Cobalt Edge LLC is Christopher Bailey's consulting company, and tech blog space. Chris is the VP of Engineering at and developer of DealBase.com the largest hotel deals site on the web, as well as VP of Engineering at Bring Light a charitable giving site. I've previously worked at Adobe Systems (twice), and a few startups. You can also find me on GitHub. Finally, I'm the developer of the Visionary Saver screen saver.
I was happy to receive email from Grist, which just did an article on 15 Green Buildings. They used one of my photos of the Adobe Systems buildings in San Jose (see building #8 in the article). Here's the full photo on Flickr. I myself have become very interested in being "green" and have been increasing my own efforts. Good job to Grist for observing the Creative Commons license, and glad I could help with such an article.
Check out the iPhoneDevCamp, which is being held at Adobe's San Francisco office July 6-8. This is a free event, and features presentations, development projects, and demos.
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Adobe is acquiring Scene7, who make superb technology for media delivery amongst other things. If you've ever browsed various Amazon merchants, Sears, Macy's, Land's End, and many other clothing and other such merchants online, who show their products in all the different colors and styles, etc., they're using Scene7 to do it. This is their dynamic imaging product. They also make eCatalogs, and various other things. Great stuff, check it out.
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And the crowd goes wild! Yep, Adobe CS3 started shipping today. Check out the site. I'm proud to have contributed to Photoshop ("Ps") CS3. Specifically I worked on Photoshop Extended, on the measurement bits, and some small scripting bits.
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Following on ApolloCamp this past Friday at Adobe, you can now go and download the Apollo runtime, SDK, and Flex Builder extensions. Get it here. This is the coolest stuff, seriously.
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I just found out yesterday that the proposal my co-worker and I submitted for RailsConf 2007 was accepted! Quite exciting. I hope to say more later, but for the moment, the talk will be about using Rails and Adobe's new Apollo technology.
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Check out the press release! Adobe is releasing the FULL PDF 1.7 spec to get published as an ISO standard. Pretty cool.
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The good John Nack mentioned my photos of Adobe that are on Flickr. And, of course this was about as close as they will get to getting Slashdotted, er, I guess that'd bhttp://beta.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gife Dugg these days.
I should of course make one correction. John mentions I'm a Photoshop engineer. This is only partly true. I used to be full time on Photoshop, but my features are complete (wait for the Photoshop CS3 Beta tomorrow, and I'll blog about them). I'm now actually back to doing web services and web applications (hopefully more on that early next year). The Photoshop beta is very exciting for those of us who've worked on it though. And of course it's great for folks who've been clamoring for a Mactel version. This will be on tomorrow. There are some other interesting things on Labs recently as well. For example, check out Kuler and Soundbooth. Really fun and great stuff that's been happening at Adobe. And of course there's all the great Flash and Flex related bits, which I have personally been using a lot.
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I took some night shots the other night, while working on servers in the data center (had some time to kill while waiting for Linux to install). This one is shot from the six floor walkway and basketball court area. There are some other shots that I did time-lapse that show some of the planes that fly directly over our buildings.
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For our team at Adobe, we're looking for an experienced developer who knows larger scale web apps: how to design them, build them, integrate with hardware stacks, and so on. We already hired the more junior spot of the two we have open, but check out my previous post for the description of the more senior position. This promises to be an exciting gig, as we're using cool technology, building some great apps, and the team is a fun one.
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