After playing with Pivot, I have been really existed by the possibilities that Pivot offers.
”Pivot makes it easier to interact with massive amounts of data in ways that are powerful, informative, and fun.”
Simply speaking, Pivot is a tool that helps us visually browse collections of information.

Figure 1: Item view in Pivot while browsing the mathematics [...]

A very good news for all AIR developer or for all people hesitating to use AIR for future applications. AIR is bundled in Acrobat Reader 9 (released yesterday), as Acrobat Reader is still one of the most downloaded software of Adobe [it is my assumption, I couldn't find any stats :(] it will certainly help [...]

Shari Thurow, the Founder and SEO Director of Omni Marketing Interactive wrote a very interesting answer in led-digest.com about the solution I blogged a while ago: ‘Holy Grail: SEO Model for Flash and Flex Content‘.
Here are a few quotes of her, with my answer below:
[...]as long as you are giving search engines one version of [...]

Recently Digg made an official adoption of RDFa (a set of extensions to XHTML being proposed by the W3C). While watching a tutorial about RDFa (below video) I asked myself how it could be possible to do it for Flash/ Flex document.

In fact bringing RDFa to a SWF itself is not possible, as I [...]

The discussion about SEO (search engines optimization) and SWF content(from Flash or Flex) has been long and turbulent.
Fortunately this discussion is coming to an end as now a proven solution exists. I made yesterday a presentation about it at the Adobe User Group of Geneva.
Here is the solution I prefer: using XSL (eXtensible Stylesheet Language) [...]

During our next event at the Adobe User Group of Geneva I will make an introduction to SEO strategies and the best practice to extend them to SWF powered content. This presentation could also be named SEO for Rich Internet Application. As it is just an introduction I’ll try to make it in 30 minutes [...]

That is a big news! The Flex Builder 3 Professional is now free for all students and edu customer:
Adobe Flex Builder 3 Pro is available for free to all education customers. This includes all students, faculty and staff of eligible education institutions.
www.flexregistration.com
Wondering why you finished your study so early?
:)
Ahmet

The Acid test suite checking the browser compliance with certain web standards.
Since April 2007, the version #3 of the Acid Test is open to the world and the results are impressively bad to nearly all web browsers.
According to a Wikipedia article the test is a suite with 100 subtests, in six groups, called “buckets”:

Bucket [...]

In an over charged world of projects management and ideas, it sometimes hard to gather the attention to the ultimate decider (your boss or yourself) to use new technologies.
I started at the beginning of this week to seed (and water it  ) my boss brain with new possibilities with AIR. Some techniques worked greatly [...]

Interesting online presentation by Andrew Trice about ‘Programmatic Visualizations in AIR’ with Flex.
Full of nice examples, it’s already a bit old (November 2007) but you may have missed it, as I did :)
Access to the recorded presentation (Adobe ID is needed)
Download source code
Ahmet