This is the blog of Brooks Andrus. Here, at irregular intervals, you may find digital noise centered around the activities of an early 21st century technologist. I work for TechSmith Corporation, but this web space and the views found on it are entirely my own.
I spent a little time checking out (high level) JavaFX multimedia capabilities. You can actually boil Sun’s entire JavaFX campaign down to a single 1 second sound bite (watch video excerpt below - full video found here).
While watching a Charlie Rose interview of Lawrence Lessig I was particularly struck by the description of our uneven legal / ethical handling of copyrighted text content vs digital media.
The final day of a conference is always brutal. Multiple nights of vendor supplied beer, limited sleep, and a steady river of technical information lead to, well, a sore ass and a limited attention span. Despite this the final day of MAX 08 was solid for moi. Here’s the round up.
I was blown away by [...]
Only one presenter gets a golden star from me–Michael Coleman’s (an After Effects Product Manager) efficient, yet droll session on After Effects expressions left me quietly humming. Expressions eliminate the tedium of keyframing and drive some seriously wicked effects.
I had high hopes for a session called “Next-Generation Flex Skinning,” but Ely had covered most [...]
Dear MeerMeer. You had me at onion skin. Adobe has a web service that will compare web pages, rendered back to you from the server via a virtualization farm, as they appear on multiple OS and browser combinations. Not only that, it will onion skin differences and allow you to debug between “frozen states” and [...]
Every conference has its share of turds and gems. Trying to stay glass half full, here were the list of gems I witnessed from day one at MAX.
Ely Greenfield - As the Oracle might say, “he’s got the gift.” I’d love some time in an osmosis chamber with this cat–it’d be guaranteed to take some [...]
Going out on a limb, but the best line from the MAX 08 Sneaks has to be:
“Adobe devs who get the most applause get an iPod. Loser gets shipped off to Microsoft.”
Good clean fun. ;-)
Caught this info via a Ryan Stewart tweet last week. Looks like YouTube supports up to 720p video if the source video is high enough quality.
Good to know. The real question is WTF Google? Why don’t we know what exactly all the requirements are? For instance, I work for a company that would be very [...]