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I see you've stumbled on to my humble home on the net, Drive:Activated. My name's Sam, I'm an ambitious and driven uni student, residing in Melbourne, Australia, wanting to make my mark on our world. This is my site, which is mainly just my blog and some other bits. There's no definite theme to my blog, just anything that interests me, and currently that's web trends, startups, ideas and cool stuff. Check it out, leave me a comment, click on 'Who is this?' to find out more about me, or drop me a line by clicking on 'Let's Talk'. Hope you enjoy it!
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For the last few weeks I've been working on a project built with Adobe Flex on Adobe AIR . A quick rundown - Flex is Adobe's (well, Macromedia's really) solution to make building form-based apps in Flash (as opposed to animations) easier, and AIR is Adobe's way of expanding its influence...
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The whole thing about whether Flash should be open-sourced has come up again - Ryan Stewart's summarised it pretty well on his blog post . One argument for open-sourcing is that such an important platform (and it'll be getting more and more important ) should not be controlled by a single, commercial...
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I've always loved diagrammatic apps because I find them so much easier to dump and convey ideas, rather than in a rigid and boring Word doc. In particular, ever since I got introduced to MindManager at school (it was installed on our laptops) it's been one of my favourite apps for note taking (the others...
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http://www2.jeffcroft.com/blog/2006/dec/17/iso-funny-acronym-for-flash-revival/ After web devs have been putting up with 'web standards' being implemented slightly (or in some cases, grossly or not at all) different in the various web browsers out there, a combination of web bandwidth and computer performance...