Straight from Adobe… Possibly the most anxiously awaited RIA development of the year. Adobe Apollo Public alpha to be released on Adobe labs imminently. I’m excited… are you excited? Sounds a bit rough around the edges as Bit-101 puts it, but I am still really looking forward to it. Hope that the Webkit stuff is at least semi-functional.

EDIT: Removed reference to Mike Chambers as Product Manager for Apollo, it is indeed Mike Downey, as he pointed out in the comments below. Apologies to both parties.

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What will the decency police say to this? Makes the hot coffee mod look a little tame IMHO, this is a sanctioned/designed part of gameplay. I’m pretty open minded, so it doesn’t really bother me a bit, but I can’t imagine this game being released like this after all the flack that RockStar took last year from Congress. Is this real? A spoof? A machinima? Can anyone out there confirm or debunk this?

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I am kind of torn on articles like this. I realize photoshop/illustrator is a very useful tool for producing designs. A necessary tool, even. I also realize that Imageready/Fireworks are needed to compress the images to make them web friendly. I’m not above using Dreamweaver when needed to bang out a quick design or two as well… but call me old fashioned. I don’t like the XHTML/CSS output by design tools like Imageready.

Using the argument that this is for mockups/prototypes will only get you so far, in my opinion. Why not just send a JPG? An HTML page with a JPG placed on it? A flash prototype, anything… why am I so against this… I guess it’s cuz I know most people just won’t go up and clean up the CSS or the HTML and we’ll just end up witha junk markup, non semantic, non search engine friendly page.

Dreamweaver 9, you better be good!

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The list is hilarious, but I feel they missed a couple of my favorites.

1. Good guys use Macs, bad guys use PCs.
2. Fingerprint scanning systems have really cool GUIs that show not only the print they are currently scanning, but also the number of matching points and the photo of the person the print is currently being compared against, for just a split second.
3. No one uses windows. Everyone uses some sort of OS developed by a Flash developer or some sort of KDE/Gnome theme.
4. When you connect to a remote system you have to call it something cool, like “uplinking”, or “jacking in”.
5. Even broadband connected computers have to go through a connection routine akin to dialing in via modem.
6. All systems at CTU have keyloggers and remote access/VNC on them.

Whenever I watch TV with my wife and I notice these, I usually can’t help but let out an amused snort.

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