Hollywood - Rockstar coder Edward Finkler or Funkatron, as he is
known on the
BlueBlood.net boards, was rocking a shirt for Blue
Blood's
SpookyCash.com when interviewed at the sold out Adobe
Max 2007 show
about Spaz, his award-winning desktop client for
Twitter. SpookyCash is
Blue Blood's business2business affiliate program where
people who run
high traffic sites can get paid for sending members to
Blue Blood and
Blue Blood-related membership sites. Blue Blood's
SpookyCash.com is
known for its unique high quality photography and
industry-leading
technology implementation. Whoever was operating the
Adobe Max 2007 site
camera was into the Blue Blood T-shirt too, because
they came in for a
long close-up. Blue Blood head honcho Amelia G's
Twitter account is
featured in the presentation as well.
In order to spur interest in their new Adobe Integrated
Runtime or AIR
development tool, Adobe held the Adobe AIR Developer
Derby. Funkatron
won the recent Adobe AIR Developer Derby prize for Best
HTML Community
Application. On winning the award, Ed says, "I
submitted Spaz as
something of an afterthought, to be honest. I had
received some good
feedback on it from a couple people at Adobe, but I
didn't think it was
all that, so to speak. Throughout the development
process I avoided
looking at what other developers were doing, especially
other Twitter
devs, because I was sure it would send me into a
tailspin of despair at
the bush league-ness of my own kung fu. After all, Spaz
is the first
"Rich Internet Application" I've written. I hadn't even
written an AJAX
call in any code up until Spaz. So, receiving this
award is a great
surprise to me, and very encouraging."
Blue Blood's Amelia G says of Funkatron, "He is humble,
but he really is
that good. I'm thinking Adobe is not exactly bush
league in their
ability to judge code development."