I wanted to write about the release of Flash CS4 so naturally I went to Adobe’s home page looking for a copy of their new CS4 logo to paste into my article. But much to my surprise, the CS4 logo was nowhere to be found. Various glyphs, runes, icons or elements representing other software applications were liberally scattered throughout Adobe’s site but I couldn’t find a single image with the new CS4 logo.
Is Adobe ashamed of their new logo?
They might be …
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Unfortunately the release of Adobe Flash Player 10 has revealed a weakness in my version detection code. As a result, the pageflip SWF will fail to load and viewers will be prompted to download the Flash 6 Player. Fortunately there are 2 quick fixes …
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This neat little Flash app tests your ability to eyeball (estimate) geometric angles and distances and then compares your results to the last 10,000 people who took the test.
I got the following results:
| Parallelogram | 7.6 | 3.2 | 6.1 |
| Midpoint | 1.4 | 7.3 | 4.5 |
| Bisect angle | 0.9 | 4.8 | 3.5 |
| Triangle center | 2.2 | 1.2 | 3.0 |
| Circle center | 5.1 | 1.0 | 1.4 |
| Right angle | 5.5 | 0.6 | 4.2 |
| Convergence | 10.0 | 2.0 | 6.4 |
Average error: 3.90 (lower is better)
How did you do?
Do you think this sort of skill correlates to your design sensibility in any way or helps you perform design related tasks?
I attended Flash and Flex author Joey Lott’s seminar “How To Architect Flex Applications” (hosted by CPAUG and CPFUG) last Friday and I must admit I wasn’t as disappointed as Mr. Lott promised I would be. Joey Lott assured us that we’d be horribly bored and bewildered by his dry technical presentation and even recommended a brief nap as a sound alternative.
Fortunately I managed to stay awake long enough to learn about the “Agile” software development method. Although this technique is best suited for large projects with a team of developers, some of its principles can still be applied to smaller projects …
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