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Creative JavaScript/HTML5 training

After Full Frontal there was a lot of interest in learning about creative visual programming so I’ve set up a two day course here in Brighton on January 10th and 11th 2011. We’ll cover all aspects of creative visual JavaScript coding: advanced interactions, physics, gaming and 3D. We’ll be using my own code and Mr.doob’s […]

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Learn AIR for Android

If you’re thinking about getting started with AIR for Android, why not join us at our dotBrighton meeting on Wednesday? David Arno will be telling us all how to get started. Bad news! There aren’t any real-life tickets left! Good news! You can go get yourself a ticket for the live stream. And if you’re […]

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dotBrighton openFrameworks night – video

… is now online, and has a special surprise guest appearance from Grant Skinner! (Which he further expanded upon in a blog post) openFrameworks night part 3 of 3 from dotBrighton on Vimeo. James has also very kindly made the example files available to download on his blog. And if that’s not enough you can […]

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openFrameworks for Flashers

Continuing on my personal quest to encourage you to learn everything, we’re putting on a dotBrighton meeting all about openFrameworks. made with openFrameworks from openFrameworks on Vimeo. openFrameworks is an open source creative coding library, here’s the description from the website : The library is designed to work as a general purpose glue, and wraps […]

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Kitten Conveyorbelt goes FREE!

There’s no excuse to put it off any longer: for a limited time, the must-have kitten-and-conveyorbelt-based app Kitten Conveyorbelt is absolutely free! Download it now from the AppStore Rated *****! “One of the BEST Kitten Conveyorbelt apps out there today! Don’t be fooled by imitations!” – Scott Janousek

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How to debug AIR for Android

At first, it seemed like no matter what I did I’d just get the Enter IP Address or Hostname requester in my AIR app. So, to get rid of this dreaded requester once and for all follow my handy debugging AIR Android checklist! If you’re new to Air for Android I’d recommend checking Lee Brimelow’s […]

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iPhone AppStore submission gotchas

I’ve just had a couple of issues submitting my new iPhone app to the AppStore. I have to say, it’s quite a convoluted process. In xCode’s organiser window you have a couple of very handy big buttons to validate and submit the app, which sounds perfect! Except that these buttons do absolutely nothing, and give […]

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Top Cat music game on FlashPlayer on Nexus1

I hate to say it but not many Plug-in Media projects are optimised for low end machines. We usually squeeze every bit of performance out of Flash to fill every part of the screen with crazy 3D, pixels and video! But! We found one that works really well! And it works well for two reasons […]

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AIR for Android first steps

Having finished my first iPhone app in Objective C I thought it was probably time to have a go at setting up my Nexus1 with AIR for Android. Yes. I’m a digital slut. And no. I’m not gonna pick a side. Deal with it. 🙂 But anyway, I digress! I found Lee’s very cool intro […]

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3D globe in JavaScript with three.js

In my last post I mentioned that it should be possible to make a 3D globe in JavaScript using three.js. I was even considering putting it together myself but I didn’t need to because the awesome Mr Doob stepped in to prove it! Sadly I’m only seeing 1 frame per second right now in both […]