http://blog.lovelycharts.com You think, we draw. Sun, 11 Apr 2010 14:03:49 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Why? Because I think the iPad is a pretty cool device. Because I can definitely picture myself (and others) sketching out processes, workflows, structures... in my couch on an iPad. Because I think it would benefit Lovely Charts' users. When Adobe announced Flash CS5 would feature an iPhone/iPad packager, capable of taking existing code ... http://blog.lovelycharts.com/2010/04/11/dear-apple-i-will-use-cs5-to-create-an-ipad-app/ I finally found/took the time for creating a little video preview of the upcoming version 2.0 of Lovely Charts! Check out the video, and please let me know how you feel about it, either by commenting below, or via email at jerome at lovelycharts dot com As you will see in the ... http://blog.lovelycharts.com/2009/10/19/v2-preview/ To be fair, I knew my last post was going to do some waves, but I honestly didn't expect the prompt and efficient response it received. To make a long story short this time, a proper CS4 retail box is on its way to my office, so I'm happy again ... http://blog.lovelycharts.com/2009/10/14/dear-adobe-thank-you/ So, I was initially going to write a blog post to tell you about how great Adobe MAX was and reveal a small video preview of the upcoming V2 of Lovely Charts, but since I've just wasted another afternoon talking with Adobe's customer service, I thought I'd do a little ... http://blog.lovelycharts.com/2009/10/13/dear-adobe/ And here comes "yet another über exciting milestone" in this whole adventure :)... I'm pretty happy and proud to announce Lovely Charts will be present at Adobe MAX this year, as an "Emerging" sponsor/exhibitor! This will be my first time as an exhibitor, and the least I can say is that ... http://blog.lovelycharts.com/2009/08/14/lovely-charts-at-adobe-max-2009/ Now, this is a decent update! I've just deployed what I consider a pretty cool 1.2 release, bringing you the following improvements: BPMN Libraries That's something like 40 new symbols + 5 new connector types. I'm definitely not a BPMN expert, so please let me know if you see anything missing or ... http://blog.lovelycharts.com/2009/07/07/12-bpmn-image-import-for-all/ Title says it all :). So many good news this week make me think I really need to buy a lottery ticket. Lovely Charts is nominated in the category "Best Bootstrapped Startup (less than 3 years old, EMEA)", there's only 2 days left to vote, don't forget to vote! http://uk.techcrunch.com/2009/06/24/the-europas-best-bootstrapped-startup-less-than-3-years-old/ http://blog.lovelycharts.com/2009/06/30/lovely-charts-is-nominated-for-techcrunch-europas/ Yet another minorbutcool update today, focusing on export related issues: JPG export is now up to 4 times faster, thanks to Thibault's fantastic work on optimizing the class responsible for encoding JPEGs for export. If you are into Flash/Flex development and don't know Thibault's website, you are missing on something, bookmark ... http://blog.lovelycharts.com/2009/06/11/export-enhancements-faster-safer-better/ A quick post to let you now I've just released a "relatively minor yet cool" update to Lovely Charts, adding the following: Dashed border support for rectangular symbols. A lot of people missed that, and so did I:)... Rectangles with dashed borders notably come in pretty handy when you need to ... http://blog.lovelycharts.com/2009/05/19/little-update-dashed-borders-3d-cube/ Wow, that was easy. Most readers of this blog or the newsletter already know this, but I'm working on an AIR version of Lovely Charts that will allow you to use Lovely Charts offline, save and open local files, etc etc. This is not a huuuuge effort, but it nevertheless requires ... http://blog.lovelycharts.com/2009/05/12/tip-prism-rocks/