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When will the new Layout Organizer library be released?

I have been getting a lot of emails and comments about this and I have rudely not replied to any of them. It is not because I am trying to be rude (I promise), I am just eyeball deep in a large project at the moment. Thus, I have had zero time to work on anything extracurricular, including sleep.

That said, after this project, the layout organizer library and releasing this blog’s theme are going to be my top priorities. Yes, I could release the library right now, but I would prefer to do it right. The project I am working on should be complete around early July, so I would expect the library to be released by mid to late July. This time, library will be released with full documentation, it will be also available as a SWC and it will be released on Google Code so that releases can actually be offered up on a more regular timeline.

I know this is not optimal and I apologize for the lack of updates, but better to just do this right than to hand out a half-ass intermediate release just to release the right way a couple weeks later.


Apologies on the blog silence

As you may have seen in the past couple days, there has been basically radio silence on the blog. I am pretty tied up on a project that is taking all my time. So for the next week or so, there is not going to be too much activity on this site. After all this blows over, I will get back to business and begin the daily posts once again.


Progress on the Layout Organizers Library

A long while back, I released a layout organizer library for Flash. The whole project was essentially an experiment-turned-released-code-collection and, as expected, there have been some growing pains going forward. I have been taking the time to rethink portions of the library and try to clean up and extend its functionality. One big push forward was the introduction of 3d layouts — however, it did not quite fit in with the prior structure. Well, I am very close to completing a fairly thorough rewrite of the library, which will be released in a less haphazard way. I have come to depend on this library for almost every project I have taken on — it just takes care of so much for you automatically. Read the rest of this post…


Comment Love for April 2009

The last three or four weeks have been pretty quiet on this site. While I have pretty much kept up with the stream posts, the only real post I have put up recently was an apology for the busted server. On top of that, I have been hustling on some really cool work that I hope to publish soon which has cut into my writing time. My hope is all this work will pay off in the next few weeks to come. All that said, the blog still received 44 comments totaling $22.00 of Comment Love. All $22.00 was donated to KQED.

I apologize that it took me so long to get the donation in for the past month. This idea relies completely on the honor system that I am, in fact, making the donations I post. When you see the dollar amount on the top right of the home page, it is implied that I am in fact sending that money over. I will make it a point to be more prompt on this. All that said, I am really happy to announce that TechShots has implemented Comment Love on their site. I highly suggest checking out the blog as it has some great content — I suggest making a few comments while you are at it.


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