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PixelPhones – a huge display made with smartphones

Whew! It’s been a massively intense few weeks getting my PixelPhones project ready in time for my presentation at FOTB. I’ve been coding day and night for months, and I was up until 4am the night before making sure that I’d thought of everything. The worst part was that I had no idea if it […]

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FOTB recap and live podcast

Mark Burvill‘s final message to FOTB (made with his new found skills from my CreativeJS workshop) FOTB was awesome this year, and it looks like this will be the last, at least in this guise. I’m sure that John will do something just as awesome next year 🙂 It was an intense time for me […]

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Angry Birds in 30 minutes at Update 2011

The angry exorcist and ghost graphics by Jonathan Clapham Yesterday was Aral Balkan‘s Update conference as part of the Brighton Digital Festival. I don’t think I’ve ever been to a conference where organiser sings a song to open the event! (with a full live band I should add!) It was a really fantastic and enjoyable […]

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CreativeJS at GothamJS

Just a very short post to say I’m about to present at GothamJS and need to upload my files for you all 🙂 Creative JS files on github Some other links you may find interesting : HTML5 canvas sprite optimisation HTML platform game Multi-touch game controller in JavaScript/HTML5 for iPad Follow me on Twitter If […]

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I am a Mozilla Person of HTML5!

Mozilla evangelist and rock star Chris Heilmann asked me some extremely intelligent questions, to which I hopefully provided some reasonably intelligent sounding answers. 🙂 We talked about many aspects of the open stack; where is it going? What’s the future of GPU graphics on the internet? And a few graphics related performance tips too. See […]

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CreativeJS video from London Web Standards

A couple of weeks ago I had the pleasure of presenting my CreativeJS work at the London Web Standards Event. And they filmed it. And it’s here! It was such a friendly crowd and I had great fun. Rob Hawkes also spoke about his JavaScript multiplayer work – definitely worth checking out. As is his […]

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Come to FITC and win stuff!

Photo : Marc Thiele There seems to be continuing interest in “What the Flux!?”, my presentation about the future of Flash, so I’m reprising it at FITC in Amsterdam, in a change to the advertised session. What’s more – you can be a part of it! Instead of presenting a load of boring graphs*, I […]

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CreativeJS in Brighton, Amsterdam, SxSW Texas and Manchester

[UPDATE] Latest training information here My schedule seems to be filling up over the next few weeks! Firstly there’s another Brighton training workshop : a full 2 days of creative JavaScript training! (One space left!) Shortly after I’m flying out to FITC Amsterdam, where I’m giving a 1 day CreativeJS workshop and a presentation about […]

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The Future of Flash streamed from dotBrighton

Once more, I’m updating and reprising “What the Flux!?” at dotBrighton next week on the 8th December. Tickets available from 2pm today but you’ll be able to join us live online. I’ll be extending the Flashy Fortunes gameshow and you can be part of it – fill in the survey here and you could win […]

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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 […]