Here we are, at the end of a tumultuous 2012 for the interactive industry (covering the production of web, apps, games and other software), and the end of this site’s mission. So much of 2009, 2010 and 2011 was dominated by the manufactured battles pitting HTML against Flash (technologies that should have been perceived as [...]
Creating custom implementations of technology — particularly those destined for the browser — is a much less predictable process today, than at any point in the past decade. Across multiple posts, I’ve discussed this topic from the perspective of developers and producers. But, of course, none of these projects exist unless a sale is made. [...]
Last week I posted a survey, seeking responses from the community on a small set of brief questions intended to illuminate how the nuts-and-bolts of production have changed over the past few years. Obviously the battles between HTML5 and Flash have certainly garnered much of the attention as a source of disruption in our industry. [...]
In private discussions with developers this year, many confess to a sense of annoyance or frustration with the technology landscape they have to deal with every day, when building solutions for their employers, customers or clients. Though, with some exceptions, I do not feel like this is what I’m seeing communicated in blog posts and [...]
September 11, 2012 in Business, Tech
Executing complex projects for the web has become more complicated and expensive a process in 2012, than it was two or three years ago. There are many drivers for this increase in cost — some of which have already been discussed at length on this site. One such driver of increased costs is the amount [...]
September 5, 2012 in Tech
Traditionally, those of us designing animated or highly interactive content for the web have been able to rely on Adobe Flash Player to display this content without issue across Windows, Mac, and Linux. In fact, the Google Chromium team reports that Flash Player is still installed on 99.9% of desktop machines running Chrome. There are [...]
July 16, 2012 in Tech
This is the first post in this new series of blog posts about continuous integration. A variety of topics related to continuous integration in software projects will be discussed as new posts are written. This first entry is about the unit testing of JavaScript for web browser applications. In particular, JsTestDriver. What it does, how [...]
June 5, 2012 in Business, Community, Tech
[Editor’s note: In a continuing community service effort, transitioning.to has licensed the following advice column “The Reluctant JavaScripter” . Long time self-appointed Flash expert Phillip Kerman is honored to serve the rejected Flash developers with straight answers to their stupid questions.] Dear Reluctant.js: I have a friend—not me—who’s struggling with a self-identity problem. For the [...]
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