Category Archives: Technology

Good bye 2010

As usual, it’s time to make my year end post. I’ll keep it relatively brief. A few changes this year. This spring, I got kind of fed up with Apple, their control-happy policies, and the general direction they are heading. … Continue reading

Posted in ActionScript, Flash, General, iPhone, Objective C, Silverlight, Technology, Windows Phone 7 | 8 Comments

Structure Synth 1.5.0 Released

This past year I gave my “Programming Art” talk at five different conferences: Multi-Mania Belgium, FlashBelt, and FiTC in Toronto, San Francisco and Edmonton. I think the two things that stood out the most for people were Context Free Art … Continue reading

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What is Flash?

This weekend I was at FITC Edmonton, where I presented my Programming Art session for the last time. I’ll be working on something new for next year. It was a fun conference. Very relaxed, and for the first time ever, … Continue reading

Posted in Flash, Technology | 43 Comments

Consumers vs. Creators

Great quote from Leo Laporte on this week’s Mac Break Weekly. this is the risk inherent in treating your users as consumers as opposed to creators – is that you could actually breed the creaters out of userbase and by … Continue reading

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On the “death” of Silverlight

This week, Microsoft announced their changing strategy regarding Silverlight. You can read more about that here: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsoft-our-strategy-with-silverlight-has-shifted/7834. [Edit: 10/01/2010] Note, this post just came out today, which clarifies things a lot. http://team.silverlight.net/announcement/pdc-and-silverlight/ [/Edit] The key points are that going forward, … Continue reading

Posted in Flash, Silverlight, Technology | 63 Comments

Java on OS X for the uninformed

By uninformed, I count myself as number one. I’m writing this because I didn’t really get the whole Apple deprecating Java situation. It sounded serious, so I educated myself a bit. This post might be helpful for people who don’t … Continue reading

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More thoughts on Mac

I’ve been thinking a lot more about yesterday’s thoughts, and it occurred to me I’ve maybe been thinking about it all wrong. I’ve been into computers since about 1986 when I gained control over a Commodore 64 at work. On … Continue reading

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Thoughts on the 10.7 App Store

Today Apple announced OS X 10.7, aka “Lion”. One line reaction: I’m really glad I switched back to Windows when I did. The most troubling aspect of the whole announcement was the unveiling of the OS X App store. Why … Continue reading

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Things I like this week

1. Internet Explorer 9. Go ahead, laugh. It’s a good browser. Just made it my default. 24 hours in and I don’t miss Chrome yet. 2. Fences. Organize your Windows desktop icons. Killer feature – double click desktop and all … Continue reading

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Kindle 3: Under the microscope!

Yeah, this took a while, but I finally got around to sticking my new toy under the ‘scope. To be honest, the differences between the Kindle 2 and the new version are amazingly apparent the first time you turn the … Continue reading

Posted in General, Kindle, Technology, Uncategorized | 16 Comments