So last night I was watching twitter and saw that Adobe got up the MXNAfeeds.adobe.com! This is a great resource for flash developers or anything Adobe and more. It gives you a great centralized location to find great information on application development and creativity from many different backgrounds. Take a look for your self!
Also stealing a bit of a great idea from a favorite blog of mine (eismann-sf.com/news) I've decided to start posting some of my favorite links I have discovered. Not sure how often this is going to happen but it will be easier for you all to find some fun links I found on here, instead of having to check my messy del.icio.us account!
hey guys I am working to get a new design implemented into the blog. so if you are seeing any weird issues let me know. But over the next few weeks you might be seeing some strange things going on. I'm trying my best to keep them offline until I have it all worked out but you know how that goes. I'm being a little trigger happy but it won't be to bad I promise! Thanks for the support.
Oh I should have some new tutorials coming soon. I'm looking at how to have a page just dedicated to them only!
And if any of you CSS whizzes wanna help out that would be much appreciated!
Wow! what exciting news did we get last night. The couple hundred of us that had up the Singularity badges were given a sneak peek under the hood of Aral's next little surprise to the Flash community. What could it be? The world will find out soon! Keep your ears peeled cause it could be anything with Aral behind it!
Update: Well the news is out! And wow how amazing is this going to be! True collaboration at its best. I am really interested to see how they plan to pull this off. Will they be building a custom app to stream the video? Or just use Breeze? No one knows yet! But I can't wait to see!
Wow guys! A friend of mine called me about an hour ago to tell me Lee Brimelow of Adobe had posted a blog talking about my Dear Adobe letter! It's such a great feeling to know that they are this close to us and our community and that they really do care what we have to say. WE are the people that make Flash. WE are in the trenches together and WE get to help guide our future. It is up to US!!
I really can't begin to explain how great a feeling this is. Knowing that Adobe is listening is one of the biggest honors to me and it should be to all of you too! Choosing a career path is hard for us all and most of the time, it only gets harder as we move on. Thinking "the man" is against us and we are all constantly fighting an uphill battle. Well it almost feels like we have "the man" on our team today. All I can say to the rest of you guys is keep up the great work. Our community speaks wonders about the way technology can bring us all closer, make the world feel smaller and help build better things in every way possible!
And Lee, thanks for the post, it's a true honor. I never really looked at how the product seems to alternate versions from developer to designer, but it really kinda does. I just hope it never leaves the hands of the young "devigners" who keep us moving forward and progressing our product.
How great has this month been! A brand new year and brand new blog for me! CES 2008 and now MacWorld. Its feels like the month has just flown by! And it doesn't look like its slowing down anytime soon!
So tonight my friend is going to stop by and I'm going to try and give him my quick 411 on fuse and how I have been using it the past 6 months. While we work I am going to build a tutorial to share the knowledge with all of you guys! So it should be a really fun post and my first try at sharing some of my knowledge. So bare with me but it should be lots of fun. For those of you not familiar with fuse you should first check out the fuse site, also look at gotoandlearn.com where lee brimelow has a great fuse tutorial and then download the cheat sheet that has been put together by ewaon.com. I keep one in front of me pretty much at all times along with a few other cheat sheets. They are very handy to get a quick look at the methods and properties we have available in flash and fuse.
I also wanted to say thanks to all the new visitors and I hope I can entertain you all enough to keep you coming back!
Update:
I haven't had time yet to write the post on our quick fuse session but I will try to put it together later!
Update:
Shewww... well its all over and I'm installing the new iPhone firware as I post this! Can't wait to play with the new features. I hope that it will store my login to gmail now! I'm sick and tired of having to login like 60 times a day to check my mail on there. Ok not that much but still. Bleh!
What do we think? We got a new Macbook, the Macbook Air, and also Time Capsule which I cannot wait to get my hands on one. I hate having to have my notebook plugged into a USB to be backing it up with Time Machine. I know, I know pick your battles but damn it is 2008 let's start using all this great technology we have available! Oh and the new Apple TV and the new movie rental deal which sounds ok. New apps for the iPod Touch thats a great addition to that product. Glad they decided on that. But most of all I can't wait to start using the iPhone 1.1.3 updated phone. Since I have one it will affect me the most right away.
Well I guess that's it for now. I'll try and post some more as news unveils today and people get their hands on some of these products.
Oh and last thing? NO CD DRIVE on the macbook air?!?!? WTF? That's going to be something to see how people like that! I mean really? Remote disc drive? Can an office have like 10 machines setup to use one disc drive then? To weird for me right now. But I am glad to see them add the gesture pad. Can you make that a firmware update to my macbook pro? please?!?!?!
Check out the Apple MacBook Air commercial also. Lots of Fun!
Ok so as you can tell the blog has taken on a new look and most likely will do so again in the near future. The current look is 'vader' from K2 for now. But I'm hoping to get time tonight to at least work on the header! But for now, thanks k2 for the improvement!
Also this weekend I spent about 2 hours putting together a really simple coming soon page for projectx4.com that shows off some of the work I have been doing the past two years. Its nothing special but at least there is something new up. I hope over the next few months to get a new site up. But I haven't set any deadlines for myself yet since i'm not totally sold on the design I have built so far.
While adding K2 to my blog I also setup some more stuff for keeping those pesky spammers away so you may notice that as well. And the blog roll keeps getting bigger also as you will notice some new additions over there. Anyway thanks for visiting a reading.
And last but not least I bought a PRO account at flickr! w00t! mostly cause they limit you from making only three set with the standard free account? Thats what suckered me in. sigh* I mean come on 3 sets! Pretty weak. Anyway I added some photos of my home and work offices. I will post more soon but you can at least you can see all the pretty macs I get to work on!
So I just realized I hadn't actually posted any of my latest work since I've been at the bhatch. So here is a quick little post with some of the sites I have built and launched in the last few months.
These are the two I am definatly most proud of but I assure you there has been alot of other work as well. Both of these site utilize alot of Fuse which I must say is the biggest savior of time when developing flash sites. I will try to post some info on what I have learned about it in the future. Also when I get a chance to update the blog design I will be sure to create a roll of links to the sites I have been developing.
Happy New Year everyone! I know I am a bit late but so far this year my life has been a busy mess. With CES being this week and one of my companies biggest clients being Uniden its been a hectic week. But that's not why were here is it.
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This post is just to hopefully give me something to look back at next year and say hey I did pretty good with my goals in 2008. One of my biggest goals is getting this blog moving and having it be a part of my weekly life. My hopes are to get a few of you flash guys out there following my very average life and helping me learn about life, flash and whatever we can accomplish together.
I have some big dreams and goals for myself this year. My first is to finish January 2008 on a high note with finishing all my freelance and moving forward with my personal projects. I think 2008 will be a year for me and my personal growth and hopefully helping some or you guys grow too. So here are some hopes and dreams for my 2008.
1. Learn... AS3 (and alot about coding for that matter)
2. Design... a better more integrated home for projectx4.com. This means a new site and blog design that will grow with me and utilize many of our available open source tools we have available at our finger tips. (i.e. swx, go, red5, etc...)
3. Blog... better and more often. This might be my hardest task but something I think that will be important to my growth.
4. Share... my code and experiences with flash. Cause its hard to do this all by yourself.
Ok so I might have to come back and edit this post since I haven't had much time to really review it or even write it but we will see. Ok so anyway, January might be a slow month for me here but I want to pick things up from here on out and make this a great year for all of us. I look forward to seeing what I can accomplish with you all this year! Thanks and good luck!
About Me
Name: Corban Baxter. I am a full time flash developer and lover of all technology, gadgets, art, photography, interface design and life in general.
I'm being a little trigger happy but it won't be to bad I promise! Thanks for the support.
