Merapi is a new project that is a framework for connecting AIR to java at the desktop. It will be built as freeware until the team is happy with the stability. We will then move it to Google Code and make the project open source. There will be more to come but for now I [...]
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Mims Wright has just released a new animation library. I haven’t tried it out yet, but it looks pretty cool. Quoting the wiki: “KitchenSync was designed for developers who want a smart way to handle animation or other time-based functionality with code. Written from the ground up in ActionScript 3.0, KitchenSync relies on smart object-oriented [...]
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I’ll be speaking at the next 360|Flex conference coming up in Atlanta. If you’ve not been to a 360|Flex in the past, they’re great conferences and you should definitely check it out. Tom and John do a great job a putting these events on. There will be a ton of great speakers, include several from [...]
Continue readingThis post is in response to the recent battle of words ignited by a post from Mike Chambers called CommandProxy : .NET / AIR Integration Proof of Concept. Soon after Scott Barnes posted a response to Mike’s post called Adobe AIR + .NET Proxy – Concerns arise and a subsequent post RE: Adobe AIR + [...]
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Joe is the man that brought us the AIR iPhone powered by Ribbit. I’m really excited to have Joe on board helping lead the UX charge at Universal Mind.
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One of the fairly simple applications I’ve been impressed with since switching to Mac OS X about a year ago is Toast. Particularly, I like the way they use a morphing effect. A similar effect is used throughout Mac OS X. As a simple UX exercise I decided to recreate the Google Talk install process [...]
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There has been a bit of buzz around Artemis lately, so I thought I’d do a quick update on what up for Artemis. First off, my friend Louie Penaflor at Tapper Nimer and Associates Digital Primates has been doing some cool stuff with Artemis and scanners. Check out his recent blog on it: Going beyond [...]
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After making the decision to leave my former position I had another tough decision to make; what to do next. My first plan was to contract for a while to see how I enjoyed that lifestyle as well as try out a few companies, but as I took the advice of many of my friends [...]
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About three weeks ago I officially left EffectiveUI. This was an extremely difficult decision, one that I made in order to pursue career objectives outside of EffectiveUI. I have been contracting since, but will soon be on in a new full time position that I’m really excited about… more to come on that. I wish [...]
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One of the coolest video ripping / conversion tools I’ve ever used. This thing is freeware, cross platform, and has a GUI and command line interface. I recently purchased a Mac Mini to serve up media to my TV and HandBrake has been awesome for ripping my DVD collection. Do yourself a favor and check [...]
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