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Apple Internship - The Offer
Apple decided to offer me an internship this summer. I’m headed to Cupertino (San Jose), California from May 24 – Aug 20. I will be doing software development for them, more specifically Adobe Flash, Java, and iPhone development for their retail point of sale division. I was interviewed a total of 5 times, once on campus, two phone interviews, and two iChat video interviews. It was quite a process.
When the official offer … Continue Reading
Tags: google, google docs, note taking, notes, notesync
NoteSync with Google docs Desktop Beta has been released today! NoteSync lets you take notes fast and sync them with your Google docs account. Keyboard shortcuts like CTR-L put your cursor in the search bar to easily search for notes or create a new note. Automatic syncing happens every minute or when you feel like it by pressing the sync button. Offline mode fully supported.
Aspire - Product Designer
Aspire has revolutionized the way youth sporting pictures are taken. Providing a green screen allows the players and the parents to design their own posters, shirts, and even trading cards. At Rain I was the primary Flex developer for Aspire’s product designer. The designer allows users to design custom posters, shirts, trading cards, team pictures, blankets, and other products.
After being in beta since July 2008, we released the major release of Aspire in September, 2009.
Aspire’s business model is unique. … Continue Reading
Photo Scaled 200% inside ImageWell. 50 dpi.
Custom book builders are great rich internet applications that we’ve made at Rain. One core component of custom book builders is allowing users to upload their own photos. The most common user error is uploading and using a photo that cannot be printed at a high quality print resolution. It is our job to let the user know if the image he or she has selected for a particular ImageWell (a rectangle where a photo can be … Continue Reading
Thanks to everyone that came to the Adobe Flex presentation at BYU. It turned out great. Many people learned what Flex can do and found solutions to ideas they had. Thanks to Rain Interactive for sponsoring the event with Papa Johns Pizza. Special thanks to the Web Startup Group for hosting the event. They recorded my presentation and have my slides hosted on their site.
Adobe just produced Tour De Flex an AIR app that allows you to tour all of Flex’s features. Great for those who are curious about what flex can do. For developers, this tool is great because it allows you to actually see the code to produce the feature that is shown.
Adobe states that Tour De Flex has three primary features:
In doing some research on filters in SVG I came across some new information regarding SVG. The reason that they have upgraded/changed focus for the SVG format to FXG was triggered when developing Thermo. They started using SVG and then they realized how difficult (and eventually deemed impossible) it was to easily translate SVG to Flash smoothly. So they developed FXG for Thermo & Flex 4 to replace SVG. Now we can just use FXG’s DropShadowFilter instead of copying the bitmap, offsetting it, applying a color fliter, blurring it, and then blending it.
What is FXG?
“FXG 1.0 … Continue Reading
Adobe Student Rep for RIA
Yesterday I was welcomed as an Adobe Student Rep for Rich Internet Applications. I am excited to get the Flex community going at BYU and educating other students about what Adobe Flex is and what an RIA is. Since I do this for work, I find it is easy to share my passion and my love for it with others.
I created a user group for BYU students. If you are a … Continue Reading
Photoshop.com is the solution for online photo storage, photo back ups, and basic image editing in one location. Photoshop.com hooks into all my facebook and flickr photos and allows me to make touch ups like remove red-eye. Within minutes I had uploaded an album of pictures and had edited them. I was then able to share this album with friends and make it public at http://satara.photoshop.com
Photoshop.com features:
Grant Skinner created an amazing regular expressions tester which is available as a web application or as a desktop air application.
This application allows you to create regular expressions and then test them on the fly. I highly recommend downloading this application for testing your regular expressions. I used this to successfully debug some regex parsing errors taking an SVG into flex.