Author Archives: Jake Freeberg

I’m a Flash Developer, currently on Contract with Northwest Airlines, based here in the Twin Cities.

Minnesota Electronic Theater 2006 (UPDATE)

Just heard this was going on Thursday.
http://www.met2006.org/
Sounds like a Fun Free event.
I rarely hear much from the SIGGRAPH chapter here in the cities, but this sounds like they are active. I’d be interested to see what type of work falls into such a broad ”Computer Graphics” category. I assume it’s mostly 3D, but I’d bet there are a [...]

Best Cheap Beer in the Cities

 
 I promise not to make posts that were this far off topic often, but this was really interesting to me and I think others might be interested as well.
My Cousin and her many of her friends over at eightandfive.com got together last weekend and did a Blind Taste Test of Cheap Beers available in the [...]

New Minneapolis Based Advanced Flash/Flex Programmer’s Group Forming

Danny Patterson left this post on the FlashMN mailing list Yesterday:

We’re forming a new group in the twin cities that is focusing on Flash and Flex programming topics. This group is in no way trying to take over the FlashMN group, but should be seen as a compliment to an already great Flash group. The [...]

ThisLife.org much better then it used to be…

I’ve been a Big Fan of the NPR show This American Life for a long time.
I’ve always liked the fact that they let you listen to every show they’ve ever made for free as long as you streamed it off the web. The only problem was you had to use Real Player, which we all [...]