Notes From the Lab

Lego and Unity

Don’t know how this escaped my attention, but my old buddy Tom Higgins of Unity (ex Macromedia Director ambassador) posted that Unity Tech signs a three-year deal with LEGO!. Ah — it’s funny; having recently been playing with Quartz Composer again, I’m feeling the need to delve back into 3d world…

Drupal as base system for Mobile

This is an interesting video — demonstrating how drupal can be used as the base system for iPhone/iPad/Android using Appcelerator Titanium — even if it’s painful to listen to the ‘I Got Drupal’ music video… The conference session can be found here from April 2010.

Flash Catalyst intro

A few good videos by Doug Winnie showing the steps from inception, wireframing to handing off the UI to a developer.

The power of motivators…

Great video from TED on the power of motivators –and specifically for those that need to think creatively; the old stick and carrot only works for tasks that require heads-down work…

Macbook Video

Well, the newly fixed Macbook, after spending a week getting it nearly back to the same state, realizing I’ve lost a lot of music I was working on (some of it was *really* good), and getting a weeks worth of work done, has decided to freak out with the video display…

Fun with power…

With my head down in the specifics of technology so much, I tend to forget about what all of this we use relies so much on.. power. I can debug and test, patch and peruse to my heart’s content, but if there’s no electricity there’s not much hope of anything happening… like a castle built […]

I am the Passenger…

I know that Dreamhost (my host provider) has supported Passenger for Rails apps running on Apache, but I’ve only gotten a taste of it lately, as I was setting up my development machine as a LAMP stack with Rails and now Passenger (including the MacOSX Passenger pane). I’m actually quite astounded how quick it is […]

Adobe sounds off on iPad….

Well Adobe did have a few things to say regarding the abscence of Flash Player on the iPad demo — but then again Christopher Cantrell wrote an article detailing how to get the multiple resolution out of the Flash to iPhone export…

JQuery Tutorials

Ah — something else I want to keep track of; from the same site I found the Adobe Air tuts sumup, some great examples of JQuery.