New release of Autodesk 3ds MAx

With 2009 version of production line up Autodesk has released 3ds Max in 2 different flavors. One is for the media and entertainment industry (3ds Max) and the other is for Architectural and visualization industry (3dsm max Design). While both the versions are complete packages there is a subtle difference in both the products. The 3ds Max version has the SDK to build custom plugins and renderers kind of add ons to the product, the 3ds Max Design has got the lighting analysis tool. Except this there is no other difference in the products as per Autodesk. I think previously know Viz is dis continued in the favour of 3dsMax Design and good to know that both the products have got everything unlike Viz which was always missing some parts of 3ds MAX.

Zend Framework join hands with DOJO

This is really a great news that PHP frameworks are now thinking of AJAX out of the box. The obvious example is recent announcement of Zend Framework and DOJO partnership. Here is the official link to the announcement. I am excited about the news that at least Zend Framework will be AJAX out of the box. While reading the responses to announcement, it seems that there are better Javascript frameworks than DOJO. Honestly speaking I do not have much experience in Javascript AJAX frameworks but its really good thing to have an AJAX ready framework.

Next version of Dreamweaver,Fireworks and Soundbooth

Wow, I really appreciate the speed in which Adobe is coming up with its new version of softwares. A big thank to all the developers working in the products to make this fast paced releases. Well, the next version of Dreamweaver, Fireworks and Soundbooth are available to download on Adobe Labs. Though these are Beta versions but its really exciting to know and get comfortable with the future of the products.
Cheers

Adobe FlashPlayer 10(Astro),Beta Released.

A great news comes from Adobe as it released its next version of FlashPlayer, Flash Player 10, codenamed Astro. Though this is a beta release, but one can obviously get an idea about what is coming next. The big news for me in this release is 3D support and realtime audio support. Well, a whole new bitmap effects scripting language Pixel Bender(previously known as Hydra).
Kaourantin specifies in his blog regarding the old SOUND_COMPLETE issue and the details about the new sound API in Astro. Expectations are sound is going to be the next big thing in Flash after 3D. There will be definitely high level APIs come up for sound as it came up for 3D in flash (example : Papervision 3D).
Cheers to Adobe for Astro.

The Phoenix Experience (from Aviary)

Today I got the invitation for Aviary.I was so excited that I tried it out right when I got the invitation.Well, I was further excited to see the way the tool has been made. Its all flash and looks like working in native desktop application(Photoshop itself).I have attached some screen shots to make you believe that now there is really no difference between a desktop application and a web application.Thanks and congrats to the Aviary team to come up with such a brilliant idea. I wish all the best and keep your good wok going, for the team.

Lets talk about Phoenix, now. Its an image editor and reflects the tools a great image editor should be having.To start with I had uploaded one jpg image and launch the Editor. Phoenix launched itself and I am surprised with the tool sets it provide to me.I felt like I am opening Photoshop itself.Phoenix has got layers, history, selection tools like lasso, magic wand, fill tools like paint bucket and gradient fill(can customise gradient as in a good photo editor).Well, the usual short-cuts like ctrl+s(save), ctrl+z(undo) are also working inside the application. Further more one can export the images in various formats starting from jpg, png,gif to psd.This is tremendous work.From the first instance itself I fall in love with it.
Well, along with my invitation acceptance, I have got 5 invitations to share. Anybody interested in it can write down a comment here along with your email id and preferred username, so that I can send you one invitation.Since I have only 5 invitations, I would be sending them as first come first serve basis.

Is Python the new defacto standard of web programming?

After taking a look at Google App Engine, the first thing came to my mind is Python. To develop and take advantage of this hugely appreciated attempt of Google, the Google App Engine, I must know Python. Then I took sometime to see the reaction of the world. And as expected I found the answer to be true, that Python is going to rule the new Web.

While going through Aral’s blog, “Sounds simple? It is. This is game-changing!” I confirmed my thoughts, yeah its Python, which is going to be everywhere. Even according to this post, nicely described the new web, Python is the new Basic.

So all in all, a new era is around the corner for the web and web developer. I am always excited about new things in the right direction and for good, so for me its a very good and exciting news. Hello Python, welcome to your world and thanks Google for making and using web standards and innovations, the way it should.

First impression of Zemanta

Today while going through the regular blog reads, I came across ‘Zemanta‘ and trying it for the first time here.I thought to give it a try itself. Well, I am in Firefox and the installation went really smooth. Restarted the firefox and now inside my blog edit mode. As soon as I went inside the edit mode and tried to type out something, the plugin started updating on the left side of the regular wordpress edit mode.

I am finding it really cool and my first impression is wow, I am hoping that this will stand up to my expectations and keep its faith as a real cool add on.

Photoshop goes online

Well, another great move by Adobe. Here is the link to start your photoshop experience online. With Adobe Photoshop Express, Adobe is making a statement. Here comes my applications, lets begin with Photoshop. What I can see is, what we were talking for quite a long time. Everything is going to be online, one just need a platform to connect to net.

Well, well this new incarnation of photoshop is also shouting out loud that Flash is the future. This application is still in BETA and only for “United States” but one can register it and start the online photoshop experience.

Cheers to Adobe.

AIR and FLEX 3 are finally here. Next Flash player is showing its face too :)

After a year long, testing and alpha, beta realeases, finally Adobe released Flex3 and much awaited AIR1. Well, Adobe has a clean new portal dedicated to Opensource too. This is present at http://opensource.adobe.com

At the same time FITC Amsterdam has also started from today. Its the first day and Adobe is showing up the next version of flash player codenamed Astro, looks awesome along with FlashCS4 codenamed Diesel. I like this guy Aral, he makes me feel as if I am there in the conference.Any and all the conferences he goes, puts up the video immediately. So thank you Aral. And you guys enjoy this video at his blog :).

Sun Microsystems to acquire MySQL

This is probably a concern for the open source developers as Sun is taking over the most widely adopted open source Database Company MySQL. But as per the details in the announcement it will still be opensource. Well, Sun already knows opensource philosophy and quite a good player in it. So my thought goes the way Adobe-Macromedia acquisition. But this is most probably the biggest acquisition ever, not only on the money front but if we think about the clients, Google, Yahoo, Amazon are just the beginning of the client list of MySQL.