Cairngorm officially went open source a couple weeks ago, I started following the blog post by Alistair McLeod and Steven Webster when I heard the announcement.  A couple things are happening based on my readings, which I have linked at the bottom of the post (I suggest reading them in order). 

First off, this anouncement to me means that Cairngorm is not dead, it is very much alive and the Adobe Consulting team are working to come up with a strategy and execution plan to make it better with the help of the community (hence the open source piece).  I think this is great, it demonstrates Adobe's committment to the project. 

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I often pondered what would happen to Degrafa when Thermo hits the shelves, now it looks like Adobe has made a partnership with the Degrafa team and will initially adapt Degrafa's core graphics engine into Flex Graphics.  I think this is an awesome idea and will only improve the Flex community at large. 

You can read up on the full details here.

As the title suggest, this is a topic that I have been thinking about a lot lately.  I tend to be a jack of all trades, but in my case being a jack of all trades means that I never have the time to really get good at one thing.  For me this has become a serious problem that I plan on resolving soon.  I started looking at my life in general and I am this way across the board, not just at work.  I decided that I would try and figure out when I started to spread out and I narrowed it down to my Sophmore year in High School.

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I think I am a little behind here on the technology curve, but someone at Adobe showed me this the other day.  I heard that this project was in work, but I never actually took the time to go check it out myself.  So here it is, SearchMe.com a visual way to search the web.  Enjoy!  I am sure this technology will be bought by one of the big hitters eventually.  I love how they used Flex and repurposed the cover flow UI that Apple has so generously introduced in their products.

Reminds me of this statement:

The greatest revolutions come not by the discovery of something that was not known before.
They happen when someone radically changes something that was always there

In this example SearchMe took something like a search engine (already known) and totally redesigned its use, giving users a new experience to a common task such as searching for something on the web.  I like it, cant wait to see more experiences like this across the web. 

Anyone wondered why the iPhone doesnt have the flash player on it?  Something so simple, small and that has so many wide spread users?  It's simple... Apple doesnt want to have competing software on it's products.

Read this for yourself and please feel free to comment your thoughts/opinions.

http://www.roughlydrafted.com/2008/06/14/cocoa-for-windows-flash-killer-sproutcore/
http://www.macrumors.com/2008/06/16/apple-adopting-sproutcore-for-web-applications/

PS: The first link talks about the Flash player being Proprietary... does this guy know about the openflash that was announced? I guess not...