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Cooking with Stacy and Max

maxtmax — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 02:03:42 +0000

After a successfull attempt to prepare a Cod, Potatoe & Leak soup along with a side serving of Russian home cooked crapes I’ve decided to start a new website that documents our adventures.

Cooking with Stacy and Max can be foudn here.

Gumbo effects comming soon

maxtmax — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 05:34:07 +0000

Gumbo: the next release of Adobe Flex SDK interface will has some interesting and useful features. The idea of developing custom controls [like buttons or menues] which slide in and out based on mouse interaction can be problematic to build. The logic of incomplete slide ins and slide outs along with the gittery screen can cause the application to look unpolished.

All of this is about to change as you can see in this video describing the new sequence functionality that will be available in the next release. Have a look at the more complex sequences.

PS: seems that the new release will be hitting the shelf sometime in the second half of 2009.

Google taking on the browser market with Chrome

maxtmax — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 14:55:03 +0000

For those of you who haven’t heard Google has released a new browser Chrome.

Although the browser is yet to reach it’s full potential and is currently only offered on a Windows platform it has some valued benefits. One can have a look at an interesting comic about the utility but the main gist is that the application tackles the problem of memory leaks that are evidently present in FF & IE.

stacyhung.com

maxtmax — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 01:14:49 +0000

Another creation, this time for someone special. Happy Birthday Stacy.

Google & Yahoo are ready to search Flash files

maxtmax — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 14:28:12 +0000

It is about time someone in Adobe stood up and fixed the oldest disadvantage in Flash. Finally, Google and Yahoo caches will be able to adequately parse the contents of SWF Flash files and retrieving text values from graphically advanced objects.

Developers such as my self who are boggled by Flash capabilities and at the same time annoyed by the disadvantages of setting up a highly functional webpage only to face the inevitability of fighting browsers and client settings were forced to find other means of providing the infamous crawlers with the content that could not be retrieved from the compiled Flash executable.

Here are some facts that one might find interesting:

1. The new improvement can be applied to every version of the SWF format. [Both old and new].

2. Developers do not need to modify their existent project to make the content more searchable, the information will be available at the get go.

3. Google has already began the rollout process of the new searchable SWF capability.

4. At the moment the searching capabilities only affects the text base interior of the SWF file. Currently there is no logic that focuses on the graphical [images] aspect of the infrastructure.

Overall the new changes spell faster, better search results when it comes to working with flash. The long despised draw back can finally be forgotten and a new age of vibrant high dimensional applications is waiting to make their mark on the web.

New project: two-become-one.org

maxtmax — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 06:13:10 +0000

Another client, another design, another adventure.

www.two-become-one.org: Soon to be fully up and running a new wedding planner website is in the process of being created.

Coding Tips [developing software]

maxtmax — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 15:11:43 +0000

An interesting read about how to write good code [click], how to cope with project complexity and overall become a better software developer.