For the past few years, Adobe has helped us celebrate the holiday season by bringing us Flash Holiday Card Creators (2006 & 2007). This year, though, brings something new...a Holiday Greeting Slide-Puzzle AIR App!

This app not only makes the traditional holiday greeting a little more interactive, but it also supports Adobe's global sustainability goals by helping eliminate printed greeting cards. Install it, try solving it, and share it with your friends using your own picture!

Happy Holidays!

Charles

The project formerly known as "Project San Dimas" is all grown up now is now officially called "eBay Desktop".

Looks like we did something right. The project has even moved from it's old domain, www.projectsandimas.com to it's own website as a subdomain of eBay! You can now download Project San Dimas eBay Desktop from http://desktop.ebay.com! Take 'er for a spin and give Alan Lewis (eBay PM for the project) some feedback.

Charles

I just got back home from my trip doing the Tech Talk Tour and we've had some really great events! The tour was a big success and I'd like to thank everyone who attended and especially those who helped out on campus.

Anyways, for those who are interested, I'll be posting my demo code from the presentation as my next blog post, probably entitled something like, "Flickr Photo Viewer Demo"^*. My slide deck though, is posted below (I've only posted one copy, since they were mostly the same for each university). As for my visit to the Vancouver Flash User Group, I used a different presentation and demo which is actually the basis for my "States Tutorial", so look out for that in a week or two. So if anyone had questions or feedback, feel free to let me know :)

Thanks again to everyone who participated and hopefully there'll be more to come!

What is Adobe Flex 2?

^*Update: The Flex Flickr Viewer, can be located here - http://work.whoischarles.com/content/flickr-photo-viewer-in-50-lines-of-code

^**Update: The Flex Transitions and Effects Sandbox, can be located here - http://work.whoischarles.com/content/transitions-effects-demo

Charles

As part of our university initiative, we have piloted the beginnings of a Tech Talk Tour, starting with our very first event at the University of Ottawa. Zee, a fellow intern at Adobe, has just finished presenting at the event and it was a great success!

We have since scheduled Adobe Tech Talks at 4 more schools within the next few weeks, the rest of which I will be presenting at. Looks like I'm going on tour! See the schedule and see if you can make an appearance!

• University of Toronto (Toronto, ON)
• Monday, Oct. 30^th @ 4:00pm
• BA1130 in the Bahen Centre Building
• University of Western Ontario (London, ON)
• Thursday, Nov. 2^nd @ 5:30pm
• Room 2202 in the Spencer Engineering Building
• Simon Fraser University (Burnaby, BC)
• Tuesday, Nov. 7^th @ 12:00pm
• Room T9204 in the new TASC Building
• University of British Columbia (Vancouver, BC)
• Wednesday, Nov. 8^th @ 5:30pm
• DMP310 in the Hugh Dempster Pavilion

If you're in the area and are interested in learning more about Flex and Apollo development, drop on by!

Charles