Happy New Year!

Posted by Jason - 2008/01/01 - 13:50:25 - in Recent Work, Miscellaneous

2007 was a very busy year for me…and it seems most of that boiled down to the last few weeks of December. The biggest news of the year, I’m heading back to Michigan next month! I’ve accepted a position with Pivotal Communications, an interactive media studio and communications firm located in Kalamazoo. As the new Senior Interactive Developer, I’ll be responsible for  shaping the company’s framework for development, formatting each interactive project’s architecture and user interface design, and directing the focus on new technology R&D for future ventures. Very exciting!

In other news, I finished a couple of websites in the past few months. One is just the beginning, but it’s the start of a site for my father’s business. A lumberyard located in Hartford, MI (www.redarrowlumber.com). This year, I hope to add a customer registration feature for special coupon offers, an email newsletter CMS, and a DIY Q&A section (that’s a lot of initials).

The other website was for a skateboard brand in Australia, Folklore Skateboards. The biggest feature behind this site, is the custom CMS (content management system) that allows the people at folklore to handle all of their own content updates. Seeing as how the site just went live this morning, there isn’t a lot of content yet…but check back often as I think it’ll grow quick.

明けましておめでとうございます!2007年はとても忙しい一年でした。最後の一ヶ月間が特に大変でした。年末の一番大きいニュースは、来月アメリカに帰る事に決めました。地元の近くにあるメディア会社のオファーを受け入れ、3月に入社します。そして、上記のリンクで最近完成したホームページが見れます。このホームページに、お客さんがすべてのコンテンツを自分で管理できるために、カスタムCMS(内容管理システム)を作っておきました。まだアップしたばかりなので、まだ内容が少ないようだが、そのうち増えるでしょう。

一応日本語でも...

Posted by Jason - 2007/11/10 - 21:00:24 - in Miscellaneous

このブログを日本から見て下さっている方が結構いらしゃるので、日本語も頑張って書いておきます(しかし、ネイティブ・スピーカーじゃないので、間違などを許してください m(_ _)m )!

I’ve decided to try and post as much as I can in both English and Japanese. Peace.

Vector Magic

Posted by Jason - 2007/11/08 - 18:43:38 - in Miscellaneous

I came across the following link through one of the forums I frequent. It’s a pretty incredible vector tracing system for creating vector images from bitmaps. I may never trace another client’s logo by hand again!

http://vectormagic.stanford.edu/

上記のリンクでベクター・イメージをビットマップから作れる。Illustratorのライブトレースよりもすごい!今現在、英語版しかないけど、試してみてください。

Colin Moock’s From the Ground Up Tour

Posted by Jason - 2007/11/05 - 1:01:18 - in ActionScript

World famous ActionScript guru, Colin Moock, will be hitting Tokyo during his whirlwind, world-wide ActionScript 3.0 promotional tour on January 15, 2008. Best of all, the full-on, 9-hour seminar is free!

For details, check out: www.event-web.net/as3

If things go anything like the seminars State-side, you’d better sign up fast. Openings won’t last long!

Flash ActionScript 3.0 をもっと詳しく知りたいなら、上記のイベントに参加した方がいい。コリン・ムックさんが無料ゼミを東京でやってくれるみたいで絶対いい勉強になる。上記のリンクで申し込みができる。

PC Remote Access

Posted by Jason - 2007/10/28 - 22:15:13 - in Miscellaneous

My friend Greg turned me on to a free service called, ‘LogMeIn.’ It’s basically an online GUI for remote access to a registered PC. I’m going to give it a try tomorrow as I have a friend who is always asking me to come out and have a look at his PC to keep it running right. If we get it up and working on his machine, all the easier it’ll be for me to help keep him in business.

 ソフトのインストールなしで、オンラインでPCアドミンができる無料サービスです。これで友達のパソコンを直してあげたり...いたずらでもしたりしている。