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Flying Bird Adobe Illustrator & Flash Tutorial

A two part video tutorial from Layers Magazine. The video shows you the process of drawin the bird in Adobe Illustrator and using Adobe Flash to animate its wings. Part 01, Part 02.Vectot Art (translate)

The Ethics of Screencasting in the Read-Write Web Era

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. Essentially Lessig questions why we treat the use of digital media differently from text. [...] (translate)

Setting the spread method on a linear gradient fill in Flex Gumbo

The following example shows how you can set the spread method on a Flex Gumbo LinearGradient fill object by setting the spreadMethod property on the LinearGradient class to one of the constants in the flash.display.SpreadMethod class. Full code after the jump. (translate)

Notes from Adobe installer management

As I mentioned recently, I asked some of the Adobe staff responsible for designing, building, and managing the company's installers to provide feedback on the concerns and criticisms we've heard regarding CS3 and CS4.  In this post's extended entry, first Barry Hills & then Eric Wilde from the Suite engineering group share their thoughts.  --J. (translate)

Planning Ahead: Resilient Load Variations in Distributed Stream Processing

This post is part of a series of posts relating to distributed system design that I'm completing as part of my Computer Science MS program at BYU. Background Stream processing systems are used to process data and provide low latency data derived from source streams. Good examples of this processing include stock market updates, highway traffic data, and network traffic analysis. Stream processing systems take a stream of data and run it through a series of operations. Most of these operations perform data conversions or calculations/reductions of the source data. The final result is either a new data stream or (translate)

Use ThunderBolt in Cairngorm application to log messages and debug

Here’s a tip regarding logging messages in Cairngorm application. I would recommend using ThunderBolt with Mozilla firebug. ThunderBolt is a light weight logging mechanism and very simple to implement; on every user gesture add a logger message during the following methods: execute, result and fault. To use ThunderBolt just place the ThunderBolt swc in [...] (translate)

Fly Clear

I've mentioned this service before - $199 / year to skip the lines at airport security (you don't skip the security checks, just the lines) - and here's a way to get a month free: use this refer-a-friend code when you sign up - DSCAM1163375. The pric... (translate)

Space City on Groups.Adobe.com!

Space City Adobe User Group is now listed on Adobe's new Groups site http://groups.adobe.com ! Check it out! http://groups.adobe.com/groups/81e1f7446d/summary The RSS Feed from www.spacecityaug.com blog is fed directly into this site so we can promote our meetings in both places. (translate)

December Meeting

We will not have our regularly scheduled meeting in December. Instead, we will just have an informal get together/happy hour. WHEN: December 11, 2008 4:30pm-6:00pm . WHERE: Tentative place Boondoggles Pub & Pizza Seabrook, Texas Map and Directions on http://www.boondogglespub.com/ (translate)

Meeting Schedule for Holidays

No Regular Meeting Scheduled for November and December due to Holidays However, At the last meeting we discussed only having one, more informal, party instead of a meeting. I propose we just meet at Boondoggles, a local pub on NASA Parkway, for happy hour on December 11, 4:30-?. Our sponsor, Fusionpage.com, will purchase the first couple pictures of beer and we'll be giving away up to $2400 in Adobe software just in time for Christmas! Only speakers from the July-Oct meetings are eligible for the drawing. Please comment if you like the idea of meeting at Boondoggles or if you (translate)

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