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The next version of Yahoo Messenger in WPF

8 Jan

The next version of Yahoo! will be developed using Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF). It seems like the perfect fit for Apollo for other OS’s like Mac OSX and Linux. See a preview of the next Yahoo Messenger here: http://messenger.yahoo.com/windowsvista.php

Adobe’s New Icons

2 Jan

A friend of mine just showed me Adobe’s new icons for branding their next product line. The concept is cool. It reminds me of the Periodic Table of the Elements and obviously borrows some ideas from Macromedia’s old set of logos, making it easy for a consumer to determine that a product was part of [...]

Captain Morgan off to Yahoo!

13 Dec

A good friend and colleague of mine Scott Morgan has left us at Critical Mass and has taken a position as the Flash Manager at Yahoo! in sunny California. I’m really going to miss working with him, but I’m also very happy for him. This will be a great experience and I really can’t blame [...]

Back from Adobe Max 2006 in Las Vegas!

27 Oct

I just got back to Calgary from Max this morning. This was my first Max and I really enjoyed it. The “marriage” of Adobe and Macromedia seems to have produced some good looking children. Macromedia’s applications now have an Adobe feel to them and even Photoshop is sporting some new menu looks.

Programmer Meet Designer

16 Aug

I just stumbled across http://programmermeetdesigner.com/. This seems like a very useful site for those freelance jobs where one of your clients comes to you for a full site and you are only interested in doing the development side of things. Now you can team up with a designer who has little knowledge about development and [...]