Archive for the ‘General’ Category

Great BitmapData Usage Example: messmaker.com

Tuesday, March 24th, 2009

Here's a great example of a site that allows the user to create a custom composition by using a butt load of animated bitmap assets. I'm quite impressed, one of the most solid executions of this technique I've seen in a while. Not to mention Harry is a great little ...

MSPCA Walk Boston

Thursday, September 4th, 2008

Assuming Boston doesn't get rocked by a tropical storm on Sunday, I'll be walking in the MSPCA / Angell Walk for Animals. I'm walking with the BeerAdvocate team. If you're also walking in this event, please say hello. If you'd like to sponsor me to the tune of, any donations ...

Ah, the North East.

Monday, August 11th, 2008

I took a screen-cap of this yesterday... Thought it was funny/depressing. From the looks of it, everyone on the East Coast and parts of the Mid West are getting hammered by thunderstorms daily.

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 ...