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About Me :
I'm a grownup nerd living in the Boston burbs. I write computer programs for a living and plays for fun.
I'm married to a wonderful woman, and we share a nice little house with our daughter and our cats.
I'm a humanist, a technologist, an artist, and an idealist. I believe in reason, freedom, love, equality,
and democracy. (Did I mention that I'm
an idealist? I did, OK.)
I'm also a pragmatist and an empiricist. I reject ideology and dogma, especially when they conflict with
practical facts (i.e., pretty much always). I particularly hate willful ignorance, which tends to go hand-in-hand
with ideology and dogma.
Like the alignment of the planets, this blog gets updated as I have the time, inspiration, and inclination to do so.
Like the alignment of the planets, this blog gets updated as I have the time, inspiration, and inclination to do so.
Friday, December 12, 2003
Convoq ASAP has gone beta
It's finally happened! Convoq ASAP has gone beta! This is the product I have been working on at Convoq for a little more than a year. Convoq ASAP is a new way to host instant meetings over the web, and supports text chat, live sound, video, file transfer, presentations, and screen sharing -- and it works even if the person you want to meet with doesn't have our client installed! I'm very proud to have played a part in the development of this product. It deserves to be a big hit!
The ASAP client is built mostly in Flash MX, which explains why I have been grousing about ActionScript for the better part of a year. I can finally say, however, that when all is said and done, Flash does a marvellous job for us. It may be hard to believe that it's possible to create a rich application in the Flash environment, but we have succeeded in doing so.
Convoq ASAP Product Overview
It's finally happened! Convoq ASAP has gone beta! This is the product I have been working on at Convoq for a little more than a year. Convoq ASAP is a new way to host instant meetings over the web, and supports text chat, live sound, video, file transfer, presentations, and screen sharing -- and it works even if the person you want to meet with doesn't have our client installed! I'm very proud to have played a part in the development of this product. It deserves to be a big hit!
The ASAP client is built mostly in Flash MX, which explains why I have been grousing about ActionScript for the better part of a year. I can finally say, however, that when all is said and done, Flash does a marvellous job for us. It may be hard to believe that it's possible to create a rich application in the Flash environment, but we have succeeded in doing so.
Convoq ASAP Product Overview