Saffron is still alive!

Every year, I try to attend FITC Toronto to learn, play, network and recharge my creative battery.  There’s a lot of things that you can learn about the industry and the technology at this amazing conference.

Now, let’s do a small recap; in 2007, not long after the introduction of AIR, an ambitious project surfaced called Saffron.  This was a sexy Flash UML tool built with AIR that could be used to plan, architect and design large applications.  The creator, Samuel Agesilas, wasn’t talking much about details but he did show the Flash world a glimpse of his project.  Shortly after though, it had seemed that Samuel went completely offline.  Rumors started to surface that Samuel and his project was bought by Microsoft so that he can make a sexy, functional UML tool for Silverlight.  Nobody could confirm or deny it, Samuel wasn’t there to comment.

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