Archive for the ‘General’ Category

[BOSTON] New dev/design career anyone?

Friday, May 16th, 2008

The company I work for, Almighty (almightyboston.com), is looking for that special someone. What would make that ideal 'special someone?' A designer / developer who has a couple years of experience. Knows AS2/OOP (AS3 preferred). Has some design chops. Would absolutely love to work on projects that involve animation, ...

R&D Departments & AD Agencies.

Saturday, May 3rd, 2008

There was a pretty interesting entry up on CREATIVITY (online) last week. It was about how Arnold, Boston started it's very own Research & Development department, staffed with a couple of young technologist/designers. [read here] My opinion on this matter is a bit mixed. Part of me is looking at this ...

Will Adobe Continue to Please Us All? Yeah, I think so.

Thursday, February 7th, 2008

Recently, as seen via MXNA, I've noticed quite a bit of discourse over Adobe's future plans with the Flash platform. Specifically, are few people are nervous that Adobe will abandon the Flash IDE and perhaps focus on other development platforms such as Flex Builder. Its a rather interesting thing to ...

Google Announces Open Mobile OS. Adobe to accelerate Linux support?

Monday, November 5th, 2007

So Google has announced their open mobile OS initiative: Android. The OS is based on Linux, totally open source, and will be released under the Apache v2 license. Additionally, there are already a slew of carrier, software, manufacturing, and other various "alliance" members. And to top it all off, they'll ...

FlashForward & Books

Wednesday, June 13th, 2007

We've been wickedly busy over the past couple of months. Outside of rocking our day jobs ( at Schematic & Rokkan ), we've been co-authoring a book on Adobe AIR with Todd Anderson ( of Schematic ). On top of this, we're presenting at FlashForward, Boston in September. Our ...

Oh Boy! Safari on PC (complete with immediate problems).

Monday, June 11th, 2007

So if you haven't heard, Apple released Safari 3 beta for XP and Vista today. I can't say that I'm all that stoked about it because, for one, I think Safari is a crummy browser. Aside from rendering stuff really fast, I've never heard anyone talk about how good it ...