Gumbo the next version of Flex

The next version of Flex, code name Gumbo, is now in active development. It is has 3 primary themes:

• Design in Mind: provide a framework meant for continuous collaboration between designer and developer.
• Developer Productivity: improve compiler performance and add productivity enhancements to language features like data binding
• Framework Evolution: take advantage of new Flash Player capabilities and add features required by common use-cases

Watch a presentation on the Gumbo plan (~14 mins)

How can we understand the world?

Recently I have come into contact with a large demonstration from let’s just say an eastern country to avoid any political back-lash. As I tried to understand the issues, I began to understand there are always two sides to a story. The question then becomes who is right? In the case of civil war, dictatorship etc. is anyone really ever right? All wars or dictatorships, create human voilations. So how does one choose a side, or even understand an issue completely? What is the solution?

Listening to Hydrogeologists

http://ping.fm/0r4j4

Flicker OddSocksSuck

Hola!
Just back from Cuba, I am very happy to be Canadian. It is amazing how much we take for granted. See pic’s of soldiers, architecture etc. on flicker shortly, search for OddSocksSuck.

Coming soon, Adobe Thermo

If your interested in Rich Internet Applications, your going to want to know about Thermo, Adobe’s soon to be released UI.

Thermo is the much needed application that allows designers to build on familiar workflows to visually create working applications that easily flow into production and development.

Features

• Use drawing tools to create original graphics, wireframe an application design, or manipulate artwork imported from Adobe Creative Suite tools.
• Turn artwork from Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, or Fireworks directly into functional components that use the original artwork as a “skin”.
• Define and wire up interactive behavior, such as what to do when a user clicks on something, without having to write code.

Easily design UIs that work with dynamic data, such as a list of contacts or product information, without having access to the actual data source. Design-time sample data can be used as a realistic placeholder when laying out an application, testing interactivity, and choreographing motion.

Applications created in Thermo are Flex applications that can be loaded directly into Flex Builder, providing a great roundtrip workflow for designers collaborating with developers. The designer’s work can be incorporated directly into the production application with no loss of fidelity, and designers can continue to refine the design throughout the iterative development process.

Watch Thermo in action:

http://www.adobe.com/newsletters/edge/december2007/video/index.html