DuroMedia

And now for something completely different....

So I work for a company the sells online marketing solutions to major brand advertisers. Part of my job is doing consulting for the sales team on things like required resources, timelines, and production budgets. Considering this, I'm always getting asked:

"How long will this project take?"

Day 2 here at Adobe MAX. I'm sitting here in the audience for the second Keynote, blogging live from the event. Ben Forta, Director of Platform Evangelism for Adobe, will be giving a talk titled "Design, Develop, Deploy." This session is meant to cover workflow between designers, developers and systems engineers in the creation of Rich Internet Applications.

It was just announced at the Adobe MAX Conference that the Thermo application that was previewed at MAX last year has now been retitled Catalyst.

A preview release copy will be give out later in the conference.

More info to follow....

The First General Conference at MAX did not disappoint. Tons of great info and announcements.

Read on to get an idea of what is coming from Adobe.

This years Adobe MAX Conference will be held in San Francisco from November 16th to the 19th. With it less than a week away, lets just say I'm getting pretty stoked. This will be my first time attending MAX, and my first time attending any webdev conference period.

In my search for a framework to implement the MVC pattern in my AS3 projects I found many complex solutions. These solutions seem to be very robust, and are probably good to explore for very large RIA projects. In my case, working in the fast paced world of online advertising, I needed a solution that was a little more basic and flexible.

So after a 5 year relationship with T-Mobile, I've broke it off. Why? Well why else, to get the new iPhone.

With a year left on my contract with T-Mobile, I was able to get out with no penalty, and pretty painlessly as well.

Everyone and their mother has a web hosting company that they rave about. I'm no different. I've had experience over the years with quite a few different hosting providers, and I have to say that one has consistently stood above the rest when it comes to service, support, price, and all around ass kickery.

I figure that credit is due where credit is earned. When it comes to Web Hosting, InMotion Hosting deserves a heaping boat load of credit.

I was scratching my head trying to figure out how to modify the month names that the Cake FormHelper used when generating it's select box. At first I just hacked the Core, but lately I have been making it a rule to never modify the Core. Thank God Cake was built with the flexibility to not have to.

My next idea was (suggested by mrConfused on the #cakephp irc channel) to extend the FormHelper with my own month() method. That just rubbed me the wrong way. Too much code duplication.

Enter Localization....

After nearly 3 months, DuroMedia v1.0 is launched.

This site started out as my first foray into the new world of CakePHP. Since starting this project I have spent far more time working with CakePHP on other projects, leaving this site on the back burner. Let me just say, I think I'm in love.