Archive for August, 2005

Serenity

Just got back from a preview showing of Serenity, the new film by Joss Whedon, an extension of his TV show Firefly. A lot of people, myself included, have been waiting anxiously for this movie. I loved the TV show and was thrilled to get to see the movie a month early. And I can […]

Posted on August 31, 2005 at 11:37 pm by site admin · Permalink · One Comment
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Colorado Flash Developers Group Reborn

Allen Ellison, an active member of our Colorado Game Developers Association, has restarted the Colorado Flash Developer Group. Meetings a few years back were high on good ActionScript content. I hope to get to attend a few meetings soon.

Posted on August 31, 2005 at 7:28 am by site admin · Permalink · Comments Closed
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Abobe and Macromedia CEOs Speak, Say Nothing

An interview at Forbes.com is amazingly uninformative. They talked to both of these guys (separately, apparently) but didn’t really get any good information back. Nothing about the future of any of our tools. But then Forbes isn’t really about developers.

Posted on August 31, 2005 at 7:19 am by site admin · Permalink · One Comment
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Open Source and Director

Noticed the annoucement at Director Online concerning the open source OpenAL Xtra this morning: “OpenAL Xtra is a free, open source scripting Xtra for Macromedia Director that extends Lingo with the basic functions of OpenAL, a cross-platform 3D audio API. With the OpenAL Xtra, a Director developer can arrange sounds around a virtual listener in […]

Posted on August 30, 2005 at 6:34 am by site admin · Permalink · 2 Comments
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Dreamweaver 8 Coding and CSS

I use Dreamweaver MX 2004 to maintain all my sites. I don’t think I have ever touched the WYSIWYG aspects of it, just the coding. I code raw HTML, JavaScript, CSS and PHP with it. It handles all of those well, and allows my to sync my local and server copies of the files easily. […]

Posted on August 29, 2005 at 8:29 pm by site admin · Permalink · 2 Comments
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