blog-j: Symbolizing, Coding, Objectifying, Processing

If you’re looking to download the Adobe CS3 Trials, well, get your hopes down now, because it is not going to happen.

Adobe is offering trial versions of CS3, however, you will need to order a DVD and have it shipped to you ($9.99 for most editions, $24.99 for the Master Collection, and I believe those prices are North America only). While you won’t be able to download editions of the Suite, you will be able to download trials for the individual products (eg: Flash, Photoshop, etc) once they are released..

You have two choices:

• Download a trial version of an individual creative application, such as Adobe InDesign CS3 or Flash CS3 Professional, directly from our website at no charge from Adobe.
• Order a trial version of an edition of Adobe Creative Suite 3 on DVD. Adobe Creative Suite 3 editions integrate multiple creative products into unified design environments for print, web, interactive, mobile, and/or video/film production.

The good news is that the trials are full functionality, and you can easily convert a trial to a full version with a serial number (which was the standard with Macromedia products in the past, but apparently not for Adobe products).

In all fairness, I just downloaded my version of CS3 Web Premium in the office, and at 2.2 GB it took a decent chunk of time (pretty fast, though, all things considered). Dial up customers will appreciate the DVD’s.

Read more @ adobe.com/special/try_buy/trial_faq.html

Another year, another rockin’ festival, for some another 3 (or 4) hangovers. FITC was, yet again, incredible. Highlights for me included John Maeda (who is a very quirky and engaging speaker…a low key presence with a whole lot of personality), North Kingdom, and Danny Stillion of IDEO. Not to mention meeting (and re-meeting) people, including - Paul Ortchanian, Gary Stasiuk, Evert Pot, Kristin Henry, and loads of other people (and by loads I mean not too many, but anyway…).

Of course, being mistaken for Justin Everett-Church was fun, for no particular reason.

Which, surprisingly, brings me to my point - what is it that is just so unbelievably bad about Hungarian Notation? (Or, rather, why do so many people seem to just hate it?)

I was chatting with Paul Ortchanian after his talk (we’d met at FITC last year, briefly, which is apparently why he mistook me for Justin), and I mentioned that I thought his presentation was great, but his use of Hungarian was killing me - oCamera in particular. In a flight of genius, I even showed him the Framework Design Guidelines book (yes, I’m that big a geek that I carry it around with me), expressing the opinion that it is perhaps the most important book for the Flash community - we’re very good at solving problems and writing code that works, but writing solid, usable APIs seems to be beyond all of us (I include those writing the Flash equivalent of the BCL - come on: stage.stageHeight, for crying out loud? what were you thinking??).

Back to the point - what is so bad about Hungarian Notation? You know, naming things like oMyObject, iTreeSize, bIsThisTrue?

You may even see the problem right there.
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In case you were thinking of making the trip, check out these directions.

Pay special attention to Step #24.

Hat tip: foo

And, yes, I know I should be posting something more relevant (particularly with FITC going on and all). And I will. Just not now.

York Mills - Exiting the subway

Originally uploaded by Jason.Nussbaum.

There were some issues on the TTC (subway) this morning. And it took me over 3 hours to get downtown.

In case you’re looking for me (ha!), I’ll be there after lunch.

Chances are, if you have an email account (aka: you’re alive), blog or forum, you get spam. I know I do. There’s nothing more gratifying than deleting the mindless junk that comes through one’s inbox or comments. (Yeah, right…)

So it’s nice to see a bit o’ spam that is heartfelt and really quite moving:

Please, do not delete the given message. Money obtained from spam will go to the help hungry to children [sic]ugand

Forgiving the bad grammar and spelling, I’m just glad to see that spammers not simply obsessed with Viagra, Cialis, and hot lesbians looking for my hard …

… earned cash.

I suppose there’s no harm in spamming for charity.