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As I have mentioned in previous posts, I spent the better half of this year working on a cutting-edge Flex application at Schematic for the PGA Tour. The application is their official shot tracker and it is publicly accessible for free from the PGA Tour website. Since the application is only active during tournaments, which are typically every Thursday-Sunday, many of you probably haven’t had the opportunity to check it out. Fortunately, the PGA Tour just released a demo video which demonstrates the application. If you are interested, here is a link to the demo:

http://www.pgatour.com/shottracker/demo/

Also, here is a direct link to the application itself:

http://www.pgatour.com/shottracker/home.html

It was a pleasure presenting to the fine designers and developers of Portland’s FlashPDX user group this evening. If you are interested, here is the keynote presentation:

Download ‘rtaylor_flashpdx_fp10_presentation.pdf’

In addition to the keynote, I demonstrated 3D workflows and Pixel Bender shaders in Flash. You can find information on some of the things that I demonstrated in greater detail in some of the blog posts that I posted in previous months:

FP10 Setup, Pixel Bender, and Shaders

A Note About Pixel Bender And Procedural Shaders

The ‘drawTriangles’ Method

Generic Number Crunching Via Pixel Bender And ShaderJob

Regarding The Pixel Bender / Flash Limitations

Pixel Bender DisplacementMapFilter

Pixel Bender HSLFilter

Pixel Bender AlphaMatteComposite

ZBuffer Class For Sorting Depths

If you are especially interested in Pixel Bender, be sure to make it out to Adobe MAX this year for my presentation Pixel Bender Unleashed. Special thanks to Robert Reinhardt for inviting me to present to the Portland FlashPDX group; always a pleasure!

I just returned from a much needed two week vacation in the beautiful land of Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Photography is a hobby of mine, so I took quite a few pictures while I was out there. If you are interested, I threw a few of my favorites into a little web gallery for viewing:

http://www.boostworthy.com/2008/capecod/

For those curious, I shot with the following gear on this trip:

Cameras:

Canon 40D

Lenses:

Canon 10-22mm f/3.5-4.5
Canon 24-105mm f/4L IS
Canon 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS

Filters:

B+W 77mm Kaeseman Circular Polarizer (MRC Slim)

Questions and comments are certainly welcome. Enjoy!