25Feb Flex 3, BlazeDS & AIR 1.0 are out!
Finally, the combination for RIA goodness is upon us. Adobe, through the combined efforts of the Flex, AIR and BlazeDS teams has launched these three products aimed to making the life of web developers a bit easier, and the life of the web user a lot easier. You can check out the products on the adobe.com website, where you can also download a trial version (for Flex Builder) or the full versions of the Flex 3 SDK, AIR SDK and BlazeDS.
Now it’s time to see how the web experience shapes up - I’m looking forward to ever-increasing levels of interactivity on the web, and a nice blend between the web and the desktop (which AIR aims to increase).
Here are some stories on Digg, on the same topic, here, here and here.
18Feb OpenID’d
Just got the bug up and running using OpenID - or so I hope - the plugin threw a warning, but seems to work ok … So if you have an OpenID account you can now use it to register or post a comment. The good side - you’re comment will get through moderation (I hope).
So, let’s see how much fun this will be and how long it takes for OpenID to really take off and get some major social websites on it.
Oh, I’m using WP-openid (search for it, the link is out of reach).
SideNote: My laptop is freaking me out tonight, it keeps pausing to do stuff with my hard-drive …. if it keeps it up it will end up in a corner of the room.
09Feb Going home
This week has been intense. I’ve seen lots of opinions and overall learned a lot. And even though San Jose is not the same as San Francisco, I found something to do 
Although I tried to take more photos, as I said in a previous post, I just didn’t had the time. I even missed visiting the San Jose Tech Museum, but next time I’ll do it at all costs. Now I’m waiting for the checkout and a short ride to the airport. Then 13 hours to Paris, 4 hours between flights and another 3 hours to Bucharest. Luckily I have several devices with enough battery power to last me the trip.
The next post will be from my couch (or office ). It’s nice going home.
P.S. I will upload what pictures I have when I get home, since the net connection here is … let’s say slow
Update: finally, after about two weeks I’ve managed to get everything up on Flickr (they have a 200 photos limit for free accounts 
). Some of these images were taken by Cataling, but I accidentally mixed them all together and don’t know which are which. Hope he won’t bite my head off.
03Feb In US
Right now I’m sitting inside Adobe’s San Jose caffeteria. For a week I will be in San Jose instead of Bucharest, attending some meetings, conferences and other similar stuff. I’ll also try to visit and take a ton of pictures. So for now articles will appear at a completly different time
I will update this post with pictures as soon as I upload them to an online service.
31Jan I’ve freed my iPhone
One thing I hated on the iPhone - not having the option to copy music from two different computers onto it without losing everything. But no more!
Some background information: I use a laptop for work and also have about 3 other computers at home. On the home PC’s I have the bulk of my music, and on my laptop my contacts, calendar, podcasts. Once I’ve synced my contacts with the laptop, I can’t put music from the home pc on it.
Apparently this has ended with an update to iTunes 7.6 - a new checkbox appeared on the sync music tab - Manually manage my music. From what I tried it seems that I still need iTunes installed (unless a tool like vPod will appear / works already) but instead of syncing I can drag a file from my desktop over the iPhone icon and it will add it to its library. Which means I can put music from any pother computer that has iTunes (at least in theory). I’ll try it later and update this post with how good it works.