“Absinthe Dilution Faerie” is a small application which calculates how much water one should temper a dose of absinthe with in accordance with the ABV percentage as laid out by Michael Meyers of The Wormwood Society. The application also has the support of The Wormwood Society! If you are at all interested in absinthe or …
This week, Adobe released a totally revamped version of the Adobe Education Exchange! For those unfamiliar; over the past two years or so, the Education Exchange has provided a way for educators to share resources, materials, content, and whatnot to anyone else registered with the exchange. There is also a place set aside for discussions …
Fractured Vision Media, LLC has now released the “Emergent Collective Two” community compilation CD as a free download along with PDF booklet, audio disc image, and high quality MP3 downloads. If you visit the release website, you can listen to the album, download it, and view the booklet via Flash Player or HTML (if you …
For whatever reason, I’ve resisted the call of GitHub for quite a while now. Years, in fact. It always sort of turned me off that the service seemed so very Apple-centric and exclusionary and I generally felt that my code wasn’t pretty or even “correct” enough to be sharable. Well, turns out they have a …
The call for submissions for the Emergent Collective Two community compilation CD closed with 2012’s dying breath. For the curious, we now present a list of contributors and their submissions. The aural submissions (in alphabetical order): ‘Anonymous’ : Introduction… Christer (McFunkypants) Kaitila : ProStyle coderjun : Truth Compilers : Giveth An Early Morning Letter, Displaced : Hope of …
Please join me in welcoming Apache Flex as a top level Apache Software Foundation project with Alex Harui from Adobe as VP! Congratulations, all – what a wonderful way to close out the year :D The current release build of Apache Flex is 4.8 – a parity release with Adobe Flex 4.6. However, Apache Flex 4.9 is in release …
Over the US holiday weekend, I participated in the Charity Game Jam organized by Christer Kaitila, author of Adobe Flash 11 Stage3D (Molehill) Game Programming Beginner’s Guide and The Game Jam Survival Guide (for which I was able to serve as technical reviewer). The idea was to make a game inspired by the technical limitations …
Based upon conversations and feedback I’ve received since the original announcement, I have been able to somewhat organize the project and come up with what I consider to be a reasonable submissions deadline. We also have two additional submission forms to make this process as pain-free as humanly possible; one for music and one strictly …
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Light-weight, skinnable, and extensible UI components for mobile and desktop. Feathers puts it all together in one package — along with blazing fast GPU powered graphics (courtesy of Starling Framework) to create a smooth and responsive experience. This is really neat – the UI component library formerly known as “Foxhole” is now called “Feathers” and …
In 2010, I introduced the idea for a “Community Compilation CD” with the following words: One of the aspects I greatly admire about the communities I interface with (primarily Flash developers, but digital tech people of all stripes) is that there is such a diverse amount of talent, interest, and drive among these individuals. More …
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I’m pleased to once again be included in the list of Adobe Community Professionals for the coming year. This will be my second term serving as an ACP and I do hope that I can continue giving back in this role for many years to come. I truly enjoy working with Adobe, other industry partners, …
I’m gearing up in preparation for the Adobe Education Leader Institute [JULY 23-26, 2012] at Adobe’s San Jose offices. That’s two weeks from today! Always a great opportunity to connect with Adobe and others working in both higher education and K-12. This will be my fourth institute and I’ll be presenting a talk on the …