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Mystery Papervision3D book?

I’m frequently asked about when my “Experience Papervision3D” book is coming out. Well the truth is, there is no Papervision3D book and there never was! I was in talks with Apress on behalf of the entire team and we were originally all going to contribute a couple of chapters each. However talks kinda fizzled out […]

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Flash will eat itself?

While Flash (the tool) can only target Flash (the platform), isn’t that limiting its efficacy? Don’t we need vector animations in other platforms and apps?

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Overwhelmed by positivity from FOTB

Flash on the Beach was amazing this year. I really feel like John is getting the formula right – there were many more creative sessions this year, and the Dome bar was kept open after the inspire sessions. This was a great opportunity to hang out, chat (without loud banging music – take note other […]

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Apple buys 3D Flash app

I just found this article about Apple acquiring 3D mapping company Poly9, whose site has been taken down since the acquisition. As far as I can tell, the French-Candian Poly9 is most well known for their in-browser 3D globe, that on the surface looks like a JavaScript library but is actually Flash (albeit with HTML […]

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FlashBelt 2010 review

What can I say about FlashBelt that hasn’t already been said? It’s such a great conference and Dave did an excellent job yet again. Sadly I missed a lot of sessions as I had last minute changes to my own presentation, but managed to make it to the classic double act Richard Galvan and Mark […]

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Deleting .svn files on OSX

Go to the terminal, navigate to the folder you want to delete files from and type : find . -name “*.svn” -exec rm -rf {} ; This should delete all .svn folders in the current directory and recurse down into sub-folders too. Please be careful with this! 🙂 I also found this handy AppleScript which […]

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How I learned to stop worrying and love Adobe

You may have seen some of the comments on my previous post, the first report from MAX this year. At first I was surprised and upset by Mike Chambers’ and Lee Brimelow’s reactions, but I wanted to take the time to reflect on this and gain some perspective on their point of view. It can […]

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How to redesign your WordPress blog in 10 minutes

Step 1 Download one of the marvelous blank templates from Refuelled Step 2 Upload it to your WordPress themes folder and activate it. Step 3 Edit the CSS in Firefox to fiddle with the colours and size. Copy and paste the edited CSS into your styles.css file. Oh I also stuck in the very cool […]

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New Adobe MAX controversy

It’s about that time of year where a few of us Flash speakers get together and have a good old whinge about Adobe’s speaker expense policy. In fact it’s become somewhat of an annual tradition. But this year Adobe have ruined our fun by blatantly covering speakers full expenses including flights and hotel! Seriously though […]

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Adobe MAX speaker expenses – still no joy

I just realised that I kinda left this thread hanging – the truth is I’m bored with this fight! (And the discrepancies with european prices too). I tried but failed to figure out whether their “free gift” for speakers would be something I may actually want (thus making up for the flights), but apparently that […]