Ok, so as part of my new journey to figure out what direction I should take in my career, I stumbled on the idea of becoming a “Front End Developer”. Foolishly I thought, “How much could I possibly need to know to take on that roll?”. Well as it turns out you need to know a boat load of very different things and almost become a guru of all things web. So with the prospect of having to learn everything from jQuery, django, php, asp.Net, SQL and a host of other languages, I thought I should take stock of what I do know. Read More »

Ok, I guess I haven’t been posting as often as I should. But, with a 4 month old, a day job and a night job it doesn’t always leave time for things like daily blogging. So, I’ve decided to post a series of short updates about what I’ve been doing.

Rebuild of Point25.com
Not that many people would notice but the site has a slightly new structure. I’ve rebuilt Point25 using the Thematic Theme framework. It makes WordPress development really simple, fast and efficient.

Angry Farm Design
I’ve recently had the pleasure of working on initial graphics for Angry Farm. It’s a BlackBerry game very similar to Angry Birds.  This was a great opportunity and I’m happy to see that most of my initial graphics are in the final release. You can get Angry Farm on App World.

Playbook App-Development
Most of my time the last week or so has gone to setting up a development environment for the BLackBerry Playbook. As with most things BlackBerry, it takes patients to set up. Developing for the Playbook is pretty exciting as you can use Flash CS5 or Flash Builder and export using the Air / BlackBerry SDK. Take a look here to see how its done.

When I was just a meager student, in the early 2000’s, they were still teaching table based layout and inline formatting. We learned all about print, web, illustration, and design theory. We learned how to solve problems and find the real message in the noise. We learned how to be designers, not just how to use some applications.
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