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Flash vs. HTML5 resolved
After giving this matter a great deal of thought, I think I have finally solved the entire problem/ controversy regarding the use of Flash instead of HTML5. Given this special day, I thought it appropriate to share my thoughts with the world. In a nutshell, these are completely different tools. […]
Read MoreAEL Impact Award
I received the Adobe Education Leader Impact Award last month. The actual plaque arrived today. Thought I would share this on my weblog. I am incredibly honored to receive this award from my peers. For those who are not familiar, the Adobe Education Leaders program spans many continents. We have […]
Read MoreAdobe Wallaby
Adobe recently released “Wallaby” via their labs website. This is a technology which converts Flash (.fla) files to HTML (HTML5). Of course, only modern browsers will be able to display the results (sorry IE 6, 7, and 8). The images rendered are SVG images (a fair number for shape tweens). […]
Read MoreHuman Error Terms
Just to be a bit different, I thought I would compile a list of human error terms. Used one of these a couple of days ago and began wondering what others existed. If you have more terms, add them to the list (via a comment). Use these at your own […]
Read MoreBook review published
Just received notice that my book review was published in the Feb. 2011 issue of CHOICE. For those who don’t have ready access to a copy, here is a reprint. 97 things every programmer should know: collective wisdom from the experts, ed. by Kevlin Henney. O’Reilly, 2010. 229p index ISBN […]
Read MoreHello World PaperVision Example
I took a little time this afternoon to modify an example of some materials provided by lynda.com in a PaperVision course. PaperVision is a class of Actionscript libraries which allow you to do some fairly magical things. Given that I have a limited amount of time (and really should be […]
Read MoreWe Meddle
I participated in an interesting presentation by Karrie Karahalios (University of Illinois) this morning concerning conversations, people and the relationships between them. examples of her current work can be found at http://social.cs.uiuc.edu/. Karrie presented many novel and interesting approaches. Included in her discussion was mention of a prototype website that […]
Read MoreSnowpocalypse
In honor of our major snow event starting today, I put together a little bit of Flash Actionscript code to generate even more snowflakes. It just populates a small array with one snowflake symbol which is re-sized and rotated and placed. I will be showing students in my CMWEB 225 […]
Read MoreMobile
Given that I have spent some time setting up a couple of development environments for mobile web applications, I thought it appropriate to step back and observe the overall process. These are just my thoughts. I would be most interested in comments from readers regarding these thoughts. First and foremost […]
Read MoreBlackberry Development
Last month, I spent some time investigating development of mobile applications with a focus on the Android market. Over the holidays, I finally had a chance to investigate development of mobile apps in the Blackberry market. These notes are a summary of my findings. Please note that I will not […]
Read MorePhoneGap
As an alternative to Flash CS5, one might wish to develop applications in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Towards that end, I installed PhoneGap on one of my Windows XP virtual environments. PhoneGap is an open source framework which allows one to develop applications in HTML and JavaScript and take advantage […]
Read MoreFlash CS5 and Android (part 2)
Now that I have a development environment for Flash and the Droid 2, I used the initial sample provided by Adobe as a starting point. Here are the steps I followed to get a working Android application deployed on the phone (total time less than 30 minutes – including development […]
Read MoreFlash CS5 and Android
Since I have a Motorola Droid 2 for development of Android applications, I thought I would take the device for a test drive. These are my experiences to get the environment working – your mileage may vary. I first needed to download the Flash CS5 extension for Air 2.5 (you […]
Read MorePhotoshop CS5 Mixer Brush
I was recently inspired by a lynda.com course to obtain a Wacom tablet and experiment using the mixer brush in Photoshop CS5. I am most impressed with the capabilities of the Wacom Intuos4 Tablet as an input device. What I particularly like is the ability to customize the input selections […]
Read MoreMobile Web Development
As the current semester draws to a close, I have started working on parts of a class on web design and development for mobile devices. I wanted to share some initial thoughts as I begin work on this course (which will focus on HTML5 since so many smart phones currently […]
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Just returned from another trip to Alaska a couple days ago. Thought I would document and include some photos. Hope you enjoy.
https://24ak.net/day-1-september-5-2024/
Happy birthday grandson. I’m very proud of you and what you are accomplishing.
Happy birthday grandson! I am very proud of you and all you are doing!
Congratulations to the winners of our web design and development competition. Post secondary winners - gold (Idaho), silver (Kentucky), bronze (Pennsylvania). High school - gold (Missouri), silver (Tennessee), bronze (Kansas). Well done!
Excitement and anticipation is building to learn the winners of our national web design and development competitions in Atlanta. State Farm Arena is packed.
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