It’s about 3/4 into day 1 at WordCamp Toronto 2008, and the momentum and excitement is outstanding. It’s the first WordCamp I’ve been too, and it’s great to see faces from all over North America, all the way from Waterloo, Ottawa and even Vegas! Joseph Thornley kicked off the day with a great presentation called [...]
Read more →I’ve been asked to speak at WordCamp Toronto this. I am very excited to see what others are saying and doing in the community. This should be a great 2 day event. I will discussing the power of plugins and how they can make or break a wordpress site. If there is time I may [...]
Read more →The original goal was to be a usable Flash IDE alternative, but has evolved into a cross-platform/cross-format animation tool, primed to support Animated GIFs, SWF (Flash), SVG Animations, and more. It is currently built using Javascript and PHP. The new Ajax Animator version 0.2 was launched on Sunday, August 8, 2008. Old Screenshots Application If [...]
Read more →Radiohead’s latest video for “House of Cards” was created using a truly unique technology that interprets information from the atmosphere to generate a stream of data that can then be represented visually using resources like Papervision3D and Processing. Google Code is hosting the Data Visualization application for you to explore the data through a 3D [...]
Read more →I am very happy top announce that the Opens Source Flash community has finally decided to put together a book. I know many people find it difficult to learn from examples, tutorials, etc, online. This book will definitely come in handy for rookies and pros alike. The authors of, “The Essential Guide to Open Source [...]
Read more →This is a very cool play on the standard tagcloud. The brand tags shows people a popular brand/logo, and lets them tag it. Imagine the kind or market research one could pull from this data, I’m sure there is lots of $$$ to be made on a clever idea like this. See it for your [...]
Read more →Found this video on Julie Giles blog from GreenHAT Digital.
Read more →Over a year ago I did a presentation at FITO on Open Source Flash on how to build rss/rdf/xml applications. I stumbled upon this video of my presentation on Google video, and then found out it has been posted on many other blogs. I thought it may be of interest to some of you. Enjoy! [...]
Read more →Our very own Brendan Sera-Shriar, Director of BackSpaceStudios, has been asked by RMI (Rich Media Institute) to instruct a full day workshop on WordPress design and development. The workshop will be a full day of WordPress2.5, focused on design and development. We’ll cover the essentials of setup, installation, and management. We’ll learn how to build [...]
Read more →I thought I had seen it all until Nick Stupa, a former student of mine, posted a link on my facebook profile about interesting wii remote projects… These are far more than interesting! This is some of the most promising and influential wii remote experiments I have seen to date…the possibilities are really endless! Johnny [...]
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