BlackBerry PlayBook Game Developer Indonesia. Professional Flash Game Designer. iPhone Game Developer Based in Jakarta Bandung Bali Surabaya. Indonesia Android Game Developer.

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Hore… Kemarin kucing saya melahirkan, kalau tidak salah ada tiga ekor anaknya. Kucing saya ini (namanya Kim) melahirkan di dapur sendirian tanpa didampingi suaminya (ya iyalah kucing…), untung saja si Kim ini mandiri jadi semua berjalan lancar. Tadi saya sempat nengokin Kim dan melihat beberapa ekor anaknya yang masih kecil-kecil serta matanya masih merem. Kelihatan banget dari mata Kim yang lelah menjalani proses melahirkan serta menyusui anak-anaknya padahal sebelum melahirkan kucing ini tergolong kucing yang manja dan agak pemalas :p

Ini foto Kim ketika masih muda dulu :D

Kim lagi bermain Angry Birds :p

Sebelum punya anak, Kim termasuk kucing yang senang tidur apalagi kalo abis makan. Kalau malam senangnya ngejar cicak ataupun hewan-hewan kecil lainnya yang dianggapnya bisa untuk mainan. Bahkan sejak punya Kim di rumah, tidak ada lagi tikus-tikus yang berkeliaran. Kalau saya lagi programming di kamar, biasanya Kim ini datang masuk nemenin. Kadang tidurnya pun juga seenaknya sendiri, di atas tas, di kursi, dan di lantai depan pintu.

Nah, sejak punya junior sekarang Kim jarang main ke depan rumah dan sibuk ngelonin anak-anaknya. Ok, sementara segini dulu posting tentang kehidupan kucing saya di rumah :)

Flash to HTML5 Animations - Google introduces Google Swiffy extension for Flash Professional. With Swiffy extension, we can publish flash animation to HTML5 animation right from Adobe Flash Professional. This is a good news for flash developer especially developer who wants to make mobile content using HTML5 animation. Google Swiffy extension for Flash Professional (Image: Google Swiffy) You can download Swiffy extension for Flash here : http://google.com/doubleclick/studio/swiffy/extension.html If you have downloaded the Swiffy extension (.mxp file) then install it using Adobe Extension Manager. Don’t forget open the Adobe Extension Manager as administrator if you are using Windows Vista. Swiffy extension for Flash Professional compatible with Adobe Flash Professional CS4 or newer.

Today there is a rumored information about first BlackBerry smartphone that using BBX Operating System. According to Engadget and Phonearena, this device code-named with “BlackBerry London”. The BlackBerry London is said to be running upcomming BBX operating system, OS that combines good of QNX OS and BlackBerry 7 OS. The BlackBerry London rumored will include a 1.5GHz processor, 1GB RAM, 8-megapixel main camera and an additional 2-megapixel one and 16GB of onboard storage.

Here is a photo from The Verge that shows leaked of the BlackBerry London.

BlackBerry London, First BlackBerry Smartphone Using BBX Operating System? (Photo: The Verge).

The BlackBerry London is said to be scheduled for release in June 2012. Previously, there was rumored information about BlackBerry Colt mockup that we saw last month. The BlackBerry Colt also said to be running with BBX OS with qwerty keypad (not full touchscreen). I think this is a good news for BlackBerry Developer especially developers who creates application using Adobe AIR and HTML5 because BBX OS is support for Adobe AIR app and also Webworks app (HTML5+CSS+JavaScript).

Nokia finally released Nokia Lumia 800, a slick and minimalistic Windows Phone device by Nokia. Nokia Lumia 800 almost similar body to the Nokia N9 (MeeGo smartphone). Nokia Lumia 800 equiped with an 8MP camera and also physical camera button on the right hand side. It’s making the Nokia Lumia 800 more functional as camera phone.

Nokia Lumia 800 with Windows Phone 7.5 Mango. (Image : Phonearena)

The Nokia Lumia 800 is also capable of recording 720p video at 30fps. Nokia Lumia 800 has 16GB of storage on board to store your photos, music and movies.

Here is the specs of Nokia Lumia 800 :

Size : 116.5 x 61.2 x 12.1 mm, 76.1 cc
Display : AMOLED capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors
Memory : 16 GB storage (internal), 512 MB RAM
3G : HSDPA 14.4 Mbps, HSUPA 5.76 Mbps
WLAN : Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n
Bluetooth : Yes, v2.1 with A2DP, EDR
USB : MicroUSB v2.0
Camera : 8 MP, 3264x2448 pixels, Carl Zeiss optics, autofocus, dual-LED flash
OS : Microsoft Windows Phone 7.5 Mango
CPU : 1.4 GHz processor, Qualcomm MSM8255 chipset, 3D Graphics HW Accelerator
Messaging : SMS (threaded view), MMS, Email, Push Email, IM
Browser : WAP 2.0/xHTML, HTML5, RSS feeds
Radio : Stereo FM radio with RDS
Games : Yes + downloadable
Colors : Black, Cyan, Magenta
Battery : Standard battery, Li-Ion 1450 mAh

BlackBerry BBX, The Next Generation BlackBerry Platform - RIM has just announced the BlackBerry BBX, the next generation mobile platform for BlackBerry smartphones and also BlackBerry tablets. BBX was introduced to developers at BlackBerry DevCon Americas 2011 today. BlackBerry BBX combines the best of the BlackBerry platform (BlackBerry OS) and the best of the QNX platform (BlackBerry tablet OS).

BlackBerry OS + BlackBerry Tablet OS (QNX) = BlackBerry BBX :)

According to BlackBerry developer blog, BBX platform support for development environments like HTML5 (BlackBerry Webworks), Native C/C++, Adobe AIR, and also BlackBerry Runtime for Android Apps. BBX will include the new BlackBerry Cascades UI Framework for advanced graphics.

Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish - Steve Jobs - Apple has lost a visionary and creative genius, and the world has lost an amazing human being. Company co-founder and longtime CEO of Apple Steve Jobs has passed away today. Previously, Steve Jobs was officially resigned as CEO of Apple on August 25, 2011.

Jobs on stage at Macworld Conference & Expo, San Francisco, January 11, 2005 (Image: Wikipedia)

This is a prepared text of the Commencement address delivered by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, on June 12, 2005.

I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the closest I’ve ever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That’s it. No big deal. Just three stories.

The first story is about connecting the dots.

I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out?

It started before I was born. My biological mother was a young, unwed college graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption. She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates, so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife. Except that when I popped out they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl. So my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking: “We have an unexpected baby boy; do you want him?” They said: “Of course.” My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.

And 17 years later I did go to college. But I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents’ savings were being spent on my college tuition. After six months, I couldn’t see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out. And here I was spending all of the money my parents had saved their entire life. So I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out OK. It was pretty scary at the time, but looking back it was one of the best decisions I ever made. The minute I dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that didn’t interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting.

It wasn’t all romantic. I didn’t have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends’ rooms, I returned coke bottles for the 5¢ deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it. And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on. Let me give you one example:

Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country. Throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer, was beautifully hand calligraphed. Because I had dropped out and didn’t have to take the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this. I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can’t capture, and I found it fascinating.

None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me. And we designed it all into the Mac. It was the first computer with beautiful typography. If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. And since Windows just copied the Mac, it’s likely that no personal computer would have them. If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do. Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backwards ten years later.

Again, you can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

My second story is about love and loss.

I was lucky - I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees. We had just released our finest creation - the Macintosh - a year earlier, and I had just turned 30. And then I got fired. How can you get fired from a company you started? Well, as Apple grew we hired someone who I thought was very talented to run the company with me, and for the first year or so things went well. But then our visions of the future began to diverge and eventually we had a falling out. When we did, our Board of Directors sided with him. So at 30 I was out. And very publicly out. What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating.

I really didn’t know what to do for a few months. I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down - that I had dropped the baton as it was being passed to me. I met with David Packard and Bob Noyce and tried to apologize for screwing up so badly. I was a very public failure, and I even thought about running away from the valley. But something slowly began to dawn on me - I still loved what I did. The turn of events at Apple had not changed that one bit. I had been rejected, but I was still in love. And so I decided to start over.

I didn’t see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.

During the next five years, I started a company named NeXT, another company named Pixar, and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife. Pixar went on to create the worlds first computer animated feature film, Toy Story, and is now the most successful animation studio in the world. In a remarkable turn of events, Apple bought NeXT, I returned to Apple, and the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple’s current renaissance. And Laurene and I have a wonderful family together.

I’m pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadn’t been fired from Apple. It was awful tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it. Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith. I’m convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You’ve got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don’t settle.

My third story is about death.

When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: “If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you’ll most certainly be right.” It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: “If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?” And whenever the answer has been “No” for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

About a year ago I was diagnosed with cancer. I had a scan at 7:30 in the morning, and it clearly showed a tumor on my pancreas. I didn’t even know what a pancreas was. The doctors told me this was almost certainly a type of cancer that is incurable, and that I should expect to live no longer than three to six months. My doctor advised me to go home and get my affairs in order, which is doctor’s code for prepare to die. It means to try to tell your kids everything you thought you’d have the next 10 years to tell them in just a few months. It means to make sure everything is buttoned up so that it will be as easy as possible for your family. It means to say your goodbyes.

I lived with that diagnosis all day. Later that evening I had a biopsy, where they stuck an endoscope down my throat, through my stomach and into my intestines, put a needle into my pancreas and got a few cells from the tumor. I was sedated, but my wife, who was there, told me that when they viewed the cells under a microscope the doctors started crying because it turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery. I had the surgery and I’m fine now.

This was the closest I’ve been to facing death, and I hope it’s the closest I get for a few more decades. Having lived through it, I can now say this to you with a bit more certainty than when death was a useful but purely intellectual concept:

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my generation. It was created by a fellow named Stewart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic touch. This was in the late 1960’s, before personal computers and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and polaroid cameras. It was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along: it was idealistic, and overflowing with neat tools and great notions.

Stewart and his team put out several issues of The Whole Earth Catalog, and then when it had run its course, they put out a final issue. It was the mid-1970s, and I was your age. On the back cover of their final issue was a photograph of an early morning country road, the kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous. Beneath it were the words: “Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.” It was their farewell message as they signed off. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you.

Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.

Thank you all very much.

Source : Stanford.edu

Happy Birthday Google!

Thanks a lot for your great stuff on Gmail, Android OS, and also Google+ :)
Selamat ulang tahun yah…

Starling Framework The GPU Powered 2D Flash API - Thibault Imbert was wrote about introducing Starling framework on his blog. Starling is an ActionScript 3 (AS3) 2D framework developed on top of the Stage3D APIs (available on desktop in Flash Player 11 and Adobe AIR 3). Starling framework is mainly designed for game development, but could be used for many other use cases. Starling makes it possible to write fast GPU accelerated applications without having to touch the low-level Stage3D APIs.

Starling Framework (Image: http://www.starling-framework.org)

Starling is completely based on the Flash Player APIs and abstracts the complexity of Stage3D (Molehill). The result is intuitive programming for everyone. Here are the demo of Starling framework on Flash Player 11.

Demo 1 : http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7009356/StarlingTests/bin-release/Startup.html
Demo 2 : http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7009356/StarlingTests/sausage-kong/bin-release/Startup.html
Demo 3 : http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7009356/StarlingTests/physics2/bin-release/Startup.html

Via : ByteArray

Visual Size Report Extension for Adobe Flash Professional CS5.5 - Adobe Labs released an extension for Adobe Flash Professional that allows for easier size optimization of SWF files. This extension called Visual Size Report. Visual Size Report panel will be helpful for Flash developers in optimizing the size of mobile content regardless of content type.

Visual Size Report (Image: Adobe Labs)

The extension installs a graphical panel Size Report that allows designers and developers to see the various elements of a SWF file by category and their size. The Visual Size Report panel is not part of any Flash Professional release and there are no current plans to make it part of any future Flash Professional release. It is currently available as a technology preview and installs as a panel extension within Flash Professional.

Source : Adobe Labs