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[Rant] Doesn’t look like a year for Flash

Looks like the dark age for Flash this year. Why? Even the update page doesn’t seem to look that friendly anymore, it’s all…red…harsh…warning…danger, almost every thing that is dangerous and malicious is associated to ActiveX is now almost to Flash. FUUUUUUUUUU

[Rant] Travel-ous year

Taken with limited edition DCD Blackbird (Pink) at Penang’s Kek Lok Si Temple?

Taken with Fisheye 2 at Beijing.

Seems like a year where I can’t really sit still in a month.

• Beijing, China (April 2010)
  
• Genting Highlands, Malaysia (April 2010)
• Hatyai, Thailand (May 2010)
• Laos (May 2010)
• Kijal, Terengganu, Malaysia (May 2010)
• Marina Bay Sands, Singapore (May 2010)
  
• Genting Highlands, Malaysia (upcoming)
• Cameron Highlands, Malaysia
• Cambodia
• Macau, China(?)

Strike-through items denote visited place. I’m grateful and thank everyone I know for these opportunities.

[Rant] What I really feel

About the recent lashes between Apple & Adobe, from a flash designer/developer perspective.

Update: Also uploaded it to twitpic as well. http://twitpic.com/1fykh9
Update: Colored the comic. Yay!

Roundup from an angry Flash-o-sphere morning

This news literally woke me up from my bed at 8 A.M. Well it might be much of an issue for existing developer but it’s certainly did hit every Flash developer’s crotch hard. Enjoy reading the thoughts and shouts below.

Credits for the pic

• Peter Elst – This time it’s personal
• Cult of Mac – New App Store Dev Agreement Kills Adobe’s Flash-to-iPhone Compiler
• Kevin Suttle – Apple Reaffirms Control Issues with iPhone 4
• Daring Fireball – New iPhone Developer Agreement Bans the Use of Adobe’s Flash-to-iPhone Compiler
• RT @JosephLabrecque: RT @jesterxl: RT @Adobe Flashpacolypse; we’re looking into it.
• @Adobe “We are looking into the new SDK language. We continue to develop Packager for iPhone OS which will debut in Flash CS5.”
• RT @driftlab_scott: RT @wefail: Apple ban apps compiled from Flash CS5? What a kick in the balls. http://bit.ly/cjwkQI (via #kerin)
• @gskinner ..I wonder how they define “written”? Could tools emit ObjC/C++ source, which the developer could compile in XCode?
• @gskinner “Applications must be originally written in Objective-C, C, C++, or JavaScript as executed by the iPhone OS WebKit engine
• RT @jesterxl Positive Note: Flash CS5 is now illegal, even if you pay for it!
• Jobs’ latest act of villainy has less to do with Adobe than Gruber thinks.
• Apple makes its own compiler… illegal!
• Steve Jobs responds directly to developer over new iPhone SDK rules, cites blog for explanation
• Steve Jobs Responds To Developer Agreement Concerns

On a brighter side, let’s see what people think of OS4

• Cult of Mac – iPhone OS 4.0 First Look: It’s Slick, Fast and Multitasking Is Great “Very nice!!!!! Thank you apple!!”
• RT @markbonafide: iPhone OS 4.0 First Look: It’s Slick, Fast and Multitasking Is Great http://bit.ly/dyiFpu #apple /via @macTweeter – DIBS!

The aftermath, after a day of the disaster:

• Daring Fireball – Why Apple Changed Section 3.3.1
• CS5 Countdown – “We intend to still deliver this capability in CS5’
• Grant Skinner – Return of the Blue Lego
• Letter to Steve Jobs
• Sorry, Adobe, you screwed yourself

Update 10th April – Added more response from the interwebs.
Update 10th April – Added an aftermath responses.
Update 12th April – More responses from the interweb.

[Photography] Massive balloon of FAIL

If anyone of you did went to the Malaysia Hot Air Balloon Festival this year, I’m pretty sure that you shared the same sentiment as mine, especially if you are a first timer there. Call it a ranting post, but nothing can describe the utter-FAIL of this event compared to what I have seen in the previous year. A big F word to the organizer thank you.

First of all, the site itself, My Balloon Fiesta cease to work on the event date, which makes a lot of people having trouble to locate the exact venue. In turn, the archived page did help us to navigate poorly to the designated venue.

Located in Precinct 2, Putrajaya, Malaysia. The traffic was heavy and poorly managed from the entrance towards the exit, cars are parked virtually anywhere the tyres can roll. I really mean it, some even parked on top of the divider that you never expect a sedan can go through.

So with all the troubles of getting to the exact event itself, you only found to be sandwiched by a bunch of people with massive lenses and cameras and what-so-ever.

This and that

And of course there’s a lot of journal photographer.

Well, I left the place not long after 30 minutes of arrival only to know that there’s only several variation of hot air balloon designs. Probably the most unique one was the Levi’s – Jeans-alike-shaped balloon, from what I heard.