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Archive for March, 2009
Peace, Love, Print! Creative Media & Print Expo '09

Peace, Love, Print! Creative Media & Print Expo ’09 is the premiere, laid back and freak out print conference where I will be coveing mind blowing features in Adobe Creative Suite 4. It’s being held in Phoenix (April 9th) and Denver (May 12). If you’re in the area come join me for some serious Adobe [...]

Passing Variables from HTML to Flash (flashVars)

First of all, why the heck would you want to do this?  A couple of reasons: It gives the ability for someone else to modify the Flash content without knowing Flash! It keeps you from making many different swfs for projects that are highly similar.  i.e. If you need to create many different video players [...]

Sony Imageworks Interactive Seeks Senior Designer

I recieved this position from Tiffany at Sony Imageworks. Seems like a pretty cool position so I thought I’d pass it along: The position is based in Culver City California. Basic Description: The Senior Designer is responsible for the original design and maintenance of Sony Pictures web-based projects, client projects, and other design elements, including [...]

State of the Computer Book Market (O'Reilly)

Here is an interesting article about the state of the computer book market and some current trends in technical knowledge and the popularity of computer languages. You will see that C# has been steadily growing year after year while Java has been going in the opposite direction during the same period. PHP, ActionScript and Python are [...]