Those great people at Blurb just announced PDF to Book! This is a fantastic development. You can now use inDesign with custom templates from Blurb to create your book offline in inDesign then simply export as PDF and upload.
This opens up some great possibilities, you really could now create just about any book you desired and you get the great benefit of working in inDesign. Can't wait to try this. You can read more about this cool development here. Templates are all avaliable for download already along with detailed resources for getting started.
Flash on the Beach 2009 on the way
19 june 2009
Flash On The Beach 09 fotb09 is happening in 20th-23rd September this year. If you've never been I can only recommend it in the highest terms. A perfect blend of dev, design and most importantly inspiration. It's a perfect mix and an amazing conference. I've been twice and have both times left completely invigorated to do new stuff. If you are around in September and can make a few days out in Brighton you wont regret it. Check out the speaker list, Colin Moock, Andre Michelle (genius), Lee Brimelow, Grant Skinner, Joshua Davis, Craig Swann to name but a few.
I just realised that I never posted my images from fotb08, so below is the set on Flickr to give a flavour of last years conference.
Danny MacAskill - Wow!
6 may 2009
Web Design Survey 2008 - Findings
13 april 2009
The result of the 2008 Web Design Survey are now posted on A List Apart. 30,055 web professionals took part in 2008 and the results have now been collated and released on the ALA site. This is the only survey of its kind on the web for developers, designers to get a global picture of the industry we all work in. Well worth a dive into the data if you took part and if you didn't there's always this years survey to come. Overall results are similar to last years findings but with some of the questions tweaked this year probably a better picture given. I found the skills gap data according to job title very interesting.
Flashtuts+ added to the tuts+ family
30 march 2009
There were some rumors knocking about but now its here, those nice people at tuts+ have added Flashtuts+ to the family. Since subscribing to the site, Vectortuts+, Nettuts+, AEtuts+ and PSDtuts+ I've found them a great resource. Nettuts+ and Vectortuts+ especially have been posting extremely useful articles and tutorials. Great to see Flash added to the family of sites, think tutsplus.com will be here for a long time, amazing to have the whole suite under one roof. If you use CS at all you should check out these sites and subscribe, well worth it.
jQuery UI 1.7 lib released
7 march 2009
jQuery just launched version 1.7 of the jQuery UI library. Just downloaded and am playing around with it, very impressive, check out the revamped ThemeRoller. Amazing stuff plus a new jQuery UI blog to go with it.
Simon Hoegsberg : We're All Gonna Die - 100 meters of existence
9 february 2009
Simon Hoegsberg has a fantastic new project he has completed on his site, one that even trumps his "The Thought Project" if that's possible. The "We're All Gonna Die" project is a 100 meter long image containing 178 people shot from the same spot on a Berlin bridge over the course of a 20 day period.
"Can you love people you don't know. Have you felt your heart swelling in your chest in awe of the realization that those people over there are alive, and so are you, and they are probably fantastic people, and you yourself is a fantastic creation. They are so alive, look at them. You are alive, too, whatever that means. Looking at you makes me happy. I don't know what this game is we're a part of. We just accept the whole package. We could laugh, because it's pretty funny. I think generally we're doing a good job. At some point we're all gonna die. But this moment we are alive. These years are our 100 meters of existence. Enjoy!" - Simon Hoegsberg
