Jesse Ezell Blog

David Mendels gave some great feedback:

Thanks to Mike Chambers for pointing me to this:

There is a ton of hype going around about how Flash 8 is really going to revolutionize the web. This is just nonsense. Don't get me wrong, the new version of Flash is extremely cool and exciting when it comes to visual effects. The new version of Flash has some really amazing things--like support for real-time filters and VP6 video--but, once again, Macromedia has almost completely ignored developers with the latest Flash release. As I have said in the past, Macromedia is a very designer centric company. They have a great tool with a ton of potential; however, until they realize that developers make the applications people use, not designers, Flash is going to continue to be used soley for banner ads and frilly web sites. It really amazes me that after the big push with Central to get Flash on the desktop and the big push with Flex to get developers using Flash, Macromedia is still failing to give developers what they need to be successful. Here are some questions I have for Macromedia:

Ite's been a while since I posted some amazingly useful, but insanely impossible to find code for you. But, I am still alive and kicking and working on all sorts of interesting projects, so it was only a matter of time until I ran into another Microsoft oversight that needed a workaround. If you have ever tried to implement a progress bar with WSE 2.0 in your application, it probably wasn't a fun experience. In fact, if you were using something like DIME, you probably gave up. Yes, theoretically, there are ways to use the DimeReader / DimeWriter to do the task, but that requires a lot of extra work and doesn't fit nearly as nice and neat into the framework as the auto-generated WSE classes that you are used to. Personally, I like using the WSE auto-generated code, but I was amazed to discover that there is absolutely no way built-in for you to obtain progress information while a large DIME message is being streamed to the server. What is worse is that due to the way that WSE was built, you cannot even plug into WSE to provide this functionality yourself... well, at least that is what everyone was saying. But, as is often said, "Where there is a will, there is a way." Today, ladies and gentlemen, I present you with the way.

First Microsoft decides to use PowerPC chips, then Apple decides to use Intel. These are definately strange times.

You don't want to miss this one, its definately one of the coolest apps coming out in the near future.

It is pretty clear from the acquisition that Adobe is going to be making a major push into web media. They have tried a few times with tools like InDesign and LiveMotion to make some progress, but Macromedia has been extremely successful at fending off their attacks with Dreamweaver and Flash. As a result, Adobe has been able to rule the desktop publishing market and Macromedia has been able to rule the web content market. The mix of the two companies is going to make one hell of a powerful media creation beast. Ok, but that is the obvious stuff. Obviously anyone who buys out Macromedia wants Flash, because Flash is what Macromedia is all about. What else might this mean?

Very interesting news: