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What's that startup worth?
YouNoodle just launched a 'Startup Predictor'. Answer a bunch of questions, and it will help you determine what the startup will be worth in 3 years. Should you take that project with that new client...?
-r
Posted August 7th, 2008 by R Blank
Budgeting Your Projects
Part 2 of my series of articles on 'Making Money' has been published on Opera's developer site. (You may recall Part 1, Pricing your work.) Entitled, Budgeting Your Projects, this article focuses on some of the key ideas, concepts and issues freelancers and contractors will face when managing the financial side of the business.
Posted August 7th, 2008 by R Blank
LAFlashapaloozastock III: 12.06.08
You heard it here first!
FITC Presents: LAFlashapaloozastock III
The Best Free Flash Event in the World!
No cost, no RSVP, plenty of information, networking, fun and partying!
All event info will be maintained here: http://www.flashapalooza.com
Posted August 6th, 2008 by R Blank
I am teaching a PHP/MySQL class
Posted August 4th, 2008 by gjenkins
I am teaching a 15 week ONLINE PHP/MySQL class at Long Beach City College.
The class is for 3.5 Units of college credit.
The class starts on September 9 th, but you would need to sign up now to get a seat.
See the news area of http://cbis.lbcc.edu for more in the NEWS section information.
This class is at California Community College prices.
-- Thank you
Professor Gerry Jenkins
This ain't your granddaddy's Acrobat
So, Adobe has recently unveiled the new Acrobat.com (beta). It's a pretty neat service, that has:
- Buzzword (web-based, collaborative word-processing)
- ConnectNow (ad-hoc web-meetings with Acrobat Connect Pro)
- CreatePDF (free, PDF conversion system)
- Share (like a drop-box for larger files for team collaboration, etc)
- My Files (a place to keep 'your' files -- the most boring feature of the bunch 
Posted August 4th, 2008 by R Blank
ImaginationLand uncut
SouthPark has released the uncensored, director's cut of the ImaginationLand Trilogy online, for free. Pretty neat.
-r
Posted August 2nd, 2008 by R Blank
Kevin Bacon 2.0
It turns out that Microsoft has used a very large-scale analysis of IM traffic to 'prove' that the people are really 6 degrees of separation from everyone else in the world -- or, to be specific, 6.6 degrees.
Posted August 2nd, 2008 by R Blank
DirectDaniella
A friend of mine worked on Direct Daniella for Taco Bell and is now up for an award in the FlashForward Festival. I checked it out -- and it's a pretty neat app. You get to pick the scene and locale of a photo-shoot for this model.
Posted August 1st, 2008 by R Blank
Performance of Bitmap vs. vector animations -which is the best technique?
Posted July 25th, 2008 by HalfJack
Hey all,
I need a sanity check-
I have just finished a series of performance tests in flash, comparing framerates for vector and bitmap art, and flipbook vs tweened animation. My results a simple 100x200 walk-cycle were really surprising to me :
Comparing (in order of speed)
No July LAFU Meeting
Just a quick announcement to the community that there will be no LA Flash User group meeting this Wednesday, July 16th. We're taking July off in honor of.... well, in honor of the fact that we can. I hope you all are enjoying your summers, and I look forward to seeing each and everyone one of your cherubic faces at our next meeting on August 20th.
Posted July 14th, 2008 by R Blank
