little article that I just read over at Tech News World about Flex 2. It talks about the pricing model and about some of Flex’s capabilities which AJAX does not possess.

“I don’t think Adobe had much of a choice if they wanted to remain competitive,” said Richard Monson-Haefel, senior analyst at the Burton Group, of the new pricing scheme. Adobe says Flex offers capabilities not available in AJAX, such as powerful data management and rich media and graphics.

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1Feb/06Off

Finally broke down and installed Flex

Flex I can’t really explain why I’ve been so reluctant to download and install Flex/Flash Player 8.5 (mainly because I don’t really know why), but I finally broke down and did it tonight. Then I walked through a few of the tutorials… man do I hate it when I do something and then think to myself, “And why was it that I didn’t do this much sooner?” After just the few tutorials that I did, I have to say that Flex is friggin’ AWESOME! I’m pretty slammed at work right now so I’ll have to wait until I get a bit of a slow window before I can dive too much further into Flex and I can already tell you I’m going to be chompin’ at the bit in a bad way on this one. In the meantime, I may try to stay up a little later at night and do a little tinkering (with Flex of course).

Anyway, I just had to post and share my thoughts on how cool this is at first encounter. I’d love to hear some other first impressions (whether from a Flex “n00b” or someone who’s been coding in it for a while).

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