http://www.kevingoldsmith.com An aggregated feed from Kevin Goldsmith's blogs en-us Copyright 2008, Kevin Goldsmith http://blog.kevingoldsmith.com/2009/10/08/skinner-talk/ http://blog.kevingoldsmith.com/2009/10/08/skinner-talk/ One of the sessions that I was really looking forward to seeing at MAX was Grant Skinner’s “Things Every Flash Developer Should Know.” I’ve really been inspired by some of his work and although I’d seen his slides (they are posted on his site), I wanted to see him present it. I’m hoping that they [...] Thu, 08 Oct 2009 22:43:09 -0700 http://blogs.adobe.com/kevin.goldsmith/2009/09/pixel_bender_bo.html http://blogs.adobe.com/kevin.goldsmith/2009/09/pixel_bender_bo.html It is MAX time again, and this year looks like it will be over the top. There are some exciting things that will be shown related to Pixel Bender. None of which I can discuss right now, of course! I'll... Tue, 29 Sep 2009 17:01:07 -0700 http://blog.kevingoldsmith.com/2009/09/14/some-code-for-a-change/ http://blog.kevingoldsmith.com/2009/09/14/some-code-for-a-change/ I’ve written this function a zillion times, so I decided to post it on my blog. Yes, it could do more error checking (what if that new returns a NULL? what if an exception is thrown?). But it does more than zero error checking, so there you go. This is super useful if you are [...] Mon, 14 Sep 2009 11:56:32 -0700 http://www.flickr.com/photos/kevingoldsmith/3906451190/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/kevingoldsmith/3906451190/ Kevin Goldsmith posted a photo: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 01:02:23 -0700 http://www.flickr.com/photos/kevingoldsmith/3906448770/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/kevingoldsmith/3906448770/ Kevin Goldsmith posted a photo: I have no idea where the heck I got his... Thu, 10 Sep 2009 01:00:39 -0700 http://blog.kevingoldsmith.com/2009/09/09/chez-shea/ http://blog.kevingoldsmith.com/2009/09/09/chez-shea/ For years we’ve stood waiting at Matt’s In The Market and pondering what was behind the door at Chez Shea. We knew that it was supposed to be nice, but we never got around to eating there until recently. We were pleasantly surprised at the size (it is quite small and cozy), the environment (similar [...] Wed, 09 Sep 2009 23:34:28 -0700 http://blogs.adobe.com/kevin.goldsmith/2009/09/new_release_of.html http://blogs.adobe.com/kevin.goldsmith/2009/09/new_release_of.html Last week, we posted a new revision of the Pixel Bender Toolkit (1.5.1) into the downloads area on Adobe labs. This version fixes a couple bugs from the previous release in exporting Pixel Bender Bytecode for Flash. Booleans should now... Tue, 08 Sep 2009 11:58:31 -0700 http://blog.kevingoldsmith.com/2009/09/02/the-dying-embers-of-palins-waste-of-celebrity/ http://blog.kevingoldsmith.com/2009/09/02/the-dying-embers-of-palins-waste-of-celebrity/ Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy Wed, 02 Sep 2009 22:00:54 -0700 http://blogs.adobe.com/kevin.goldsmith/2009/08/matrices_and_pi.html http://blogs.adobe.com/kevin.goldsmith/2009/08/matrices_and_pi.html This is a guest post from Bob Archer, a Development Lead in the Adobe Image Foundation team. I ofter see people doing a lot of extra math in their kernels when they could have simply done a matrix multiplication. This... Fri, 21 Aug 2009 22:52:17 -0700 http://blogs.adobe.com/kevin.goldsmith/2009/08/pixel_bender_au.html http://blogs.adobe.com/kevin.goldsmith/2009/08/pixel_bender_au.html I've been doing some playing around with processing audio using Pixel Bender in Flash and I realized that it was hard to find some working code to get started with. So i wrote up this sample. I tried to do... Wed, 19 Aug 2009 03:10:55 -0700 http://www.flickr.com/photos/kevingoldsmith/3816295469/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/kevingoldsmith/3816295469/ Kevin Goldsmith posted a photo: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 22:23:10 -0700 http://www.flickr.com/photos/kevingoldsmith/3816071663/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/kevingoldsmith/3816071663/ Kevin Goldsmith posted a photo: 7" audio tape reels and VHS tapes Wed, 12 Aug 2009 20:34:56 -0700 http://blogs.adobe.com/kevin.goldsmith/2009/08/a_proposal_on_s.html http://blogs.adobe.com/kevin.goldsmith/2009/08/a_proposal_on_s.html We tried to be semantically agnostic in the original design of the Pixel Bender language. We'd seen other languages go down rabbit holes of over-specification around what parameters really meant, locking them into archaic and insufficient implementations or clumsy hierarchies... Fri, 07 Aug 2009 11:48:03 -0700 http://www.digital-motion.net/2009/07/09/the-music-industry-sucks-now-but-it-used-to-suck-a-lot-more/ http://www.digital-motion.net/2009/07/09/the-music-industry-sucks-now-but-it-used-to-suck-a-lot-more/ I’ve been going through a lot of old boxes of stuff, doing some spring cleaning. It has reminded me of what it was like running a record label in the not-very-distant past. I started Unit Circle Rekkids at one of the best and worst times in history to start a label, 1994. I’d been doing [...] Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:43:40 -0700 http://www.flickr.com/photos/kevingoldsmith/3702010117/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/kevingoldsmith/3702010117/ Kevin Goldsmith posted a photo: The back cover of my old copy of "MIDI programming for the Macintosh" (1988) Wed, 08 Jul 2009 16:44:50 -0700 http://www.flickr.com/photos/kevingoldsmith/3702813092/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/kevingoldsmith/3702813092/ Kevin Goldsmith posted a photo: Bought in 1992 through my buddy Eric. Helped make the SF->Mountain View caltrain ride more fun. Don't know where the Hitchhiker's disk went, just have the packaging. Wed, 08 Jul 2009 16:42:51 -0700 http://www.flickr.com/photos/kevingoldsmith/3692504655/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/kevingoldsmith/3692504655/ Kevin Goldsmith posted a photo: Turns out it is a Floptical disk... thanks to those on Facebook and twitter: This is a floptical disk! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magneto-optical_drive Sun, 05 Jul 2009 22:22:00 -0700 http://www.flickr.com/photos/kevingoldsmith/3693306612/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/kevingoldsmith/3693306612/ Kevin Goldsmith posted a photo: lots of old driver and software floppies and an box of demo tapes from one of my old bands Sun, 05 Jul 2009 22:21:24 -0700 http://www.flickr.com/photos/kevingoldsmith/3692493793/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/kevingoldsmith/3692493793/ Kevin Goldsmith posted a photo: Turns out it is a Floptical disk... thanks to those on Facebook and twitter: This is a floptical disk! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magneto-optical_drive Sun, 05 Jul 2009 22:17:54 -0700 http://www.flickr.com/photos/kevingoldsmith/3681638589/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/kevingoldsmith/3681638589/ Kevin Goldsmith posted a photo: I don't know how to describe this. I think I bought this at a garage sale or at some store just to get the viewmaster that it came with, but also it was just awesome. Some company had a turkey product, I think. And they wanted to promote it, so they sent out this box which included a viewmaster and two viewmaster discs of pictures of turkey recipes. The idea being, I guess, that looking at the plates in stereo would make you buy the turkey product. It is just one of those genius pieces or promotional crap that industry generates. Thu, 02 Jul 2009 11:32:21 -0700