Richard’s Corner

My New Project: Gamer Card for WordPress

I am currently working on a new WordPress plug-in that will display a user’s Xbox Live Gamer Card.  The Gamer Card itself is a Flex application, and the Xbox Live account data is retrieved using Duncan Mackenzie’s Xbox API. If you would like to see what I have developed so far, feel free to check it [...]

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Practice What You Preach Steve

Steve Jobs: We’ve been there before, and intermediate layers between the platform and the developer ultimately produces sub-standard apps and hinders the progress of the platform. *cough* iTunes on Windows *cough* How about practicing what you preach.  If it’s good enough for Apple’s efforts on Windows, it should be good enough for Flash and Flex developers who would [...]

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The Gloves Come Off

In case you haven’t heard, Apple released it’s new iPhone 4.0 SDK agreement.  Among the changes is wording that seems to ban the use of languages other than Objective-C to write iPhone applications. Adobe Platform Evangelist Lee Brimelow shares his opposition to this move by Apple: Now let me put aside my role as an official representative [...]

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Graph It! Re-Branded, Employment Graphs Added

On November 18, 2008, I released an application that allowed users to graph over 200 years of national debt data. People seemed to like it, so a few months ago, I decided to start working on a second application for graphing unemployment data.  I finished it pretty quickly, and I was ready to release it, but [...]

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