Wow what a great day! Adobe announced that the HTC Hero supports Flash Player 10!
I’m excited about this finally coming to reality. The Android platform is really amazing and un-fortunately the timing is off to use Adobe Flash for implementation since I’m planning to submit the game to the developer challenge. Maybe next time!
When I left adobe a month or so ago to pursue my own intersests I really had just a couple ideas I wanted to run with, but now I’ve added a video game to my list of projects. I’m not at all concerned about the iphone and I may decide one day to port the game over to the iphone, but my interests and inspirations and motivation are aimed directly at the Android platform, I love the community and the users there vs iphone community. Hopefully going forward, I’ll use Flash over Java, but we’ll see so far I’m having a lot of fun and I’m even looking for a little help if you are in SF, hit me up!
Also, Google used Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator to design the templates for Android which totally blows. I can’t tell ya how much of a pain in the ass it is to have multiple applications open just to design your application for Android! I could go on and on and why this could have easily been done in Adobe Fireworks, but hey thats me, hehe. It’s a good thing while working on the Fireworks team we made the decision to support current photoshop and illustrator documents. I’ll try and slow down and take what I have so far and make a generic template for Fireworks users soon and if interest arrises more than I expected I’ll work on it sooner than later.
Recently I’ve been taking a lot of HD video using my Sanyo VPC-HD1000 and realized Picasa 3 wasnt picking up MP4 files nor were Quicktime movies displaying in Picasa so I was like WTF?! I started searching online help and found out you need to turn on the option in Picasa to display Quicktime movies and then MP4 files will work too. This was also after I converted MP4 files to test a couple video codecs to see if they would upload via Picasa so in the future hopefully Picasa team will enable that option going forward OR list MP4 as a separate format then just Quicktime.
Hopefully this tip finds you before you start converting MP4 files into various codecs/formats to see which ones work for Picasa 3 even though Picasa lists MP4 on the supported codecs.
I love playing Castlevania games from console to console ever since the old 8bit days. Currently, I’ve been playing The Dracula X Chronicles for PSP and love the art and game concept in terms of scrolling effects, background animations, and character movements.
Un-fortunately we’ll have to wait till next year for this game to come out. I’m still waiting for Starcraft to come out!
What console do you think Castlevania will look better on? X360? PS3? I really hope this game is all the hype its wrapped up to be!
Well it sounds amazing if that can really be true and a company called meraki is making it happen right now starting with the Mission district. I’m itching to ditch my ball and chain to Comcast which cons you into buying Standard/basic cable TV if all you want is broadband internet connectivity. Don’t get me wrong I like the offerings Comcast has with its services, but dammit all I want is broadband internet! I’ve also tried other services and nothing is faster than Comcast by far so here is to meraki and hope the best for them!
@ everyone that knows me or is a regular reader of my weblog, I salute you.
Friday is my last day at Adobe! Please don’t worry, Fireworks is not dead and never will be! I was a user before I worked at Adobe and I’ll be a user after I leave Adobe. I want to thank everyone for giving me the support and helping hand for taking on Macromedia and now Adobe specifically for Fireworks. It wasn’t easy to blog and surface from the bowels of Adobe and tell the world why I use Fireworks, sharing tips, workflows, and extensions. At the time I started a blog I was working in Macromedia Customer Care supporting Studio 8. I was originally hired to support Macromedia Studio 8, can you believe that?! Man…those were the days. I have wonderful memories of macromedians going above and beyond to help their people.
Over the course of my time at Adobe I felt my role become extremely transparent meaning I was taking almost anything that hit me concerning Fireworks. Yesterday, a co-worker called our breed “Pink Zebras” and I think that is an awesome term for someone that will put their heart and soul into a product. I played many roles ranging from Product Support Engineer/Quality Engineer/Evangelist/Product Manager/Application Architect and handling Developer relations. Some say I’m the heart of Fireworks and I’ll agree with them, but the pulse comes from the community.
When I first started at Macromedia in 2004, there must have been only 5 or 6 people I knew in the community that were evangelizing Fireworks. After using their extensions and reading their tips for so many years I felt it was my turn to step up and help out the community. Now we have hundreds of Fireworks evangelists around the world, I feel like it’s a secret network of underdogs working on super secret projects sharing information amongst themselves. I am constantly impressed with what you show me you created in Fireworks!
When I first started working at Macromedia, I had the honor to work with many amazing folks and the list goes on to the point that I just can’t list names. Words cannot express how much knowledge I picked up over the 4 and a half years I worked at Adobe.
Surprisingly enough, my passion still burns super bright after living and breathing Fireworks for so many years. If could embed myself into the software (like Tron?), drink the 36 hour cup of coffee (like MIB?) and work on Fireworks 24/7 I would, but alas I need to get out into the world and explore.
What am I going to do next?
I’ll be a part-time consultant and help teams or individuals build best practices and improve their workflows with Fireworks by finding ways to save time and money. The artist in me (thanks to my mom) will pursue painting with acrylics and professional photography in San Francisco. I’ll even contribute to Wordpress/Joomla/Drupal and other open-source frameworks. I also have plans to publish a couple books over the next two years and maintain http://www.fireworksguruforum.com and http://www.fireworksdesigner.com.
Going forward, keep an eye on the Adobe Fireworks team blog for “official” announcements and to stay up to date with what the Fireworks team is doing here: http://blogs.adobe.com/fireworks
I’d encourage you to read this article by David Hogue on Using pages, states and layers. He explains the differences very well and uses visual imagery to eliminate any confusion on what he’s describing.
I’m really enjoying the Android G1 device and with the G1 comes the YouTube app. So I naturally started searching for "Adobe Fireworks" in YouTube and surprised to see so much content for Fireworks that I then narrowed the search down a bit to "Adobe Fireworks CS4". Here are 20 YouTube videos for Adobe Fireworks users that I liked. I’m sure there are more, please share your favorites too! I wish I could play Korn when I’m giving a Adobe Fireworks demo.
Mariano Ferrario and David Hogue posted an informative article on how they use Dreamweaver and Fireworks at Fluid. They expose a lot of techniques that a lot of Fireworks may miss when busy working in the tool. From beginners to advanced you’ll pick up a technique or tip from this article!
Come help us squash some bugs tomorrow in the Flex SDK. Some find turning off the lights for one hour to be exciting, but let me tell ya this is much more fun and you’ll be using up 110% more energy than necessary, but hey all in the name of making the SDK even stronger!!
