Adobe abandons Freehand. Lest we forget Macromedia abandon Freehand when they released Fireworks. The last really good version was 9 (MS Word 6 good!). To me Freehand always felt more approachable, ‘alive’, Mac-like than the more stoic, snooty, Illustrator. As Adobe attention has shifted to selling to the Windows market – their Mac-ness has dramatically [...]
Adobe officially Announced CS3 today, but I assume some of us have already had our peek at the new features they were rolling out in new versions of Flash, Dreamweaver, Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, etc. (Sorry Freehand and ImageReady Fans.) If you managed to miss this somehow: http://www.adobe.com/creativelicense/ Go ahead and Preorder today, but I don’t [...]
Adobe has recently released its much talked about Apollo software, which is billed as “a development environment for developing cross-platform RIAs for the desktop.” This sounds REALLY interesting to me. I am also REALLY not a developer. So if one of you supersmart designer/developer types wants to try it out, I would LOVE to hear [...]
I had a request today to set up a Sharepoint site on our network to publish photos of internal events. Sharepoint has a rudimentary photo gallery, so we figured that’d suffice. But then we got stuck on adding the right permissions and, well, Sharepoint is never easy. Anyways, these are typically photos straight of a [...]
So I’m a Flash Guy, but here’s my current dilemma. Currently I have no site of of my own. I used to host JakeFreeberg.com off a machine at home, but that’s just a bad solution. It allowed me to play with WordPress and MovableType installs and learn a few things, I really need to put [...]
In my cursory understanding of both Groovy on Grails and JRuby, it see both are attempting to solve the exact same problem (make programming Java better) – but from 2 different approaches. Charles and Groovy team, please pardon my simplification: JRuby: I work in a Java environment but find more enjoyment writing Ruby. Groovy on [...]
This is the first of a new ongoing series here at MNteractive where I sit down with the companies in the Twin Cities’ web community. To kick it off, I talk with the Refactr team; Ben, Jesse, and Scott, to talk about how they’re building a software consulting company on the agile software development, Groovy [...]
First post here, for a longtime reader and sometime coffee-time attender. My company is hiring. I’m particularly keen to see the Web Designer position filled by someone with IA and usability interests and skills. Feel free to contact me privately at peter at peknet.com about my experience at Atomic Learning.
I played around with Pipes and aside from loosely matching iTunes songs with YouTube videos or loosely matching Flickr photos with NY Times articles, I’ve yet to ‘get it’. The interface itself is pretty – and seemingly powerful and simple. Reminiscent of Microsoft’s Visual Basic or Apple’s Automator. But in the end, Pipes is chartjunk [...]
Ah, clear skies…Universal Health Care…6 weeks vacation…Great looking furniture…Ikea… As if Scandinavia needed yet another reason why they have it so good. Still, they keep pumping out bullet points on the ‘pros’ column: Norway has just declared iTunes illegal. More specifically, they feel that proprietary DRM is bad for competition. And if DRM isn’t proprietary, [...]