Dot Matrix Revolution

12/10/2008 02:52 am in General
DOT MATRIX REVOLUTION* from superbrothers on Vimeo.

Adobe job cuts and the community

12/05/2008 02:17 pm by Peter Elst in General
By now you will probably have heard the news that Adobe is laying off 600 people, or about 8% of their employee base supposedly because of “weaker-than-expected demand for Creative Suite 4″ which started shipping in October. It came as a real shock to all of us, especially timing this announcement just after the MAX [...]

Thoughts on Mumbai 11/26

12/01/2008 08:54 pm by Manish Jethani in General
A number of people have written to ask if I'm OK. My friends don't know where I am. That's understandable; sometimes even I don't know where I am. I went quiet on Twitter a few days ago, and now, as usual, I have been supremely difficult to reach on the phone (yes, I have a [...]

Thoughts on Mumbai 11/26

12/01/2008 08:54 pm by Manish Jethani in General
A number of people have written to ask if I'm OK. My friends don't know where I am. That's understandable; sometimes even I don't know where I am. I went quiet on Twitter a few days ago, and now, as usual, I have been supremely difficult to reach on the phone (yes, I have a [...]

The Rules Are Simple

11/30/2008 03:54 pm in General

5 years of blogging.

11/29/2008 05:10 pm in General
Yup, 5 years ago today, I posted the following: http://www.bit-101.com/blog/?p=476 I started on Moveable Type, but some time later switched over to WordPress. Of course, I had the BIT-101 site and domain more than a couple of years before that, posting experiments and so forth. But everyone was doing the blog thing so I followed the lemmings over [...]

Black Friday at WalMart

11/29/2008 03:26 pm in General

If you’re into fractals…

11/29/2008 04:26 am in General
you might enjoy this: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/fractals/program.html I just noticed it and started watching, so I can’t vouch for it yet, but looks interesting.

Who needs a Kindle? I have an iPod.

11/26/2008 02:48 pm in General
In my last post, I talked about Instapaper, a rocking web / iPod app that allows you to save web pages and read them later. I’ve even found whole books that have been published in html form, where you can save each chapter in Instapaper and read them on your iPod. Next I’m going to talk [...]

Instapaper - my new favorite app

11/26/2008 02:08 pm in General
I’ve known about Instapaper for a while, but recently started using the heck out of it. It’s one of those things that seems so simple as to be stupid at first, but it grows on you and soon you don’t know how you lived without it. The iPhone / iPod Touch integration is what makes [...]

Processing out of Beta!

11/25/2008 01:20 pm in General
I first played with Processing several years ago, when you had to request to get on the beta, and the name of the language was spelled with two 5’s instead of S’s: Proce55ing. (In fact, you’ll still occasionally see Processing abbreviated as “P5″.) I’ve played with various versions of it over time, never getting into [...]

Judging the Ribbit Killer App Challenge

11/24/2008 10:59 pm by Matt Chotin in General
I'm excited that I'm going to be one of the judges for the Ribbit Killer App Challenge where you can submit Flash applications (built with Flash or Flex) that use the Ribbit SDK for some crazy cash prizes. The earlier...

The Autism Quotient

11/21/2008 01:35 pm by Manish Jethani in General
How autistic are you? Take the test.

The Autism Quotient

11/21/2008 01:35 pm by Manish Jethani in General
How autistic are you? Take the test.

Klaatu barada nikto

11/21/2008 01:30 pm in General

A brief history of the global financial system

11/21/2008 02:53 am by Manish Jethani in General
Everybody’s talking about money. The global financial crisis has directly or indirectly affected all of us. It has got us all thinking: How did this happen? To understand how we got here, it is important to know a bit about the history of the global financial system. Here’s a 47-minute video by Paul Grignon that explains how [...]

Could Microsoft please talk about its own technologies for a change?

11/18/2008 08:47 pm by Flashcomguru.com in General
I mean seriously, what is it that makes Adobe so attractive to Microsoft employees? Are they looking for blogs like this one to write a reply and feed off some link bait? That's clearly a successful strategy, especially when the same bloggers selectively turn off comments on such posts. How lame.
Why not tell us about your technology, show us how it's better, faster, prettier, and maybe convert one or two of us?

I am really getting bored of it. Whenever I attend a non-Adobe conference and watch any Microsoft folks speak I hear how bad [insert Adobe technology here] is in comparison to [insert Microsoft technology here]. Is this really necessary? Can Silverlight not stand up by itself, or does it really require a bashing of the other guy? I simply don't see this behaviour in the Flash camp, they are quite happy to show their work and let that speak for itself. Good on you.

PS: Check out the tag cloud - says a lot about Microsoft's focus. Borderline obsessive.

Tidbits from MAX 2008

11/17/2008 08:49 pm by Flashcomguru.com in General
There's quite a lot happening on Twitter today (you can follow me if you like) and I thought I may post a few important announcements here.

AIR and Flash Player 10 on mobile is a big deal. The Google Android creator Andy Rubin was on stage talking about Flash Player 10 running on Android. There was also a demo of installing Flash Lite apps over the air on Windows Mobile and Symbian. About time.
More importantly, Adobe and ARM are partnering up and will bring the full Player 10 to a lot of smartphones. Adobe can also deliver Player 10 for the Jesus Phone - but Steve Jobs needs to give it the ok first. Apple's loss (and mine) if you ask me.

Thermo is now called Flash Catalyst. Nice piece of toolkit, rubbish name.

A 64bit preview release of Flash Player 10 for Linux is available now on Labs.

Cocomo is in public beta, but I told you that already.

Last but not least, Major League Baseball (MLB.com) are switching back to Flash for all their video broadcasts, dropping Silverlight in the process. That's quite a big deal since MLB have made a serious investment in Windows Media. Since their service is pay per view one must assume that they are quite happy with the level of protection Flash video offers them.

Mac Book Pro Must-Haves

11/16/2008 04:34 pm in General

Memory leaks in Papervision3D patched up!

11/13/2008 07:26 pm by Seb Lee-Delisle in General
We all know how stable and optimised Papervision3D is. But a small number of developers who need to constantly create and discard 3D objects will have encountered a particularly tricky little memory leak. There have been several workarounds and custom destroy functions, which have helped to patch up the leak, but I can now announce [...]

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