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The first of many great ideas for Flash player apps on Android:

http://newteevee.com/2010/03/10/the-ultimate-music-video-jukebox-via-fla...

On 2nd March I received an e-mail from "Android Market Seeding" at Google. A snippet of the e-mail reads:

"Due to your contribution to the success of Android Market, we would like to present you with a brand new Android device as part of our developer device seeding program. You are receiving this message because you're one of the top developers in Android Market with one or more of your applications having a 3.5 star or higher rating and more than 5,000 unique downloads. "

Here at work we use SVN extensively for all our Flex, .Net, Java and other projects. Always on the lookout for the next best thing I decided to take a look at GIT, the supposed SVN-killer.

For the most part I enjoy developing for the Android API. However, there are some very odd quirks that leave me pretty frustrated.

... and I can't wait!

I've had my Droid for almost 24 hours now. There are some things I love about it and a few things I don't!

With the advent of Flash Player 10 at the end of 2008, Adobe opened up a new generation of image processing techniques using the Pixel Bender system. In its simplest form, Pixel Bender allows the Flash or Flex developer to run mathematical algorithms used for image processing (and in fact other tasks) at a greatly increased rate. Flash Player does this by offloading those calculations to the computer's graphics processing unit (GPU) which is often faster than the main CPU.

This tutorial demonstrates the use of the Pixel Bender system in Flex Builder 3.

Today I moved a load of sites (including this one) over to Media Temple. The process has been fairly painless, although I'm still trying to figure out a coupe of niggles.

I've recently been working on a PHP/MySQL site. My usual development technologies are Flex/.Net over IIS running on Windows 7 so I had to find the best way of running a WAMP system.

Unless you've been living in space for the last 6 months, you'll be well aware that Windows 7 was released yesterday. I've been running Windows 7 RC for several months now and have been very pleased with it. There are a myriad of reviews on the web so I won't go into the dull details, but there are several points that really make Windows 7 an excellent operating system for me.