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You have probably noticed that my blog has been a bit lame the past month or so. The truth is that I am totally burnt out right now. It is sad really. I used to be such a machine; I could pull late night after late night and still stumble into work the next morning and be completely productive. Right now I am in this funk where all I want to do at night is sleep. For what it is worth, I do feel as if I accomplished a lot this year; most notably - six speaking engagements, two books, two native iPhone applications, and a sixteen month Flex project (started in August 2007). Needless to say, 2008 was quite the journey for myself and certainly the Adobe community as a whole. It always amazes me how much we mature as developers over the course of a year.

I plan on using the rest of this month to relax and refuel so that I can hit the ground running in January after the holidays. We have lots of new goodies to continue playing with, from Alchemy and Pixel Bender to Flash Catalyst and Gumbo…it is going to be an interesting year. I do plan on creating the iPhone tutorial for Flash developers that I promised back in September and maybe even picking back up on the next iteration of my animation library which has been gathering dust since the spring. Moses and I have been talking about collaborating on some interesting projects other than Go, so who knows what lies ahead.

Anyway, I just wanted to apologize for the lack of new content on here and rant about my current state of (unusual) burn out. I wish you all a safe and happy holiday season and look forward to rejoining you in 2009!