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Just a heads up that my old band has a facebook page now, we have a buncha videos and songs over at http://www.facebook.com/pages/Mercury-Charm-Offensive/238338422876882

In addition to running two shows on Codebass Radio (one music, one tech talk), I'm on the management team.

I was just going back through the archives and digging up screenshots of old portfolio sites and CD's.

So, my brother in law needed a website.

My wife, author of "Maya's Vacation" needed to send a bookmark to press in order to advertise her book.

NCDevCon is an awesome annual conference in Raleigh, NC.

Runtime Expectations is a live talk show on software development.

My wife runs a restaurant and cocktail review website called "The Gourmez".

A project still in progress.

I used to run the Raleigh Durham Adobe User Group.

2024 Update: Boo!

My friend Jason Burke had asked me to help him on his children's show spoof he was working on for his senior thesis at Emerson.

Back when I ran the Raleigh Durham Adobe User Group, I was a one man show.

Some time ago, I joined a "Subversive Humor" meetup.

I had a big problem today with backwards compatibility and the Flex 4.5 SDK today.

This is just a short post - mainly for myself to remind me of the opensource awesomeness that was just released.

The title of this post is what I googled endlessly for like 2 hours trying to figure out how to do this.

Next week, my user interface user group, tri-me.org will be having our first meeting of the year.

Finally!

For the 2010 360Flex in Washington DC, I was asked to make a promotional flyer for their after hours music extravaganza.

I just had to add a drop down list into my Flex 4 project, but I wanted to be able to multi-select the items, and add some custom logic.

After watching Simon Free's Papervision demo at NCDevCon today, I just had to post an old demo I did when I first got my hands on Papervision a couple of years ago.

No, I didn't accomplish the mythical Flash autotune in time for my "Audio Manipulation in Flash and Flex" presentation for NCDevCon this Sunday.

Just wanted to post a quick update that I'll be speaking at NCDevCon with a hands on Flex 4 session on Saturday with Adrian Pomilio, and then on Sunday with a Flash Audio session.

A friend of mine recently tweeted that found that he could create custom events for his project, but he found it rather mysterious - and he didn't really understand what he was doing even though he followed the instructions and was able to make them work…

So this is my intro to using Pixel Bender - if you don't know what it is or why to use it check out the documentation or my first post.

Hey everyone, I just gave a Pixel Bender presentation at our local Adobe User Group yesterday.

This is my last in a series of blog posts on Pixel Bender.

In my previous post, I talked about using Pixel Bender in the way it was intended.

Lately, as I've been progressing with a Flex 4 based application which is largely an audio visualizer, I've felt the pain of slow response times from my UI.

I just came back from a long weekend trip to Orlando, Florida.

Oh so long ago (2001 maybe?)

Demo here, view source for code (view source for code, and who knows what bugs there are) I'm getting into unfamiliar territory these days with exploring sound in Flash.

Last year I was experimenting quite a bit with Flash's computeSpectrum functionality.

Just writing a short post to tout theWB.com which went live today after a makeover.

This is the last part of my recent musings.

Last Thursday my Hauppauge Dual Hybrid HDTV Tuner card came for my computer.

In my part one of this post, I took a look at how digital video and audio recorders and portable devices have changed the way I consume and perceive media.

Tivo and iPods (or more generally a digital audio players and a digital video recorders) have changed the way we consume media.

Or should I say....BIZKIDZ.COM!

It's been a busy past month just getting a new job and a new car - I felt like I didn't have time for anything.

Like many of these heavily animated and interactive games, Magic Numbers was developed while working for 360KID.

I've been playing a bunch with physics engines for the last few weeks.

So it would appear that visual ambiance in music games can be pretty important.

This was a quick little freelance Flash project.

title: "Scrapbook Creator" date: "2008-09-01" categories: "portfolio" "development" "flash" "web" This was another project that I think was a proof of concept and not for any particular client.

OK, I will be very interested to see how this plays out.

Well, I've been doing some research lately.

The 2008 Codie Awards have been announced.

Still waiting on the final video, but this is part of my March Madness of projects.