Monthly Archives: December 2008

Closed Source

By Ian McKellar | December 24, 2008

So now that I’m working on something that’s proprietary, closed source and in stealth mode, I’m finally doing stuff and learning how to do things that are really cool! Typical. Perhaps I should just start queuing up blog posts about the stuff I’ve discovered to push out live once we launch something other people could [...]

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Flash Development with Flex Builder

By Ian McKellar | December 18, 2008

Dear Lazyweb, I’ve started doing Flash and Flex development. For me the Flex Builder IDE is significantly better than the Flash CS4 IDE, but when you build a SWF in Flex Builder it includes all of the MX widgetry. That’s too heavyweight for building simple Flash applets. Is it possible to get around that so [...]

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New challenges

By Ian McKellar | December 18, 2008

So I’ve been at a new job for a couple of weeks now. I left Songbird around when we shipped 1.0 to seek some new challenges. I’ve been doing Mozilla browser development for seven and a half years and I’m sick of it. I still think building browsers is one of the most interesting fields [...]

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