UPS

I’m blogging while sitting in the longest fantasy football draft in history. It’s online which means you can’t really make fun of people because sarcasm just doesn’t carry over the net. You also can?t make them hurry up.

Anyway, I have a pet peeve. I ordered a book for our trip to West Virginia. We’re leaving on Friday so I had to order 2 day shipping on it. I placed the order yesterday and they gave a delivery date of tomorrow, which is fine. Except that on Tuesday, when I ordered it, my package flew from Nevada to Philadelphia. It got to Philly at 6:45 AM and instead of delivering it to my house today, they let it sit in Philadelphia. Why not just deliver it early? Is there no room on the truck? Do they not want me to get my book early? It makes no sense to me.

New MAX Classes for Flex and Zorn

I was doing some checking on the MAX website and saw that they’ve added TONS of new sessions. There really isn’t enough room in the schedule to take everything I want to. It looks like there are some great Zorn classes and also a couple of new Flex classes.

The one I really want to take is the Migrating Flex Applications for AS2 to Next Generation ActionScript but I didn’t see it on the schedule builder.

My Starbucks

I thought the Starbucks Oracle was some kind of super seer who can cut right through a person’s mind just by taking their drink order. I think it got Dan, Ciara sent me hers and it was also a bull?s-eye. Mine, not so much:

Personality type: Pseudo-intellectual

You’re liberal and consider yourself to be laid back and open minded. Everyone else just thinks you’re clueless. Your friends hate you because you always email them virus warnings and chain letters “just in case it’s true.” All people who drink Venti Iced Chai Latte are potheads.

Also drinks: Sparkling water
Can also be found at: Designer grocery stores

I fit parts of that, but I am definitely not liberal. I like to consider myself laid back, and everyone else probably does think I’m clueless. We’ll stop the description examination there. Perhaps I simply defy definition.

Just know that Chai Latte’s are not only for hippies.

Also this is my favorite:

You don’t go to Starbucks much; when you do you just tag along with other people since you have nothing better to do. You would like to order a Tazo Chai Crème but don’t know how to pronounce it. Most people who drink Mocha are strippers.

Using CFAOE for Flex Development

FlexBuilder finally pushed me over the edge today. I came in to work and it was sitting on the frozen blank screen which has become its daily ritual. Today I took action however, and I booted Flex Builder to the curve.

A while ago I had installed OxygenXML because I’d heard you could use it to work on MXML files pretty easily. It’s a simple configuration but when I had it downloaded I got caught up on some CF projects and never really got to try it out.

Today though, I redownloaded it, got a new trial license and I love it. Using the Flex .xsd file it give you code completion and you also have code coloring and the ability to break down the mxml files using typical XML tools.

If you haven’t yet, go over and grab the trial version of OxygenXML and give it a shot.

So now while the Flash developers have FAME (Flashout, ActionSript Development Tool, MTASC and Eclipse) Flex developers can have CFAOE (CFEclipse, ActionScript Development Tool, OxygenXML and Eclipse)

When Zorn comes it will be even more clever ? CFAZE.

I do realize it’s not exactly the same thing because OxygenXML costs money and isn’t open source, but hey, let’s not be picky.

Note: If you’re planning to comment, you’ll have to switch over to the main page and use that comment link. The comment links on the individual entry pages aren’t working and I haven’t found time to debug them yet.

I Hate Flex Builder

I think Flex Builder crashes every day. It just takes up resoures until there are none left. Like locust.

Zorn, when are you coming? Don’t make me suffer through Flex Builder anymore.

Eclipse has been running for 2 weeks on my computer. That’s two weeks straight, no crashes. I heart Eclipse.

Temporary Problem with Comments

For some reason my comments are broken if you’re looking at individual entry pages. We’re having guests this weekend which means I’ll be busy cleaning the apartment tonight but I’ll take a look at it when I’m finished. In the meantime, if you want to comment on something you can go over to the main page and comment from there.

If you want to comment on something in the archives then you’re out of luck sucker.

Macromedia and Adobe Shareholders Approve Merger

I guess it’s now all but official (pending regulatory approval), the Adobe and Macromedia shareholders voted in favor of the merger. I’m actually surprised by how high the yes vote was (99% of Adobe, 99.8% of Macromedia) but I think that’s a good sign that both companies? shareholders see the benefit to the merger.

When this whole deal came out I wasn’t sure how it would turn out. In my experience Macromedia’s developer community is second to none, and Adobe’s seemed stifling at times. But with things like Adobe Blogs it looks like Macromedia may be leading Adobe in the developer relations space.

Now I just hope we see a huge push for Flex and ColdFusion at the enterprise level that Adobe is so strong in.

Here’s an article from TheStreet.com about the process.

A Real Life Useless Blog Post

MXNA just picks up on my Technology feed, so I’m planning to blog a little bit more under the “personal” category. Janice talked about the Blogging Effect, and I realized that if you read my blog, you think I am a huge Macromedia nerd.

Unfortunately, that’s true. I am. But I don’t just sit around and program in my spare time (usually). I backpack, read, drink, watch way too much hockey, and hang out with my better half. Tonight, we watched the second part of Into The West.

I missed it when it was first on so I downloaded them and so far I’ve got the first two. It’s really kind of cheesy, but because I’m from Wyoming I’m all about the pioneer spirit. Plus I like to see the scenery because it reminds me of home.

See how exciting my life is.