The best quote, “My money is on Adobe simply because of those two invisible weapons, PDF and Flash.”. The comments are heavy on flaming Adobe/Flash and pumping Microsoft. Read the full article here.

I have made the official switch to Adobe land. I have the red badge now. I have been working as a contractor on a cool project in Adobe developing AS3/Flex classes and components for the past 2+ months. It is real fun and things are moving fast both job and personal wise, it will be hectic couple of months. I think as things settle down more I’ll have more perspective of what it really means to be an Adobe employee. But for now I am...

Its cool to see the Flex developer base grow more and more everyday. I came across a Flex and PHP article in the lastest php|architect magazine. The article is titled “Flexing PHP” and is by Jeof Oyster. If you read Jeof Oyster’s bio, he is a product manager for a financial services company and freelancer by night. This is a cool sign of the breadth of Flex developers and the rise in outside Adobe/Macromedia circles expose...

There is a new derby that is going along with the release of Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR). The prizes are just plain crazy. I haven’t seen a derby this big. The grand prize will be a trip of a lifetime worth up to $100,000. Their will also be 5 other category winners with a really nice prizes full of a newly loaded Mac Pro (8 core) and goodies to go along with it. Read for yourself… Too bad I can’t compete as I am...

I just noticed the blurb on apple.com abot Apple TV and being able to view YouTube videos. It says it wont be out til June (coming soon i guess), but it has me thinking. It has me thinking of Adobe Media Player (as known as Philo) or AMP and the future. Adobe Media Player is an Apollo application with many great features for consumers as wells a content providers. It would be cool to see Apollo runtime make it on to more hardware appliances...

Jame’s is going over the basics of RIA’s and Flex/Apollo. Showing of the auto insurance use case app outlining the reasons for RIA’s. He showed how do a Flickr mashup with Ely’s DisplayShelf with two lines of code. It show the power of using Flex components. The second half of the meeting James talked on Cairngorm and Modules. Plenty of people showed up and there were plenty of questions. Turned out to be a real nice