This post is about understanding the value of maintaining a connection to our history in a world where software and hardware change is a regular occurrence. I have had a hard time letting go of my 12" PowerBook G4. There is something about this little laptop that deserves more than being thrown in the trash [...]
You know what makes a toolkit great? When it does what it's supposed to. It seems like I have to learn a major toolkit for every job I get. For example, for the General Electric work I learned three.js, Unity3D, Adobe Script (for After Effects & Photoshop), among others. When you just hit the road coding and [...]
"Just to respond to your question a little bit; not many people - not even pro's - would invest the time or trouble it would take to do here what you want done - it's not worth it. Obviously it CAN be done, but it's not sensible. The big question is who would even [...]
UPDATE: I have created an additional Max For Live device that makes this whole setup quite a bit easier to use by customizing push's grid and eliminating the laptop from the performance. I'll add another post with an easy to digest video once I get it totally refined.This post is the culmination of a few [...]
I have a dream.... Whenever I come across a new toolkit, find it's feature list appealing, and starting looking deeper at the documentation, I have a dream of what I want it to be. Interestingly, the dream is almost always the same regardless of what domain the toolkit addresses - mobile development, video game programming, [...]
There is a small window between learning and knowing where it's possible to surprise yourself with a good design. Sometimes you are confronted with a new set of technologies and a new problem domain, and armed with a solid background in the fundamentals software engineering. You lay out the plans and begin work taking the [...]
The best thing about the iPad. Man, we dev monkeys have known for a long time that something like the iPad was a good idea. Remember how touchscreens were like this mystical feature into a world of futuristic interfaces for so long? Like how engaging warp nine was totally the shit in conceptual whiteboard land [...]
We've been having a hell of a (great!) time stitching together a new creative process with a new team here in the office. The company is already producing some really great 3d models, and I have been hired to head up the software effort to make those models interactive. Go touchscreen, go!Something that has struck [...]
- Create an automator application with the following AppleScript and save it somewhere.on run tell application "Finder" try activate set frontWin to folder of front window as string set frontWinPath to (get POSIX path of frontWin) tell application "Terminal" activate [...]
