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Techcrunch just sold to AOL . I understand the need to sell? But why AOL? Independently of what they bring to the table, it’s just a terrible brand to be associated with. When you see what NewsCorp did to MySpace, it should make Arrington cautious. Just about any dodgy Russian Mafia backed firm would have […]

I stumbled across this “Web Installation”, in the contemporary art museum sense. It’s really cool, and unfortunately Chrome only. Need I say it’s HTML5? Apart from being impressed and drawn in,  I often thought to myself that it was marred by the crappy browser chrome (all the stuff around the actual content of the window). […]

We’re starting to use Haxe in Silex, and it fell to me to start porting the core from as2 to Haxe. We’ve decided to do it progressively, so that means getting as2 and Haxe code to work together in the same SWF.  so Ii’ve written my first Haxe related post over here: http://www.silexlabs.org/the-blog/fr/2010/09/haxe-and-as2/

http://www.silexlabs.org/the-blog/fr/2010/08/amfphp-2-0-roadmap/

To test a new app in Internet Explorer 8 I decided to try the virtualization route on my Mac. I installed XP on parallels, and of course included was IE6. No problems, I’ll just download an update, I thought. Not so simple: The IE8 installer I was offered by default is in French, but it […]

I’ve posted a formalization of the discussions we’re having about the future of Silex over at the Silex Labs blog: http://www.silexlabs.org/the-blog/fr/2010/07/future-silex-developments/

just a quick tip of the hat to someone with some serious hacking skills who got Flash to run on an IPad. http://www.redmondpie.com/flash-on-apple-ipad-video/

So I finally got around to trying the Ipad. I’m not yet decided on whether or not I want to buy one, but I sure do like the experience. And the experience I find drives the following points home, that I think can be applied to building stuff for the web: – Purists can say […]

We’ve been tossing the idea of plugins for AMFPHP around, and so here’s what come of it. Please share your thoughts on this. Note: this is a copy of a mil I’ve sent to the amfphp-cvs mailing list Why? People who want to contribute to the AMFPHP community currently mst have their contribution vetted by […]