18 month ago
deusx : Christian Cantrell: ActionScript Library for Amazon S3 - "I've been working on an Amazon S3 client in Apollo, and I finally got around to extracting the S3 library and making it its own project. I put it up on Google Code under the name as3awss3lib."
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18 month ago
deusx : Mike Chambers » Blog Archive » Apollo Beta will include SQLite Embedded Database - "Part of the announcement was that the upcoming beta of Apollo will also include SQLite to allow developers access to an embedded database for their applications."
jimray : Apollo Beta will include SQLite - And the Apollo data store will play nice with the Google Gears data store.
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20 month ago
deusx : Marc’s Voice » Blog Archive » Doesn’t anyone remember Grand Central? - "I’m confused. What is Grand Central? Is that Apollo alpha. A pre-cursor or just something everyone wants to forget about? Google remembers it - 611k mentions of it - in fact. Others panned it back then."
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20 month ago
deusx : Kevin Lynch: Apollo alpha - "With Apollo, you can leverage existing web development skills (HTML, Flash, JavaScript, Ajax, Flex) to build and deploy RIAs to the desktop. ... Apollo will enable anyone with basic web development skills to create a desktop application."
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36 month ago
jimray : Flash not combining with PDF after all? - "...we will continue delivering the Flash Player as a small, efficient runtime for content and applications on the web, and Adobe Reader for viewing and interacting with PDF documents and forms." Sounds like what they're really working on (HTML + SWF + PD
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36 month ago
jimray : Macromedia Apollo is the "universal client" - "Apollo is the codename for what Macromedia calls “The Universal Clientâ€, a browser-independent client that supports both HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) and Flash."
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36 month ago
jimray : Adobe completes acquisition of Macromedia - "Our long-term plan is to develop a 'universal client' by combining PDF, Flash and HTML in a single, integrated runtime." Crap. You know, when other companies try to be Microsoft, Microsoft wins.
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38 month ago
jimray : Announcing Macromedia Labs - Alpha testing for Macromedia
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38 month ago
jimray : ColdFusion now officially supported on the Mac - "As the OS X platform continues to gain traction in the industry, we are excited to see ColdFusion applications take advantage of the power on the OS X platform."
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44 month ago
Wayne Burkett : Daring Fireball: Translation From PR-Speak to Plain English of Selected Portions of Adobe's 'FAQ' Regarding Their Acquisition of Macromedia - Nice. #
jkottke : John Gruber's plain English version of the Adobe/Macromedia Acquisition FAQ - "Please also note that PDF is an excellent format for sending out resumes."
Anne van Kesteren : Translation From PR-Speak to English of Selected Portions of Adobe?s ?FAQ? Regarding Their Acquisition of Macromedia - Heh. #
Rod Begbie : Daring Fireball: Translation From PR-Speak to English of Selected Portions of Adobe's 'FAQ' Regarding Their Acquisition of Macromedia - "Please also note that PDF is an excellent format for sending out resumes." [via] #
Nelson Minar : PR translation - Hysterical read on the Adobe/Macromedia press release
deusx : Daring Fireball: Translation From PR-Speak to English of Selected Portions of Adobe's 'FAQ' Regarding Their Acquisition of Macromedia - "We didn?t buy Macromedia, we bought the market."
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44 month ago
deusx : ongoing · Adobe + Macromedia = ? - "Flash is a distraction." HERETIC!!! (*snicker*)
Anne van Kesteren : Adobe + Macromedia = ? - Hilarious! #
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44 month ago
deusx : Quasimondo - Mario Klingemann's Flash Blog: The End of Fireworks, Freehand and GoLive? - In comments: "I felt as if I was just told my grandmother died. Let's all have a moment of silence for Macromedia."
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44 month ago
deusx : Bad News: Adobe Acquires Macromedia : Joe Grossberg - "Synergy schmynergy; these integrated solutions from the acquisition are almost certainly going to result in (relative) stagnation. At least until someone can seriously compete with an $800 million (revenues) company." Ugh.
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44 month ago
jimray : Adobe to acquire Macromedia in $3.4 billion dollar deal - Since the two really haven't been competing in the same space for a while (does anyone use Fireworks? Did anyone use LiveMotion?), I'm not sure this is bad. Hopefully we'll just get some kickass software out of Macrodobemedia
Nelson Minar : Adobe + Macromedia - Wow, huge news (via Niall)
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44 month ago
Andy Baio : Adobe buys Macromedia! - all-stock buyout for $3.4 billion
jkottke : Whoa! Adobe to buy Macromedia?!!?!?! - Wow! ??!!?!??!! I don't think there's enough room in my MT database for all the question marks and exclamation points I want to use here.
Ethan Marcotte : Adobe buys Macromedia - Welcome to the world of the übercorp.
Jason Shellen : Adobe to acquire Macromedia - Congratulations to both sides. However, I'm calling the death of MM Fireworks at 06:00 hours on April 18th, 2005. #
kayodeok : Adobe acquires Macromedia - Adobe Systems Incorporated has announced a definitive agreement to acquire Macromedia (Nasdaq: MACR) in an all-stock transaction valued at approximately $3.4 billion
tehu : Adobe to acquire Macromedia - Why reinvent Flash when we can buy its owner ?
deusx : About Adobe - Adobe to acquire Macromedia - "Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq: ADBE) has announced a definitive agreement to acquire Macromedia (Nasdaq: MACR) in an all-stock transaction valued at approximately $3.4 billion." Holy crap.
Anne van Kesteren : Adobe and Macromedia - Some posts. Note that it is not 1 April. [via] #
Paul Hammond : About Adobe - Adobe to acquire Macromedia - The combination of Adobe and Macromedia strengthens our mission of helping people and organizations communicate better
Simon Willison : About Adobe - Adobe to acquire Macromedia - Whoa! There goes competition in the graphic design software sector. (via) [via]
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