April 10, 2008
Jam Session starts in 10 minutes!
We have a special guest in the house today, Aaron Beall will be joining the Fireworks Jam Session in person! Not sure what we will do, but the idea is just to have an open discussion with us and Fireworks. We can do demos based on your question or reproduce an issue if you found something thats frustrating you or just stop by and show something cool you made in Fireworks/Web Suite. See ya in a few minutes. Remember to access the Connect room by clicking the link on the left nav...
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April 09, 2008
Adobe TV! (and me)
Visitors that stop by Adobe TV will be welcomed by a ton of professionally cut videos on anything Adobe and one video is my friends and I playing disc golf in the "After Hours at Adobe" series. If you are into disc golf and live around San Francisco, you can usually find me on the disc golf course in Golden Gate Park! :-)
Wow...I never thought I'd talk about disc golf on my blog or at Adobe cause I told myself to keep it everything related to Fireworks...so technically this is legit since the video shows me working at my desk on Fireworks, no? ;-) I learned to play disc golf at an early age and always found regular "golf" to be rather boring if you ask me. Over the years I've really grown to appreciate the sport and thankful to play at our local disc golf course in Golden Gate park. Please give disc golf a shot if you havent played before!
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April 04, 2008
Welcome Doug Winnie to the Blogosphere!
Please welcome Doug Winnie to the blogosphere at Adobe! I work closely with Doug and glad to see another Adobean passionately wanting to share their knowledge and resources via blogging. As Scott Fegette introduced me to the blogosphere awhile back I feel introducing Doug to you all is highly beneficial for many reasons. Doug works at Adobe as a Group Product Manager with an achieveable goal which is to increase productivity and develop new workflow opportunities between our applications here at Adobe. If you enjoy improving your workflow then Doug's blog is definitely one to bookmark. Going forward we will see a lot of great tips and resources if not workarounds to common tasks that may seem impossible.
Welcome Doug! :-)
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April 03, 2008
Watch the recording of today's jam session. Tim demos kuler 2!
In today's jam session Tim Strickland (Sr. Computer Scientist in the Emerging Creative Technologies Group and lead developer for kuler) stopped by and gave us an in-depth demo of kuler and how he used Adobe Fireworks CS3 to rapidly prototype kuler 2. He also shared a lot of tips and resources and how developers can tap into the kuler API to extend the creativity into their own developments.
Connect recording:
http://my.adobe.acrobat.com/p63457132/
Thanks Tim!
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Jam Session starts in 10 minutes!
Hey everyone -
Finally back in action after traveling for a few days and ready to meet up in the Jam Session.
Also, if you havent seen Smashing Magazine's roundup of Fireworks tutorials and resources, go check it out.
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March 13, 2008
FireworksGuru: Demon Towers
Check out Demontowers.com for Free Flash and Fireworks Extensions! The developers there are awesome and can stir up some really cool extensions. There's also an update to the Twist and Fade command that ships with Fireworks CS3.
The Demon Towers design is clean and slick. I'm a big fan of dark layouts created in Fireworks and would vote for Halloween to be a once-a-month event if I was elected President. :)
Steven Grosvenor from Demon Towers joined the Fireworks Jam Session today and what a wonderful session with Steven. He showed us the behind the scenes magic around the site architecture and he even fixed a bug with the Newsletter submission. Not only is Steven a strong Fireworks user, but he also codes like a madman with HTML/ActionScript/JavaScript/.NET/C# creating various chemical compounds to construct insane extensions for Flash and Fireworks.
I love the extensibility layer with Fireworks and Flash. Why bug engineering when you can make the panel yourself and solve your own workflow issues? Use Flash/Flex to build the User Interface via ActionScript and make calls to the JavaScript API in Fireworks, its that easy! Well I'm pumped up today, Steven just made my day. :-)
Here's the recording if you have time to watch today's session.
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Fire on the Bay meeting reminder: Next Tuesday at Adobe
This will be a fun and informative presentation presented by Tim Strickland. Tim works at Adobe in the Emerging Creative Technologies team as a Sr. Computer Scientist. As the lead developer that used Fireworks CS3 to prototype kuler 2 this will be a presentation you do not want to miss if you are a new or existing power user.
Ya know, it's hard for anyone to give Fireworks credit cause Fireworks is used almost like you would do paper prototyping which is at the beginning of a project. I know a ton of companies that use Fireworks for prototyping and design (not only web work) that can't talk about how they use Fireworks cause the project is highly confidential until the project is complete.If you are using Fireworks today to prototype screen designs for devices, software, web sites/web apps and can talk freely about the projects, please contact me.
RSVP for the meeting at Fire on the bay or it will be hard to let you into Adobe at last minute.
Also just realized the Fireworks Jam Session will start in 50 minutes! Click on the graphic on the left nav to join up at 10am PST.
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March 06, 2008
Rich Symbols, Contest and Jam Session
Sarthak on the Fireworks team pushed out an informative article in the Fireworks Developer Center around Rich Symbols and how to take advantage of the API to enhance current behaviors. It's an excellent read and gives you something to chew on when you think about making your custom library of Rich Symbols.
Enhancing rich symbols in Fireworks CS3
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/fireworks/articles/enhancing_rich_symbols.html
Fireworkszone is having a tutorial design contest and if you design the coolest tutorial they are offering prizes, go check it out for more details. The contest announcement seems kind of buried on the Fireworkszone site so the chances of winning look high. ;-)
The Fireworks Jam Session is today at 10am PST sharp! Get your video cams/headphones ready to jam about anything related to Fireworks or just come and attend.
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February 28, 2008
New Fireworks Sample on Fireworks Developer Center
Just noticed Rodger's sample is live on Adobe.com, check it out when you get a chance!
Pen and gradient tools showcase
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/fireworks/samples/pen_gradient_showcase.html
Reminder: Attend the Fireworks Jam Session in one hour, click the link on the left nav!
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February 21, 2008
Reminder: Fw Jam session in one hour!
Fireworkers -
This is an informal jam session where you can show off some work, report bugs and we'll look for workarounds and overall jam with me on anything related to Adobe Fireworks. (Click the Jam session link on the left to join up)
Also, a new Fireworks CS3 Article went live yesterday thanks to the DryIcons team!
Creating an icon in Fireworks
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/fireworks/articles/creating_icon.html
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