I’ve been looking a little bit around Adobe Labs the past couple of days as I await the availability of Creative Suite 3. I’ll definitely be buying Design Premium or Web Premium, as I use several of the tools (despite the fact that the cost terrifies me). In doing so, and looking more closely at [...]
My wife, Alli, has a number of PDF ebooks she purchased from the Center for Creative Leadership. These ebooks come with built in DRM for anti-printing. They also seem tied somehow to an Adobe Reader version earlier than Adobe Reader 8. When she had Reader 7 installed, they worked fine. She [...]
November 13, 2006
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Over at Application Generation, Forta Blog and at An Architect’s View, there’s yet another iteration of the “long term viability of ColdFusion” discussions going on. Peter Bell, Ben Forta and Sean Corfield are all smart cookies, and more than adequately eloquent on the subject matter. That said, here’s my $0.02.
Adobe spent a lot [...]
Everybody, BIG breath in! Oooooooh!
Get it. Now. Do cool stuff.
Adobe labs has made the beta of Adobe Digital Editions available.
This looks to be a promising product, having yet another lash at the ebook space. To my mind, ebooks have been cruelled by a number of factors over the several years different vendors have been trying to get in on this idea:
the inconvenience of [...]
March 22, 2006
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UPDATE – Tink has a post on his blog about pinching the relevant bits from the Windows install and moving them to a Mac. Hopefully this will work on Beta 2…
No doubt many of you will have seen that Flex 2.0 Beta 2 has been released at Adobe Labs. This is exciting stuff [...]
February 3, 2006
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I’m using the latest milestone release of the Eclipse IDE, and when I tried to install Flex 2 Beta 1 in plugin mode, the install to Eclipse fails, as it expects an Eclipse 3.1 build and the components that go with it. Judging by the error messages in the log, it seems it won’t [...]
December 11, 2005
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As developers who use the (formerly) Macromedia toolset, we’re used to having almost more information than we can take being on tap. The official information source that is the Developer Exchanges have always been a massively useful place to go for hints, tips and news about our favorite products.
As far as I can see, [...]