Training in San Francisco

Only 2 more weeks until my class in San Francisco. Sign up now!

http://www.richmediainstitute.com/papervision3D_San_Francisco_09/

Use the code “lindquist” for 10% off

Vote in the Best Augmented Reality Competition

In case you missed it, we held a competition for the “Best Augmented Reality Demo” over at the (you’ll have to create a forum account to vote) forums:

http://forum.papervision3d.org/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=35

All entries are open source, so if you see something you like, vote for it then download it yourself to start playing with it

(I wish I would’ve promoted the competition more, life was just a little crazy over the past month)

Tags: Augmented Reality

Hired! :)

I’m pleased to announce that I’ve accepted a position as a “Lead Interactive Developer” at Roundarch. I started working for their Chicago offices last Monday. Initially, I was starting on the relaunch of our main site (roundarch.com) which is going to feature some pretty sweet Papervision3D, but I just recently go pulled onto a super NDA project until sometime in June (which is also going to be pretty amazing, just a lot less 3D).

I wanted to thank everyone out there for all the kind words and messages of support I received. I did read them all even if I didn’t get a chance to respond to everything. This position will be the best for me, my family, and even coming up with crazy new ideas to post on pv3d.org

Here’s a quick blogroll/shout-out to my fellow Roundarchers (I’m still getting to know everyone, so I’m sure this list isn’t anywhere near all-inclusive):

http://blog.pekpongpaet.com/
http://www.whatanexperience.org/
http://adamflater.blogspot.com/
http://www.insideria.com/jeremy-bierly/
http://www.fadetofuture.com/worklog/
http://blog.juanbonfante.com/
http://www.vbrunetti.com/blog/
http://blog.thecombustionchamber.com/
http://blog.johnnyjuice.com/

And lastly, we own Merapi, so I’m looking forward to seeing how far we can push that technology.

There’s more than one way to skin a ScrollBar

This is a little off-topic from my usual Papervision3D posts, but it’s my blog and I’ll post what I want to

If you’ve ever tried skinning a scrollbar in Flex, you’ve probably learned it can be quite the pain in the rear. Using Degrafa (probably my favorite open-source Flex project), I put together a little package to help make the process a little easier. This example is still pretty advanced if you’re new to skinning (especially if you’re new to Degrafa), but don’t be afraid to start playing with the code to see what happens when you make your own changes.

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Tags: degrafa, flex, scrollbar