John C. Bland II

Bogus Antennagate Response Videos

John C. Bland II — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 15:46:15 +0000

I’m overly bored with antennagate to start with but these response videos are annoying me. Yes, I could not watch them but the tech dude deep inside, well…maybe not that deep, is interested in the technology aspect of it. What annoys me is when someone shows the now infamous “death grip” but they are showing [...]

Why Android blows away the iOS, for me.

John C. Bland II — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 01:58:52 +0000

I have contemplated this blog post for a couple weeks now (and worked on it for longer), since I first started using my new Evo 4G. The title may read that of a new convert going fanboy over a new toy but trust me…I’ve seriously spent time considering both sides of this coin and I’m [...]

AS3 Tip: Pass …rest arguments w/ other arguments to a function

John C. Bland II — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 23:25:15 +0000

That’s about as good a title as I could come up with here. Background Let’s say you have a function expecting …rest arguments. Firstly, if you’re not familiar with …rest arguments, read this. Here is a code example of the issue (hand-written and untested): protected function fun1(...rest):void{ fun2.apply(null, rest); } protected function fun2(some:*, thing:*, [...]

Every web developer is now a mobile developer

John C. Bland II — Mon, 03 May 2010 14:47:46 +0000

Ok…maybe it isn’t 1:1 in terms of skills/knowledge but consider the age of today. 5 years ago mobile stylesheets were the rave and were dang near required for every mobile device out there. Now? Nope. With Webkit running rampit on smartphones and smartphones becoming the normal end user phone, with the surge of iPhone and [...]

Proof, meet Pudding. #stevejobs

John C. Bland II — Mon, 03 May 2010 04:35:19 +0000

Just a quick note here. The videos speak for themselves. They prove the marketing wheel is a big beast and people flock to what is believed to be true vs what is true, reference to Seth Godin’s book as enlightened by @simpulton. Think for yourselves people! Steve Jobs HTML5 web experience on the iPad - [...]

Fanboy I’m not

John C. Bland II — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 16:25:38 +0000

I’ll shelve off ranting about anything for now. There are a couple points I want to make then I’m out. I’m pretty much known as a Flash developer. That’s a fair synopsis of the majority of my work. This means, I’m closely tied to the success of Flash, right? WRONG! That couldn’t be further from [...]

Flex 4 Release Party Preso Recap

John C. Bland II — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 15:54:52 +0000

Last night I spoke at the AZFPUG and AZCFUG Flex 4 Release party. I am thoroughly happy I did! What fun it is talking about something you’re passionate about and Flex 4 is definitely something I thoroughly enjoy working in and talking about. With that said, most of what I talked about was pulled directly [...]

Preso on 4/28/2010: Flex’ing in Phoenix! #azfpug

John C. Bland II — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 08:29:04 +0000

This is going to be a huge treat for me. I’m flying to AZ for the first time since I left AZ for TX to attendee speak at the Arizona Flash Platform Users Group April 2010 meeting, their official Flex 4 release meeting. Since I’m friends with the majority of the group, I’ll be pretty informal [...]

Testing @Anywhere

John C. Bland II — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 21:50:07 +0000

Twitter just launched @Anywhere and I’m testing to see if it works. @johncblandii @katapultmedia @shadowtactics All of these twitter id’s should now show you a hover box with stats and a follow button. Let me know how it works for you.

iPhone Packager apps are blocked…what next? #331rally?

John C. Bland II — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 04:45:51 +0000

Aight…Apple’s turned in 3.3.1 and I’ve accepted it. What next? Adobe has publicly stated they are not removing the iPhone Packager from Flash CS5. This means people will still see the feature. It means they will use the feature. It means apps might still get pushed to the App Store. The big question for those [...]