tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3791487Sat, 21 Jun 2008 06:50:59 +0000http://www.lordalex.org/index.phpnoreply@blogger.com (LordAlex Leon)Blogger353125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3791487.post-6369479084305014513Fri, 20 Jun 2008 17:29:00 +00002008-06-20T14:13:27.283-04:00I recently made the decision of shortening my work week to 4 days. Working 4 days a week (8.75 hour a day) and then my weekend starts on friday. After experiencing a near burn out I realized in our field we are encouraged to push ourselves to the limit, if you are tired drink a red bull or any other energy drink is the motto and keep going until wee hours in the morning. Just about 3 weeks ago http://www.lordalex.org/2008/06/enjoying-4-days-work-week.phpnoreply@blogger.com (LordAlex Leon)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3791487.post-8377075374898496061Mon, 16 Jun 2008 17:35:00 +00002008-06-20T13:23:25.306-04:00 I have two Mighty Mouse's and both the track ball in the center stopped working after a few months of use. I tried a few ways to clean them up but, no joy. So I decided to go ahead and crack the Mouse open and clean it manually. The process is relatively simple, one just have to be patient and careful handling it. There are a lot of tutorials out there on how to do it, but essentially with http://www.lordalex.org/2008/06/fixing-apple-mighty-mouse-track-ball.phpnoreply@blogger.com (LordAlex Leon)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3791487.post-558972985650668529Thu, 01 May 2008 18:02:00 +00002008-05-01T14:08:21.308-04:00Just a quick note,  LordAlex Works, currently is evaluating projects coming from *new* clients starting after June 5th, 2008.  Kind regards. +LAhttp://www.lordalex.org/2008/05/lordalex-works-only-taking-projects.phpnoreply@blogger.com (LordAlex Leon)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3791487.post-6009918662288824901Sat, 19 Apr 2008 18:39:00 +00002008-04-19T14:52:21.483-04:00 On the nick of time, I managed to arranged things so I could at least attend FITC in Toronto. I will be arriving Sunday Morning. Is been crazy busy lately, we have a few projects on the grill and I am still adjusting to the changes of joining the club of fatherhood. See you all there! http://www.lordalex.org/2008/04/i-will-be-attending-fitc-in-toronto.phpnoreply@blogger.com (LordAlex Leon)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3791487.post-2058796809237521258Thu, 17 Apr 2008 19:39:00 +00002008-04-19T14:37:40.136-04:00 We got an unexpected called about a week ago from the Canadian Forces to help with the launch of the new Canadian Army website. The site was developed by a very talented in house team and the collaboration of 2 other design firms. The situation got a little critical as a number of unexpected issues started to arise near the launching of the website. It is worth mentioning the site is built http://www.lordalex.org/2008/04/lordalex-works-helped-on-critical.phpnoreply@blogger.com (LordAlex Leon)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3791487.post-5397718141297432136Thu, 13 Mar 2008 13:53:00 +00002008-03-13T11:20:57.218-04:00 I will be speaking at the 2008 PHP Quebec Conference tomorrow Friday at 8:30 AM replacing Mike Potter whom for circumstances beyond his control cannot make it. The subject is: Realizing the Full Potential of Your Rich Internet Applications. I will try to fit on MIke's shoes to be best of my ability and I hear the PHP Community is a fun crowd, so I am very excited about this opportunity to share http://www.lordalex.org/2008/03/speaking-at-2008-php-quebec-conference.phpnoreply@blogger.com (LordAlex Leon)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3791487.post-5059853469059894159Mon, 25 Feb 2008 13:17:00 +00002008-02-25T08:44:48.760-05:00 Flex 3 and AIR 1.0 are now available for download. One can upgrade to the standard version for only 99$ or get the PRO version with charting and testing tools for $299 I recommend the PRO version only for the memory profilers tools in the long run is better investement. Among other things these are the improvements over version 2: Full support for Adobe AIR makes it easy to create RIAs for the http://www.lordalex.org/2008/02/flex-3-and-air-10-are-out.phpnoreply@blogger.com (LordAlex Leon)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3791487.post-404648199735632472Mon, 11 Feb 2008 14:57:00 +00002008-02-11T10:06:15.204-05:00 The all-new Yahoo! Maps component for Flex 3 enables you to add a map to a wide-range of web and desktop applications. Included in the API is support for other Yahoo! APIs including the geocoder, local search and traffic APIs along with an advanced marker and overlay manager to allow you to easily represent data on the map.Using the YahooMap component in your Flash, Flex, Ajax or AIR projects http://www.lordalex.org/2008/02/yahoo-maps-as3-component-go-get-it.phpnoreply@blogger.com (LordAlex Leon)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3791487.post-429316271374516291Wed, 06 Feb 2008 20:03:00 +00002008-02-06T15:19:16.234-05:00Hello folks, unfortunately for reasons beyond his control Mike Potter won't be able to make it to Montreal, so Adobe has kindly ask me to replace him tomorrow. Mike has sent me his presentation files and I will replace him tomorrow, other than that the schedule stay the same. Mike Potter has expressed his sincere apologies and perhaps we will have him some other time soon. See you all there. Kindhttp://www.lordalex.org/2008/02/adobe-flex-and-adobe-air-pre-release.phpnoreply@blogger.com (LordAlex Leon)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3791487.post-362377646106490078Wed, 06 Feb 2008 05:06:00 +00002008-02-06T00:30:08.380-05:00 Mike Potter will be in Montreal this Thursday February 7th, 2008 as part of the Adobe Flex and AIR Pre-release Tour. This is a "NOT TO MISS" event. I am very excited about this meeting and as usual the raffles at our UG has been spectacular, everyone has been walking away with real good stuff.  This time around we are not falling behind, for this meeting we will have some awesome giveaways http://www.lordalex.org/2008/02/flex-and-air-pre-release-tour-with.phpnoreply@blogger.com (LordAlex Leon)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3791487.post-6245320985043489442Tue, 22 Jan 2008 17:44:00 +00002008-01-22T12:56:50.355-05:00Turning 32 today. Woohoo! http://www.lordalex.org/2008/01/happy-birthday-to-me-turning-32-today.phpnoreply@blogger.com (LordAlex Leon)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3791487.post-8097518262345336679Sun, 20 Jan 2008 04:10:00 +00002008-01-19T23:17:43.971-05:00 Now when we finally have the technology (like flash video) and bandwidth enough to get decent video/audio quality over the internet and are even experiencing the birth of DRM free content, you may think the convergence of TV and Internet are finally here and is unstoppable. Well think again, companies like Videotron, and similar telcos in Canada and the US have different plans that may actuallyhttp://www.lordalex.org/2008/01/video-killing-fun-on-youtube-and-other.phpnoreply@blogger.com (LordAlex Leon)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3791487.post-8707923051677609782Mon, 14 Jan 2008 21:03:00 +00002008-01-14T16:05:18.222-05:00Flex 3 and AIR are getting close to launch and in preparation, Mike Potter from the Adobe Flex/AIR product team is traveling to select cities to show off the great new features and help prepare us for this exciting launch. Flex 3 is a feature-packed release, adding new UI components like the advanced datagrid and improved CSS capabilities; powerful tooling additions like refactoring; and http://www.lordalex.org/2008/01/flex-and-air-pre-release-tour-with.phpnoreply@blogger.com (LordAlex Leon)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3791487.post-7646341343864527283Fri, 11 Jan 2008 00:21:00 +00002008-01-10T19:23:36.570-05:00Flex 3 and AIR are getting close to launch and in preparation, the Adobe Platform Evangelist team is traveling to select cities to show off the great new features and some brand new demos. Flex 3 is a feature-packed release, adding new UI components like the advanced datagrid and improved CSS capabilities; powerful tooling additions like refactoring; and extensive testing tools including memory http://www.lordalex.org/2008/01/flex-and-air-user-group-pre-release.phpnoreply@blogger.com (LordAlex Leon)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3791487.post-1898855028490367022Mon, 24 Dec 2007 20:52:00 +00002007-12-24T15:56:12.423-05:00 Just wanted to take a moment to to wish everyone a happy holidays, all the best for you and your families! LordAlex Leon.http://www.lordalex.org/2007/12/happy-holidays.phpnoreply@blogger.com (LordAlex Leon)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3791487.post-3805628927871429095Sat, 22 Dec 2007 19:02:00 +00002007-12-22T14:22:35.641-05:00 This is not exactly Flash related, but I thought it might be cool to let a little trick out, as to how to watch videos from hulu.com outside of the USA. The simplest way I found was to download an utility called Hotspot Shield from AnchorFree, this tool creates a virtual private network (VPN) between your laptop and your router, the software (while running) inserts a banner to all pages at thehttp://www.lordalex.org/2007/12/how-to-watch-videos-form-hulucom.phpnoreply@blogger.com (LordAlex Leon)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3791487.post-5579404640268402098Fri, 21 Dec 2007 05:17:00 +00002007-12-21T00:21:34.507-05:00Flash playerFlash Player 9 UB 1008:5,-5000 Access denied error If you get this error while installing the Player or during the installation of Flex 3 Beta 3, on Mac OSX Leopard, verify if you have Firefox installed. If you do, uninstall it, then re-install it again and try to run the Player install again, it should work this time. I don't know why this works, but it does... Cheers. +LAhttp://www.lordalex.org/2007/12/flash-player-9-ub-10085-5000-access.phpnoreply@blogger.com (LordAlex Leon)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3791487.post-229648944988597442Thu, 20 Dec 2007 22:17:00 +00002007-12-20T17:38:42.712-05:00 I installed the Adobe CS3 Master collection and I quickly realized my Application folder became a little crowded. So I decided to have all Adobe apps wrapped in one folder to narrow things downs and I set to look for a way to create a Stack folder for all CS3 apps to make things even easier.  I created a new folder under Application and named it Adobe CS3 then with the help of this little http://www.lordalex.org/2007/12/creating-my-own-cs3-dock-icon.phpnoreply@blogger.com (LordAlex Leon)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3791487.post-3661294792200946863Thu, 20 Dec 2007 07:28:00 +00002007-12-20T02:39:44.637-05:00Adobe Adobe just released it's second pre-release of Media Player. Here is the list of new feature on this release:H.264 and HE-AAC support—view high-quality video encoded with the H.264 video and HE-AAC audio codecs.Hardware accelerated full screen support—play back full-screen videos with improved performance on Windows® and Macintosh® computers.More control over your viewing experience—new video http://www.lordalex.org/2007/12/adobe-just-released-its-second-pre.phpnoreply@blogger.com (LordAlex Leon)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3791487.post-510084514890111664Fri, 14 Dec 2007 14:58:00 +00002007-12-14T10:30:10.877-05:00 The Flash UI Gurus at Yahoo decided to create their own Flex components skin, as they considered the default component skin to be a little too utilitarian, laking a little visual appeal and shiny disposition.  Well, they decided to take matters in their own hands and created a spanking new Flex component skin, that looks great I might add. In my opinion halo (default flex theme) still looks http://www.lordalex.org/2007/12/yahoo-creates-its-own-flex-component.phpnoreply@blogger.com (LordAlex Leon)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3791487.post-5220151981598937850Fri, 14 Dec 2007 14:45:00 +00002007-12-14T09:50:08.881-05:00Flex Flex 3 Beta 3 has been released among other things, here is a quick article I wanted to echo via The Flex Team.   +LA http://www.lordalex.org/2007/12/flex-beta-3-released-and-more-good-news.phpnoreply@blogger.com (LordAlex Leon)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3791487.post-3198781385278967371Thu, 13 Dec 2007 15:20:00 +00002007-12-13T10:23:01.461-05:00I know since we heard about Adobe Thermo everyone is very excited about this new product, I think it will definitely change the face of Flex in the near future. Here is a recording that talks a little more about it, for those of you interested. https://admin.adobe.acrobat.com/_a300965365/p12022133/ Cheers.+LAhttp://www.lordalex.org/2007/12/more-on-adobe-thermo-presentation.phpnoreply@blogger.com (LordAlex Leon)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3791487.post-3140972365528424863Fri, 07 Dec 2007 18:10:00 +00002007-12-12T01:27:24.724-05:00jobsI am looking for a great designer, that has experience creating blogs, most importantly under blogger. If you are such a person, please contact me at jobs2007@lordalexworks.com Kind regards.+LAhttp://www.lordalex.org/2007/12/looking-for-great-designer-with.phpnoreply@blogger.com (LordAlex Leon)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3791487.post-5830501896961087564Fri, 07 Dec 2007 07:18:00 +00002007-12-12T01:29:03.354-05:00AdobeAdobe.com has been significantly redesigned focusing on content and a lot less in UI. The first change you will notice is the redesign navigation bar which is not longer a beveled 3-d looking bar. Among other things, the site makes better use of new and now popular wide screens monitors. I believe is a step in the right direction, I've been really impressed by the relentless effort on behave of http://www.lordalex.org/2007/12/adobecom-website-redesigned.phpnoreply@blogger.com (LordAlex Leon)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3791487.post-1107312063505461409Wed, 05 Dec 2007 19:22:00 +00002007-12-05T14:26:13.599-05:00Hello friends, For those of you in Montreal, I just wanted to announce our next Montreal Adobe User Group meeting taking place on December 18. For more details click here Make sure to register as explained in the information page, to make sure you are included in the raffles, we have some awesome giveaways for this one! See you all there. +LAhttp://www.lordalex.org/2007/12/next-montreal-adobe-user-group-meeting.phpnoreply@blogger.com (LordAlex Leon)