Need to be inspired? Check this out

I was in a meeting at work last week and sometimes they show cool videos, it's usually something about the products we make.  This time however it was very different and I was really surprised and impressed that they showed this video.  It's something I have been pretty …

My first Mac hiccup experience

Well about a week ago I updated to 10.5.2 on my iMac, all was good and I continued to believe my Apple walked on water.  For some reason I simply forgot about Murphy's law, you know what can go wrong will go wrong? (or something like that) 

So at any rate back to my …

Dont be a Finacial Moron - Part 2

In a previous post - "Dont be a Financial Moron" I talked about an article regarding how you can improve your financial plan using five easy steps.  During my execution of these steps I found out some useful information that I thought I would share with you.   First …

Flex/Air/Flash Spell check component

I was browsing around on Adobe.com and hit up Mike Chambers blog. He talks about a new full featured spell check component that can be used for Flex, Flash and AIR!!  This is great, so I decided to go check out the component at Grant Skinner's blog.  I cant fully …

Flex 3 Features

So I am a little behind on all the Flex 3 Features, I attended a User Group meeting in St Louis last night where James Ward showed off many of the new features of Flex 3, AIR, BlazeDS to name a few.  Some of these were not new to me, however one of the items that I …

Adobe AIR to power Nasdaq & American Cancer Society

We all knew AIR would build up momentum and really take us to the next level in desktop applications working with internet based apps, especially those who saw it at MAX 07 during the showcase. I personally, got really excited... especially after seeing Thermo and how …

Brightcove.tv Plugin for Mango

I created a new mango plugin for the brightcove player, now you can add brightcove videos easily using the Mango Post tool in the admin by adding a simple tag [brightcove:videoid]. All you need to do is pass in the video ID when creating a new post in Mango and the …

Contact Manager Part 1 - Remoting Example

I put together a simple Flex application to show how easy it is to create a flash remoting flex application.  The app doesn't use a particular framework and I used the Flex CF Wizards to create all the ColdFusion code, which made my job really easy.  You have probably …

A new look

I know, I just started this blog and thought I was set on the skin I was using but.... Laura the creator of Mango Blog recently ported over a new skin called "GlossyBlue" by N. Design Studio and well I just really like it so I figured what the heck, might as well use it …

AdSense & AmazonAd Custom Tag for MangoBlog

I have been using Mango blog now for about 3 months on this site and I have been using it on a internal company site for a little over a year.  Mango blog is continuing to blossom into a great coldfusion blog engine that is extremely easy to skin, Laura at AsFusion is …

Ethanol - bad for the environment?

If you didnt already know, I am a owner of a Hybrid.  I love it, it is probably the best car I have ever owned and believe me I have owned a lot of vehicles, both luxury and the classics.  I was googling earlier today, trying to find out if my Prius could be adapted to …

Dont be a Financial Moron

I have been trying to get a handle on my finances for some time, its not that I am totally in debt.  My wife and I have very few credit cards, most of our debt is in our vehicles and our house of course.  What I am really struggling with was how I wanted to invest my …

Guitar Hero III - for Wii

I recently bought a Wii about 4 months ago and I will have to say its pretty cool.  Now the graphics are not as hot as the PS3 or the Xbox360, but the wiiremote allows for a more interactive game play in my opinion.  For xmas I ended buying myself the Guitar Hero III …

Wishlistr.com - manage your wishlist

A friend and I were thinking of creating a site where you could manage a wish list of things you want.  We both found that during the holidays its  a pain to manage what you want, along with what everyone else wants, am I right?  Well of course I am!  ;)  So we started …

Theme Inspiration - get kuler

I was reviewing some of the AIR applications that are available on Adobe Labs and came across Kuler.  Have you ever just had trouble finding a color palette for a new site or application your designing?  I know I have  and I like to call this designers block.  Sometimes …

FillColors Entry - Carbon

AsFusion started a new project called FillColors, "Fill Colors is the embodiment of the separation between style and layout in Flex and a demonstration of what's possible in terms of skinning a Flex application. Fill Colors invites designers to show their Flex …

FillColors - Winner, plus Contest 2 announced!

The carbon theme I submitted in late September ended up being the winner for the first round of FillColors.  Unfortunately I was the only submitter, I urge anyone who likes CSS, Flex and has a couple hours of free time to mess around with it and submit something.  Heck …

Fill Colors - One body many outfits

The team at AsFusion is at it again, a couple weeks ago they published fillcolors (http://www.fillcolors.com), a flex 2 skinning contest. The contest basically challenges flex developers and non-flex folks to reskin the fillcolors application using normal CSS among …

MAX 2007 @ Chicago

I am getting pretty pumped about the upcoming MAX this year, which is a Adobe conference that basically talks all about the new product releases of Adobe, has all sorts of sessions pertaining to its software and its a great place to meet folks that are interested in the …

My First day here at Virb

So I created my account yesterday, but just recently started fiddling with it. I must say Virb kicks myspace's ass for sure. You can tie into my myspace area is you like (http://myspace.com/gotjosh77), but I reckon my virb area will be much more exciting in the near …