tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37914872008-05-01T14:08:32.062-04:00LordAlex Leon - Flash Platform Developer - Montreal, Quebec, CanadaLordAlex Leonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07078212780680450260noreply@blogger.comBlogger351125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3791487.post-5589729856506685292008-05-01T14:02:00.003-04:002008-05-01T14:08:21.308-04:00LordAlex Works: Only evaluating projects starting after June 5thJust a quick note,  LordAlex Works, currently is evaluating projects coming from *new* clients starting after June 5th, 2008.  Kind regards. +LALordAlex Leonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07078212780680450260noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3791487.post-60099186622888249012008-04-19T14:39:00.002-04:002008-04-19T14:52:21.483-04:00I will be attending FITC in Toronto 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! LordAlex Leonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07078212780680450260noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3791487.post-20587968092375212582008-04-17T15:39:00.008-04:002008-04-19T14:37:40.136-04:00LordAlex Works - Helped on the critical mission to launch the new Canadian Army Website (forces.ca) 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 LordAlex Leonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07078212780680450260noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3791487.post-53977181412974321362008-03-13T09:53:00.003-04:002008-03-13T11:20:57.218-04:00Speaking at the 2008 PHP Quebec Conference 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 LordAlex Leonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07078212780680450260noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3791487.post-50598534690598941592008-02-25T08:17:00.004-05:002008-02-25T08:44:48.760-05:00Flex 3 and AIR 1.0 are out! 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 LordAlex Leonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07078212780680450260noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3791487.post-4046481997356324722008-02-11T09:57:00.000-05:002008-02-11T10:06:15.204-05:00Yahoo! Maps AS3 Component -go get it! 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 LordAlex Leonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07078212780680450260noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3791487.post-4293162713745162912008-02-06T15:03:00.000-05:002008-02-06T15:19:16.234-05:00Adobe Flex and Adobe AIR Pre-Release Tour in Montreal (Update)Hello 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. KindLordAlex Leonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07078212780680450260noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3791487.post-3623776461064900782008-02-06T00:06:00.000-05:002008-02-06T00:30:08.380-05:00Flex and AIR Pre-release Tour with Adobe’s Mike Potter (Montreal February 7th, 2008) 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 LordAlex Leonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07078212780680450260noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3791487.post-62453209850434894422008-01-22T12:44:00.000-05:002008-01-22T12:56:50.355-05:00Happy Birthday to me! Turning 32 today.Turning 32 today. Woohoo! LordAlex Leonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07078212780680450260noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3791487.post-80975182623453366792008-01-19T23:10:00.001-05:002008-01-19T23:17:43.971-05:00Videotron killing the fun on youtube and other streaming services 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 actuallyLordAlex Leonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07078212780680450260noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3791487.post-87079230516776097822008-01-14T16:03:00.000-05:002008-01-14T16:05:18.222-05:00Flex and AIR Pre-release Tour with Adobe’s Mike Potter (Montreal February 7th, 2008)Flex 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 LordAlex Leonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07078212780680450260noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3791487.post-76463413438645272832008-01-10T19:21:00.000-05:002008-01-10T19:23:36.570-05:00Flex and AIR User Group Pre-release TourFlex 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 LordAlex Leonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07078212780680450260noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3791487.post-18988550284903670222007-12-24T15:52:00.000-05:002007-12-24T15:56:12.423-05:00Happy Holidays! Just wanted to take a moment to to wish everyone a happy holidays, all the best for you and your families! LordAlex Leon.LordAlex Leonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07078212780680450260noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3791487.post-38056289278714290952007-12-22T14:02:00.000-05:002007-12-22T14:22:35.641-05:00How to watch videos from hulu.com outside of the USA 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 theLordAlex Leonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07078212780680450260noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3791487.post-55794046402684020982007-12-21T00:17:00.000-05:002007-12-21T00:21:34.507-05:00Flash Player 9 UB 1008:5,-5000 Access denied errorFlash 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. +LALordAlex Leonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07078212780680450260noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3791487.post-2296489449885974422007-12-20T17:17:00.000-05:002007-12-20T17:38:42.712-05:00Creating my own Adobe CS3 stack dock folder icon 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 LordAlex Leonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07078212780680450260noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3791487.post-36612947922009468632007-12-20T02:28:00.000-05:002007-12-20T02:39:44.637-05:00The second pre-release of Adobe Media Player is out. 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 LordAlex Leonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07078212780680450260noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3791487.post-5100845148901116642007-12-14T09:58:00.000-05:002007-12-14T10:30:10.877-05:00Yahoo Creates it's own Flex Component Skin 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 LordAlex Leonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07078212780680450260noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3791487.post-52201519815989378502007-12-14T09:45:00.000-05:002007-12-14T09:50:08.881-05:00Flex Beta 3 Released - And More Good News Flex 3 Beta 3 has been released among other things, here is a quick article I wanted to echo via The Flex Team.   +LA LordAlex Leonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07078212780680450260noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3791487.post-31987813852789673712007-12-13T10:20:00.000-05:002007-12-13T10:23:01.461-05:00More on Adobe Thermo (Presentation Recording)I 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.+LALordAlex Leonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07078212780680450260noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3791487.post-31409723655284248632007-12-07T13:10:00.000-05:002007-12-12T01:27:24.724-05:00Looking for a great designer with experience creating blogs..I 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.+LALordAlex Leonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07078212780680450260noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3791487.post-58305018969610875642007-12-07T02:18:00.000-05:002007-12-12T01:29:03.354-05:00Adobe.com website redesigned.Adobe.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 LordAlex Leonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07078212780680450260noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3791487.post-11073120635054614092007-12-05T14:22:00.001-05:002007-12-05T14:26:13.599-05:00Next Montreal Adobe User Group Meeting on December 18.Hello 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. +LALordAlex Leonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07078212780680450260noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3791487.post-8742541054799058092007-12-04T20:37:00.000-05:002007-12-04T20:40:49.490-05:00Downtime and broken linksHello fellow readers and friends, I will be moving my blog to a new server shortly and I will be doing a massive cleanup as well of files, is hard to believe it's been 5 years blogging. So, I apologize in advanced for any broken links you might find in the next few days. Kind regards. +LALordAlex Leonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07078212780680450260noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3791487.post-78809134479006399962007-11-29T11:16:00.001-05:002007-11-29T11:17:57.481-05:00The Montreal Adobe User Group has a Facebook Page, join us!The Montreal Adobe User Group has a Facebook Page, join us! http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=5931269332 Cheers! +LALordAlex Leonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07078212780680450260noreply@blogger.com