January 2008

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• AIR, Flex

  air / flex 3 prerelease tour

  01.30.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  A few days ago I went to the Sydney installment of the Adobe AIR / Flex 3 pre-release tour, where Daniel Dura, Adobe’s “Platform Evangelist” (which apparently doesn’t mean a born again new romantic, it means someone who spreads the word about the Adobe platform, which means, I guess, the Flash Player and related development [...]

• Web

  twitter widget

  01.24.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Just added the twitter widget from Velvet Unravelled. Very handy!

• Tech

  win32 workstation install checklist

  01.23.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  I sat down at yet another new win32 workstation on Monday morning to start at a new workplace. It took me a while to remember all the software (apart from the CS Suite, which was already installed) I would need to civilise the evil OS.
  So I’m listing them here, mostly for my own future reference. [...]

• Tech

  new contract: c4

  01.21.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Today I start a three-month contract at C4, a design agency based in Surry Hills. Just finding my feet at the moment; as projects go live I’ll be posting links …

• British

  tories, tax and the centre ground

  01.14.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Perhaps the latest round of squabbling from the Tory grassroots (the front bench may have successfully rebranded themselves with the party’s official name, “Conservatives”, but the bulk of the party are the same Tories they always were) will provide the Liberals some tactical space - if they were willing to use it.
  ConservativeHome, that shining beacon [...]

• British

  clegg and the law of the meaningless opposite

  01.13.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  In education policy, Nick Clegg appears to be a fully paid-up member of the cosy consensus of “choice” that the characterises the Labour and Tory front benches.
  In his first substantial speech since being elected to the Lib Dem leadership, he stakes out some ideological ground:
  There are two crucial dividing lines in British politics. First - [...]

• 3d, Flash

  pv3d stuff

  01.13.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Been looking at some interesting experiments with the new Pixel3D class in the Effects branch of Papervision.
  Meanwhile, it’s been announced that at the upcoming Papervision workshop at the FITC Amsterdam 08 conference, there will be a presentation on a forthcoming Papervision-based multiplayer game.
  I haven’t got much further with the Facebook Cover Flow app as [...]

• Web

  social networking - closing the web?

  01.13.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Steven Fry’s article in the Guardian raises some interesting points:
  For what is this much-trumpeted social networking but an escape back into that world of the closed online service of 15 or 20 years ago? Is it part of some deep human instinct that we take an organism as open and wild and free as the [...]

• Flex, Web

  cover flow friends - facebook app

  01.11.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  I’m working on a pointless little Facebook app (another one - just what the world needs!) that displays the user’s friends in a similar style to iTunes Cover Flow (inspired by the Blitz Agency app).
  Here’s what it looks like so far:

  Right now I’m working with the small FacebookUser.pic_square attribute, which is why things look pixelated. [...]

• 3d, Flash

  blitz agency papervision demo

  01.10.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Wow - amazing Papervision3D demo at BlitzAgency. Emulates the Cover Show animation of iTunes. Fantastic.

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