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Archive for September, 2007

Multi-touch interaction with flash

  • Filed under: Labs, RIA
Thursday
Sep 13,2007

When I started working at LogicaCMG’s Frontend Centre, one of the first projects I got my hands dirty on was helping out a student who was graduating on a multi-touch prototype. Remember, this was before the iPhone/Microsoft hype happened ;). Multi-touch was new for me, and for a lot of other people too.

We got together and decided to give building the prototype in flash a try. Boy did we have fun :) It is tricky though…. operating systems (and the products -e.g. flash- running on them) asume there will be only 1 pointer. Think about it…. flash has had onRelease for ages…. but it doesn’t incorporate a way to get which mouse is down.
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Silverlight vs Flash….why?

  • Filed under: RIA
Wednesday
Sep 12,2007

I must have been living under a rock lately, but somehow I missed the event of Silverlight taking over the world. I am completely stunned by the fact that a lot of people hear Microsoft shoot out some bold statements, and they conclude that the web is reinvented… so many wrong arguments and so hard to start discussing about them with all their inventors. Must be the downside of making it so easy to start a blog… wrong opinions can be published just as easily… ( just in case, I am janking a chain here. Don’t take that too seriously).
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Saturday
Sep 1,2007

Finally someone who can explain Cairngorm in plain english