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Adobe Refresh 2010

Posted on March 9th, 2010 by andrewhunting

IE Designer Tom Holt reviews Adobe’s latest developments.

Last week the annual Adobe Refresh Roadshow rolled into town, with 2010’s edition touted as a “Dynamic live presentation that will refresh your understanding of the most recent initiatives in the areas of content creation, collaboration and distribution”.
Adobe takes this event across Australia [...]

Reality, but not as we know it

Posted on September 7th, 2009 by Richard Taylor

Augmented Reality has the potential to transform the digital landscape, merging online and offline in many creative ways. It is among the most interactive digital tools available to marketers, delivering unparalleled experiential engagement.

2008 Recap - Infrastructure Redundancy - Brain-splitting fun with DRBD/Heartbeat

Posted on April 2nd, 2009 by Miguel

File serving
In that innocent age of 2007, when it rained more, the economy was great and there was little time to think about high availability of your website, we used an NFS server to store assets or static content, and mounted the share on the application servers as NFS clients. This worked reasonably well, but [...]

2008 Recap - Infrastructure Redundancy - a Good Thing ™

Posted on April 2nd, 2009 by Miguel

Redundancy? No, I’m not talking about effects of the global economical crisis.
I’m talking about the fact that Murphy wore one hairy moustache.
Building infrastructure for the Movember campaign requires a specific mindset of its systems engineers, and that is that anything can go wrong. The campaign’s design is to continually get people to visit the site, [...]

Adobe’s Extensible Metadata Platform (XMP)

Posted on April 1st, 2009 by Josh Djuric

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One of the clear messages delivered by adobe’s cs4 suite evangelists is the importance of work flow and getting a result in minimal time.   My reccuring nightmare has always been searching for a single image file amongst a sea of unorganised, unmaintained image files with no particular naming convention or in any particular folder [...]