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Kiel Figgins
A very talented artist an animator as well as my former college roommate before he went to Full Sail. Chances are you've seen his work in commercials (Psion, Samsung) and in video games (such as Tabla Rasa).
Link:
http://www.3dfiggins.comChristopher Gilbert
A good friend and former ASAP colleague, Chris is very knowledgeable on the more technical aspects of system design. His blog is full of programming gems and personal hardware projects as well as articles on *nix platforms.
Link:
http://motomastyle.comMansour Raad
Mansour is Senior Software Architect for ESRI and probably the happiest and most energetic person you will ever meet. A Flex evangelist, his site is home to code for showing off just what the ESRI Flex ADF is capable of as well as other GIS tips.
Link:
http://thunderheadxpler.blogspot.com/Sean McCath-Moran
Another classmate at UMO as well as an overall great guy, Sean's site is filled with a ton of articles from code to culinary to musings on philosophy. If you are wondering what 'emanaton' stands for, read it backwards.
Link:
http://www.emanaton.comJosh Bolduc
Josh is a former ASAP colleague, designer, great PHP developer, and a good friend. His site has some really good tutorials on both photoshop and PHP.
Link:
http://www.partdigitaldesign.com/Max Langdon
Ever since I've known Max, he has been designing some incredible websites. He still is proving to live up to his reputation with the sites that he is doing freelance with his company Pixel Hive Design.
Link:
http://www.pixelhivedesign.comPenBay Media
Penobscot Bay Media is leader in creating enterprise GIS solutions and is pioneering In-building GIS in both programming and data collection with their fleet of autonomous robots. Great people to work for and with!
Link:
http://www.penbaymedia.comEntertainment Resources
Owned and operated by Chuck Kruger for over 20 years, ER is a non-exclusive entertainment agency specializing in large corporate events as well as small weddings. Pretty amazing some of the talent that ER gets to come to the state of Maine...
Link:
http://www.entertainmaine.comJesse Warden
One of the Flex developer blogs that I subscribe to, Jesse Warden has a wealth of information on his blog for Flex application development.
Link:
http://jessewarden.com/Ted Patrick
Ted's blog, aptly named "Ted On Flash" is another great Flex blog I subscribe to. Ted is an Adobe Systems senior manager and Flex evangelist, great when you want to get the inside scoop.
Link:
http://www.onflex.orgPandora
Pandora is a free online radio service that plays music that fits your taste. I've bought a bunch of music after hearing it first on Pandora.
Link:
http://www.pandora.comSandy3D Engine
My personal favorite for 3D Flash/Flex engines, Sandy3D is capable of everything from cell shading and mesh generation on the fly to pulling in industry standard models from 3DSMAX and even Google sketchup.
Link:
http://www.flashsandy.org/Gizmodo
THE gadget blog on the web, well, at least as far as I'm concerned. This is a daily (if not more) visit for me to keep up on the latest in the world of tech news.
Link:
http://gizmodo.comDilbert
Ever hear someone say that they startd working in an office and, all of a sudden, Dilbert is the funniest comic strip they've ever read? It's true! Sometimes I swear Scott Adams has a camera and microphone rigged up in my office...
Link:
http://www.dilbert.comSmashing Magazine
I found this site from a colleague at PenBay, and since then, it has been added to my morning routine to check. Great articles on web design and programming - plus they give away icons sets practically every week.
Link:
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/Woot!
Ok, the final site I check every morning, Woot!. Though I've only bought a couple of things, and even then usually the shirts, I know that if I don't visit the site, they will have something I want. ...it's happened a couple times I forgot to check it. Four deals a day!
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