Thursday, July 9, 2009
Flash is amazing, my quick random PSA
Thursday, July 9, 2009 
We all know it, and we've known it for a long time. Just about anything you want to do can be done using Flash Player 10. Sometimes we lose sight of the power of this technology when we're knee deep in the slop of application development and we're just focused on doing and getting the job done.
Today I had a moment when I stepped back from my desk and marveled at what I was doing. Not in that way. It's just that an hour before an idea had already formulated itself into a working, beautiful, and easy to use thing. Any kind of functionality I wanted to create simply happened and wasn't a struggle.
Flash is beautiful. To those whose only experience with it are those online advertisements... think about how lousy those advertisements would be without Flash. Think of the good ones you've seen that respected your audio space. The ones incorporating video and games and inclusion of dynamic data with cool visualizations.
Yes, sometimes people take it too far. But so what. It's all good. Enjoy the freedom to express yourself and do cool things. That's all for this PSA, back to work. Which I love.
Today I had a moment when I stepped back from my desk and marveled at what I was doing. Not in that way. It's just that an hour before an idea had already formulated itself into a working, beautiful, and easy to use thing. Any kind of functionality I wanted to create simply happened and wasn't a struggle.
Flash is beautiful. To those whose only experience with it are those online advertisements... think about how lousy those advertisements would be without Flash. Think of the good ones you've seen that respected your audio space. The ones incorporating video and games and inclusion of dynamic data with cool visualizations.
Yes, sometimes people take it too far. But so what. It's all good. Enjoy the freedom to express yourself and do cool things. That's all for this PSA, back to work. Which I love.
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