“Designers need somewhere great to work to do their best work - be it a desk with 4 huge screens and a mountain of technical equipment or a laptop sat in your garden it helps the creative process along. Here we scour the internet for examples of workspaces; some good, some bad, some cluttered, some clean - we take a nosey at where we people are doing their work …” - via tutorialblog.org

THIS PAGE IS FOR RANDOM LINKS — WHEN I AM TOO LAZY TO BLOG AND TOO LAZY TO POST TO DELICIOUS

PROGRAMMING
How to be a Programmer: A Short, Comprehensive, and Personal Summary
http://samizdat.mines.edu/howto/HowToBeAProgrammer.html

BOOKS

Byte-Size Flash MX: Adventures in Optimization
http://astore.amazon.com/bit101-20/detail/1904344097/104-0168346-9488736

EXPERIMENTS

Java, DHTML, C, all crazy cool
http://www.bodytag.org/

FLASH - 3D

Flash 9 - Bumpmap
http://www.unitzeroone.com/blog/flash_examples/flash_9_pv_3d_example_3d_bumpm.html

FLASH

How to create classed stage objects with an empty library
http://www.peterjoel.com/blog/index.php?archive=2004_01_01_archive.xml#107550841406346131

Attaching movieclip class without library symbol
http://swfoo.com/2004/01/attaching_movieclip_class_with.html

Invoking a dynamic class method
http://quantumwave.com/flash/dynamicMethod.html

Classes - http://www.createage.com/
http://www.actionscript.org/forums/showthread.php3?t=99139

Shared Libraries
http://www.quasimondo.com/archives/000227.php

Cheat Shet
http://actionscriptcheatsheet.com/blog/

Cammera Panning with Actionscript
http://weblog.motion-graphics.org/archives/2005/10/vcamv2_keeps_on.html

PHP

Introduction to PHP - Kirupa
http://www.kirupa.com/web/index.htm

TOOLS

Usefull Free Applications and Tools
http://weblog.motion-graphics.org/archives/2006/12/useful_free_app.html#more

COMMUNICATION

15 Minute Email Account
http://www.guerrillamail.com/

Jaxtr - Link to your Cell Phone
http://www.jaxtr.com/
http://www.bit-101.com/blog/?p=959

Spoofcard
Paris Hilton likely hacker of Lindsay Lohan’s Voice-Mail

ENTERTAINMENT

Joost - Internet TV
http://www.joost.com/
http://www.bit-101.com/blog/?p=958

So recently I went to a gallery opening in support of my talented skateboarder / filmer / bartender / photographer / producer cousin, Mr. Marshal ‘Stack’ Reid. While I was in there, I ran into the whole Manik / Goods / Luxe Riot crew and got the latest haps.

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“BumpTop aims to enrich the desktop metaphor with expressive, lightweight techniques found in the real world.”

I think it’s great, but while I’m wishing I could code my own version like the pros, this guy has a more humorous take on it. Seriously though, who coded this fine piece of AS?

Hektor is a “Spray Paint Output Device” - basically it’s a personal programmable graffiti tagger. Not only that but you can make your own, program it, and spray paint away - kick ass!

All you need is to grab a copy of Scriptographer, string up Hektor, and you’ll be on your way the throwing the coolest parties on the block.

Research via the web - the value of experience
I can’t say it’s all perfect, but chances are I’ve received most of my info from blogs/boards/forums. I bought a few books here and there, but nothing beats proven experience. Here are a few sites that made me jump on the blog-wagon

• Josh Spear
• Brand Spanking New
• Andre Michelle
• Quasimondo
• Reflektions
• Createage
• Processing
• Infosthetics
• Gizmodo
• Trends

Ok, I’ll say it again, FINALLY! Over the past year of working with Craig I have seen one version of the website prior to this one. While each has had its own style, I am happy to see ONE live. While we can all agree the content is top notch, the latest Section Seven Inc. website takes a fresh approach to content presentation that has caused some common points to crop up all over the net. Size, load time, project details, navigation. Which of these can be be overlooked and which can’t be ignored..

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