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There is always hope...even for Adobe

I asked them to frankly and openly, even in technical detail, talk about some of the issues they face. Not blamestorming, not to justify, but to illustrate that, like the case always is, it's not so easy when you're elbow-deep in the code. But get the damned information out there, because if you're pissed off that everyone is hammering you, well, look at the information your providing! What do you expect people to think when your major public voice is a mindless bobblehead with all the technical acumen of a particularly stupid cat?

If the only facts people have suck, then the only opinions the can have will suck too.

I was happy with how the meeting went, but everything's easy in a meeting. What's hard is actually doing stuff. I wasn't sure if the Flash team was going to skew ala the CS Installer team, (i.e.: "good"), or like the Acrobat team, (i.e.: "bad").

Today I see a bit on Daring Fireball that links to an article from someone on the Flash team may be trying to nudge the supertanker in the right direction. Tinic Uro, an engineer on the Flash team has the kind of post that more people need to associate with Flash. It's concise, seems reasonably correct, (although I absolutely don't have the chops to really judge), but most importantly, it's the opposite of the tripe we have seen too much of from Adobe on this issue.

In truth, all of Tinic's blog is pretty damned good.

So go there, read it, (even if you don't like what he's saying, he's saying it well, and in a non-accusatory fashion. Given what we see too much of from the Flash team, this needs to be encouraged. In other words, don't be reflexively douchey to him), and spread the link love. More Tinic and less Dowdell cannot be anything but good in the long run.

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As some of you may know, I had a meeting with the Adobe Flash Team the Monday before Macworld. (yes, I know, it's strange, but so is my life in general.) It was...really good. No, Dowdell wasn't there, thank god. It was a room full of engineers, with a guest appearance by Emmy Huang, and me. No yelling, no shouting, just an open, frank exchange of ideas, wherein I tried to tell them that as the people doing the work, they had to, had to, start talking about the actual engineering issues, so that their sole representative to the world wasn't Mr. \"Use a Flash Blocker\".\n\nI asked them to frankly and openly, even in technical detail, talk about some of the issues they face. Not blamestorming, not to justify, but to illustrate that, like the case always is, it's not so easy when you're elbow-deep in the code. But get the damned information out there, because if you're pissed off that everyone is hammering you, well, look at the information your providing! What do you expect people to think when your major public voice is a mindless bobblehead with all the technical acumen of a particularly stupid cat?\n\nIf the only facts people have suck, then the only opinions the can have will suck too.\n\nI was happy with how the meeting went, but everything's easy in a meeting. What's hard is actually doing stuff. I wasn't sure if the Flash team was going to skew ala the CS Installer team, (i.e.: \"good\"), or like the Acrobat team, (i.e.: \"bad\"). \n\nToday I see a bit on Daring Fireball that links to an article from someone on the Flash team may be trying to nudge the supertanker in the right direction. Tinic Uro, an engineer on the Flash team has the kind of post that more people need to associate with Flash. It's concise, seems reasonably correct, (although I absolutely don't have the chops to really judge), but most importantly, it's the opposite of the tripe we have seen too much of from Adobe on this issue. \n\nIn truth, all of Tinic's blog is pretty damned good. \n\nSo go there, read it, (even if you don't like what he's saying, he's saying it well, and in a non-accusatory fashion. Given what we see too much of from the Flash team, this needs to be encouraged. In other words, don't be reflexively douchey to him), and spread the link love. More Tinic and less Dowdell cannot be anything but good in the long run.