Okay students, class is canceled for tonight Feb 09, 2010. I’ve already heard from many of you about not coming so I will try to reach the rest of you through email.

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For my Flash students… Just another example of the power of Flash applications.

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I work full-time at the Presbyterian Church USA in Louisville and created the Web site for the General Assembly meeting to take place July 3-10, 2010. The Office of the General Assembly department in which I’m employed serves as a business arm, of sorts, for the national church. The General Assembly is a meeting, held every 2 years, that operates much like a congressional session. Rules are proposed and voted on by representatives from churches and collective groups representing clusters of churches around the country. Presbyterians operate under the guidance of a constitution that requires votes from representatives for every adjustment regardless of size. Tens of thousands of Presbyterians gather to discuss issues faced by the church. This year the meeting is in Minneapolis.

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I recently created a small registration/informational site for Dr. L. Douglas Knight in Louisville. He is an orthodontist that spends a lot of time working with dental professionals on a specific discipline in the field. This new project is a course for practicing dentists and orthodontists that takes place in 4 locations over 5 weeks. In the full article I have some screen shots etc. I worked with Dr. Knight for a year out of school and I owe him plenty for giving me a chance to work in the field and get my hands nice and dirty as a staff member. I created all of his presentations, printed materials, Knightortho Web site and office educational materials. By the end of a year we had created, pretty much, everything he needed from a full-time employee. I moved on to work at Fort Knox for Northrop Grumman and we have remained friends for the past 5-6 years. He needed a small informational site and I was glad to help out.

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Students, here’s a neat little Web tool that you may find a use for one day. I’ve been working on figuring our how to utilize UStream to do Web casts for Presbyterian (U.S.A.).

USTREAM

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A little plug for local illustrator Frank Peak and a “peak” at my super awesome custom button pack contest SCORE!!!

If McDonald’s packaged their crappy food so good I’d eat there a lot more often.

...two ends of Frank’s cubicle had a chain that was 10 or more post-its long of sketches and just as many napkins with cartoons littering the adjacent walls. Lunch… cartoons on the napkins and receipts. Meetings… cartoons scattered among random notes. He cranks out these…

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Students, this is an excellent video discussing jQuery as a tool for developers when styling elements in Dreamweaver. Want to know what jQuery is or why you should watch this video read the complete article.

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Here is the hobsongraphics.com wordle image.

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My absence in no way suggests that I am anything less than completely stoked about working with you guys on Introduction to Flash. It is my favorite program and I think you will learn to enjoy it. I can hear your baited anticipation over the interwebz. I wanted to tell you what I was up to. If you poke around on this site you’ll learn that I work at the Presbyterian Church headquarters downtown on Witherspoon St. My new job sent me to Atlanta for an event called Big Tent. 1,600+ Presbyterians came from all over to gather and do workshops/worship together at the Hyatt Regency. I am the web manager, but that week I was the videographer/interviewer/run arounder. I’m pretty new to video production especially all of the cameras and lighting so I’ll spare you the details of the trials but this is what happens when you guys graduate and go professional. You have to pick up skills, that you haven’t even considered in 5-10 years, overnight. I literally stayed up until after midnight for 3-5 days playing with the equipment and probably still made a million rookie mistakes. This article is meant to simply give those of you without the experience an idea of what business trips can entail.

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