I can’t believe this hasn’t been talked up. I was just taking a look at the FiTC schedule for this April, and noticed John Maeda is speaking.
http://www.fitc.ca/speaker_detail.cfm?festival_id=12&speaker_id=9331
If you don’t know who John Maeda is, read the bio. That’s pretty cool.
Man, I read his book some years ago – Medea on Media – great read! I especially loved the foreword about Tofu making 🙂
Yet another good excuse to go to Canada then? WebDU in March, Toronto in April… Looks like a great spring!
J
Keith
I’ve been following your blog and lab (until the lab died) for some time now. Love your work! I actually moved to Boston recently and have been meaning to hit up one of the Boston developer meetings, just haven’t had the time yet. Anyway, I’m working on a MacIntel macbook and have recently been trying to get a decent development environment set up. I ended up setting up Parallels after reading your recent post, and used that to compile down AS3 using mxmlc.exe. So I can compile tiny little AS3 projects, but can’t seem to find any useful documentation on how to turn this into a larger more structured flash dev environment. I set up FlashDevelop on the windows partition in Parallels, but now can’t seem to figure whether or not I’ve got that up and running properly. I’m having trouble actually getting flashdevelop to find the AS3 classes, I think. I wanted to test some of this stuff by looking at some of the recent posts in your new lab, but the lab, it’s dead! I’m not really sure what kind of help I’m looking for, maybe just anywhere I might find your most recent lab stuff’s source to get a feel for how you structured everything. Anyway, thanks for your help in advance, and thanks for the inspiration you have brought to this community for years.
tried the beta of Flex Builder for Mac?
He’s here locally Keith, if your intrigued you should look him up. He was at design 2.0 not too long ago. Hilarious eccentric speaker.
I know he works just down the street from me. We even shop at the same Japanese market, but I’ve yet to bump into him. 🙂
Thanks guys. I can’t imagine why Flex Builder for Mac hadn’t occurred to me.. It seems to be the most logical step… I had had difficulty with the Flash 9 preview on the MacIntel, maybe that got associated with Flex Builder in my head.
Either way, thanks! I hope you folks will be hearing from me soon. I’ve been a bit busy, but I’ve got some mildly interesting flash stuff I’ve been cooking up lately and I have been meaning to get it all posted on this interweb.
Cheers!
John Maeda just spoke here at Yahoo! on his new book “Laws of Simplicity”. It was an excellent presentation and it’s great he’ll be at FITC this year.
I saw him speak a few years ago at AGIdeas (Melbourne, Australia). He was an amazing speaker and really worth seeing live as his vitality and earnest love for his art is really infective.
Very excited about seeing John Maeda in Toronto and I “think” it is the good work
of Mr David Girolami who is head of FITC communications (and an all round great guy)
a few new people I’m excited to see like Chris Allen and obviously Meada
and some good friends (and other influencial high calibre speakers)
who I’ll enjoy raising my glass with (in no particular order)
GMUNK
Beau Ambur
Craig Swann
Mike C & Mike D
Brendan Dawes
Chafic Kazoun
Glyn Thomas
Ron Gervais
Hoss Gifford
Colin Moock
James Eberhardt
Paul Ortchanian
Robert Penner
Robert Reinhardt
Grant Skinner
John Grden
Mario Klingemann
Stacey Mulcahy
John Nack
Thierry Loa
Phillip Kerman
Tim Willison
Ben Fry
Justin Everett-Church
and some guy I’ve heard great things about
called Keith ;o)
things are really kicking off this spring in Toronto
also with ICE07, FITC
& Toronto tech week
good times ahead 🙂
“a few new people I’m excited to see like Chris Allen”
eh… don’t get excited about Chris. He’s way overrated. 😉
“a few new people I’m excited to see like Chris Allenâ€
“eh… don’t get excited about Chris. He’s way overrated. 😉 ”
LOL, yeah, wicked ovah-rated! (That’s Boston talk BTW)
Anyway, FITC is going to be awesome as usual! Simon, I look forward to that toast; I will be there for sure.