Cairngorm officially went open source a couple weeks ago, I started following the blog post by Alistair McLeod and Steven Webster when I heard the announcement.  A couple things are happening based on my readings, which I have linked at the bottom of the post (I suggest reading them in order). 

First off, this anouncement to me means that Cairngorm is not dead, it is very much alive and the Adobe Consulting team are working to come up with a strategy and execution plan to make it better with the help of the community (hence the open source piece).  I think this is great, it demonstrates Adobe's committment to the project. 

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I often pondered what would happen to Degrafa when Thermo hits the shelves, now it looks like Adobe has made a partnership with the Degrafa team and will initially adapt Degrafa's core graphics engine into Flex Graphics.  I think this is an awesome idea and will only improve the Flex community at large. 

You can read up on the full details here.

As the title suggest, this is a topic that I have been thinking about a lot lately.  I tend to be a jack of all trades, but in my case being a jack of all trades means that I never have the time to really get good at one thing.  For me this has become a serious problem that I plan on resolving soon.  I started looking at my life in general and I am this way across the board, not just at work.  I decided that I would try and figure out when I started to spread out and I narrowed it down to my Sophmore year in High School.

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