savvas.malamas

Dear Adobe.. WTF?

I was afraid since 2005 that one day bad things will happen. Thank God Adobe did amazing things with Macromedia and I was really proud to see the NEW company.

CS4 is the baby of both companies and its a really amazing piece of software. Beautiful things also were announced on MAX 2008 which finished (the EU version) just yesterday..

And then I’ve just opened Safari to read my tweets and saw the worst announcement since 2005. Mike Downey and another 599 people out of Adobe. WTF?

I cant believe that this is really happening.
I wish to all Adobeans that are out the best of luck, not that they need it thought. 
I mean Jesus they are x-employees of the best software company, hello??

But man, Mike Downey? I didn’t see that coming and I don’t know what to think, I just want to wish you Mike the best on what you ‘ll do, I really hope to stay in touch and that for me you will always be the favorite Flash Manager (no offense to the current manager) even if you were not in that position the latest months. 

While I was using Flash IDE in every day’s tasks, you were the manager and I was really happy for being if not the 1st, one of the first Macromedians that I talked to. You also got me inspired into photography even thought I hate you a bit because you switch to Nikon

 

Good luck and please stay in touch. 

I really wish to meet you IRL soon. 

Take care,

Savvas

Adobe MAX in tweets!

No, unfortunately I didn’t attend MAX in San Francisco but thanks to my beloved twitters and while stacked on the huge traffic under this unbelievable rain in Athens tonight, I keep on track with whats happening on the other side of the world.

This is Adobe MAX 2008 in tweets:

WOW!

imaging..

Hello.. Anyone in Cupertino listening?

..but Apple’s permission is needed

Is Moscone that far away from Infinite Loop? No one is listening??

Off course..
Apple really needs to bring the other Steve on board..

This is called the whole internet Mr fruit guy..

Can you believe this.. Flash baby Player 10 in your pocket!

“Flash is everywhere, around you”..

Take that economy!

I’m waving…

Hey Mike that was available early in the morning here

No, Carla Bruni is NOT a codename..

The First lady for the First Company?

There is something in the Air again

Not only Flash Player is everywhere.. THIS is called cross platform!

Hmm.. Firefx what?

Not cool Andre..
I would call that AWESOMENESS(not that you don’t deserve it)!

I guess this will bring happiness to a lot of people..

As with Apollo,
I like more the code name but who cares..
Bring Thermo (oups I mean Flash Catalyst) to the people!

I think we need a maxinsider.com or maxrummors.com.

Thank you Adobeans for the live “stream” of info.

To Mike Downey:
after so many tweets I really hope that your fingers will be able to shoot some photos from the conference

Oh did I mention that all these were just from the first day which is not over yet??

Singularity early bird tickets available!

Just a quick note (in case you are not following Aral Balkan {really???}) but Singularity tickets are now on sale.

If you don’t know what Singularity is, there is no problem just imaging this:

-you can seat down on your comfy Herman Miller chair (or join a local hub near you if you don’t live in Greece {if you do, you can come at my place!} ..)

-turn on your gorgeous Apple Cinema display (ok you don’t need an Apple Cinema but you should have a look on OS X for Macromedia’s sake get a real OS!!)

-and enjoy the elite speaker list of the Flash Platform (and not only) talking.

That’s right you don’t need to travel, no extra expenses just 62 euros/99 USD, an OS (even win***z) and this small piece of paradise a.k.a. Flash Player.. You know the one that has about 4,802,815,999 installs.. aaah don’t even bother, you probably have it already installed because if you don’t, you are really in danger if Sigourney Weaver find you.. 

Congrats to Aral and all of the Singularity team!

Saving {my} twitter..

Hello there!

I have enabled the “protected” setting on my twitter account. Let me explain why..

First of all if you are a VERY positive person you can assume that I am trying to save twitter and skip the rest of this post.. If not here is my main reason:

It wasn’t a lot of time ago when I started using twitter, facebook, youTube and all of this fancy apps that (unfortunately) a lot of people thing that this is the internet..

Before that I used to have a Flickr account and I only uploaded photos that I liked, without including photos with me or other people. Then, when the Apollo Camp was getting ready to start I discover twitter and I loved it from the very 1st minute. I have never used chat, but twitter was a nice way to keep in touch with the Flesh (Flash/Flex) community and it didn’t looked like another chat thing. Then I thought that I could use all the other “web sites” to read interesting stuff and keep in touch with all these guys that are related to the lovely Flash Platform. I opened up a youTube account (I already had one that has more views than my “official” but without my name on it)  and I did an account on Facebook and on other “sites”. Right now I kinda hate FaceBook and I don’t use it that much (what’s to use for??). From all of this apps my favorite is by far Twitter (just to answer on PolyGeek’s poll). That’s because I use it EVERY SINGLE DAY, it’s the 1st thing I do after I boot (analogically AND digitally). It’s a way for me to feel more closed to all these wonderful people, Adobes or not and why not, have some help or give some help too if I can. The last days for example I had a lot of help from Cyril and Dan and I thank them a lot!

Just because I use it everyday it is obvious that sometimes I tweet things that I might don’t want to be available to the public timeline (Flex doesn’t have a timeline) and especially to search engines (Google please leave my twitter account and try to use Adobe’s help for swf indexing).

That’s why I protect my tweets from now on. If I don’t allow you to follow me it’s not because I have something against you or I feel something like “persona”, it’s just that twitter is a way for me to keep in touch with people related to my hobby(and my job), people that I might don’t even have met before but it is interesting to talk to (yes, again, people related to the platform). If you are one of them then blame twitter and DEFINITELY sent and me a request!

I still have a lot of public profiles like Flickr, FaceBook, youTube bla bla and I won’t bother making them “private”. All I am doing is keeping my twitter account clean and by clean I mean things that I find interesting. It just doesn’t feel right (to me) to allow my updates to being shown to people that I don’t follow (but they do) especially those with “bad ratio” or people that I DO follow but their updates are just spam for me (sorry for the expression but if you have understood the reason for opening an account on twitter I am sure you will get it). Finally, for the last few days I got one more person, with bad “ratio”, that follows me after every single tweet I make..  

There are a lot of people that I do follow and they don’t bother following me back but that’s ok since it’s their account and they can do everything they want. If they decide to go private and don’t allow me to read their tweets (like Keith Peters who I admire), of course that will be sad for me but that’s their call (and if they had a non protected account in the past while you were following them you can keep reading their tweets with twhirl – This is NOT official, it just happens for me).

Again sorry for not following back to you.