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PixelPyros open source digital fireworks project

It’s been a little while since I’ve posted, but I’ve been super busy travelling (I was in Japan last week). Now I’m home in Brighton until September which gives me plenty of time to work full time on the next generation of digital interactive fireworks. The new version will be much more sophisticated – I’m […]

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NYC workshop sold out in 5 hours – here’s another!

I’m astonished and delighted that these sell out so quickly. The new one is the 25-26 June and you can get tickets from Tuesday at 11am EST. As before, leave your details if you want a reminder. Full details on my training page.

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New York workshop

As part of my ongoing crazy travel schedule, I’m going to be in Denmark in two weeks, and then off to Minneapolis for the brilliant Eyeo Festival. After that, I’ll be in New York for the Reasons Festival so I decided to spend the rest of June in the city. And I’ve also decided to […]

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Battle of the Browsers

image by Andi Smith I had a great time at the State of the Browser conference in London on Saturday – it was nice to see representatives from FireFox, Chrome, Opera and MSIE all getting along so well. Getting along well is all nice and stuff, but isn’t it more fun if there’s a bit […]

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On the road again – Germany, London, Amsterdam, Denmark, USA

flickr/hellogeri After opening the excellent DiBi in Newcastle, I’ve got a fairly crazy couple of months to get through – I’m really going to have to learn to say no… 🙂 First there’s BTPlay in Cologne, Germany, there may be a few tickets left so get in touch if you want to come. State of […]

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Gotcha! Fake MMO Asteroids April fool :)

Haven’t most April fools jokes got a bit silly lately? They’re more just funny than actually fooling you. This year, I thought I’d raise the bar with a completely fake MMO Asteroids, but I could never imagine so many of you would be taken in. I’m so sorry. It all started around a year ago. […]

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Node.js experiment: MMO Asteroids

I’ve had my eye on Node.js for a while now so I jumped at the chance to attend Remy’s excellent workshop a couple of weeks ago. Most people associate node with websockets but actually node is a hugely versatile platform capable of running powerful servers and web-apps. That said, anyone who knows me will know […]

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Upcoming creative coding conferences in Europe

Here are a couple of events that I’ll be speaking at over the next couple of months and definitely worth checking out. FITC Amsterdam 27th-28th February 2012, Amsterdam, Netherlands I think this might be my fifth FITC Amsterdam in a row! I’ll be flying through this time (it always happens right around my birthday) and […]

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CreativeJS Amsterdam sold out – want another?

[UPDATE] You wanted it so you got it! New Amsterdam workshop on 10-11 April, tickets on sale Weds 22 Feb at 11 GMT (12 CET). Booking and information on my training page. It was quite a week – all of my courses sold out in a matter of days (Brighton in only 24 hours!). I’ll […]

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Learn to code in 2012 – the visual way

If you’re a designer or artist and have never programmed JavaScript before, I’ve got a new course just for you : CreativeJS for non-coders. It assumes no pre-existing code knowledge (although a little HTML/CSS will be helpful) and we start from the very beginning with variables, functions, and objects. If you’ve been following the podcast […]