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2011 – Fuck that noise. Thats the only summary I have to offer for a year , that for the most part, I’d like to forget or at least get an idea of the refund policy because surely I’m owed a damn price adjustment. I’m not bitter, I’m just being factual. 2011 did not deliver what it promised and in my mind, I’ve written it off as the decades biggest cock tease.

It’s always the simple, basic things we take for granted. Things like assuming someone knows not just to clear their cache, but knows how to. Things like people understanding the default colour for a visited link is purple, that browser chrome takes up resolution size or that comic sans is meant for 5 year old party invites and bad photoshop thought bubbles.

Its just a single day before I leave to attend Adobe Max in LA – and I’m starting to get stoked. I’ll be doing a bunch of things when I am down there – so you can find me at some point doing one of the following things:

FITC San Franciso, LET’S DO THIS PEOPLE!!!

It’s been a few years since the amazing city of San Francisco has seen a Flash focused conference – and finally, the good folks of FITC are bringing it back!  Mark off August 17 – 19 on your calendar now, as this is gonna be an event  you’ll want to be at, and hopefully remember

Long overdue, I seem to be bad at doing conference wrap ups. I need to be a bit better with this. I was honored to be a part of the Flash and The City Conference speaker line up, a conference in its first year. So firstly, a big thanks goes out to Elad Elrom for being fearless enough to invite me.

I’m constantly surprised by the amount of information that people put up on everyone’s beloved colossal waste of time , Facebook. When the new graph api was released, I wondered what kinda of data would be made available. I had thought about phone numbers, and not only a day later,  @snipeyhead posted this tweet http://twitter.com/snipeyhead/statuses/14638616942 , pointing to the ability to retrieve Facebook friends numbers.

It has been awhile since Branden and Josh released Hype. And its been just as long that I have been promising to get my hands dirty in the sandbox and just dig around and play with it.First off – if you haven’t played with Hype, you should. The examples are awesome – you can literally pick and choose parts from different examples to create your own mashup.

I was interviewed by the great peeps over at ActionScript Hero while at FITC Amsterdam this past week. I had mentioned that I loved chocolate, and the guys were sweet enough to bring me some fantastic swiss chocolate. Thanks for the gifts!!! You can check out the interview over at the site.

I’ll be presenting, for the last time, a presentation about the designer-developer dynamic entitled Can Play Well with Others at FITC Amsterdam this upcoming week. I have yet to post thoughts or ideas that drive this presentation, so I figured I’d throw them down alongside some links for various workflow tools, ideas etc. This presentation isn’t intended to suggest the best workflow options for teams, but is meant more as in introspective look at this relationship, point out common issues, suggest some tools, approaches that might help resolve that.

Good-bye 2009.

And good riddance. It’s oddly fitting that only a cliche could capture my sentiments to a year that, with such varying highs and lows, appeared to be a lil’ drama queen in full tantrum training.