Seems that even Christmas and doesn’t escape the need for process and bureaucracy in order to run smoothly. My dad (who works in government here in QLD) kindly forwarded this to me to make sure that I didn’t miss out on Santa approving a visit to my house this Christmas.
SantaVisit Approval Form (PDF)
The 6th annual International Mobile Gaming Awards have opened their Call for Entries. The awards have some new categories this year, including:
You have until January 18th 2010 to submit your entries.
One thing that I’ve struggled with a lot over the 8 or so years that I’ve been self-employed has been taking time off when you get sick. Especially if you do a bulk of your work remotely from a home office, it’s easy to soldier through in your PJ’s and still wrack up considerable hours in front of the screen. This week I’m doing something I haven’t done for, well, as long as I can remember – I’m taking time off to get better, so please understand if things are slow on email replies, blog posts or training video releases. I’ll be back on deck before you know it.
Mark has released some screen shots on this blog showing some sneak peeks of the new Adobe Mobile Packager 1.1 Beta that will soon be released on Adobe Labs.
There are some fundamental UI changes that will make the process (hopefully) more intuitive for developers, as well as some streamlining to the SDK installation and signing process. As before, Liz Meyers has been producing a series of AdobeTV videos as well on the new version as well as secondary topics like how to get a Publisher ID. I’ve also been including the new 1.1 version in the Flash Lite Application Developer training course that I’ve been rewriting and bringing up to date.
Watch out for it hitting Labs soon, but in the meantime, have a read to see what’s new in Adobe Mobile Packager 1.1 Beta.
Same content, just a different blog engine (Wordpress) and a different look and feel. Still don’t know if I’m happy with the theme I’m hacking here, but I do like white and lots of space, so it’s not too bad. One new feature is a custom layout that’s designed for viewing on iPhone, iPod Touch, Blackberry and Android browsers – making it easier to read and navigate on the small screen.
I’ve added some new sections to the site (one big reason for getting off Blogger) as you can see from the nav options across the top. I’m planning on loading up some code samples and applications over the coming months to the Downloads section, but for now I’ve just been focused on getting the site up 
Due to an epic FAIL with exporting and importing my blog from Blogger to Wordpress, I’ve repopulated this new blog with posts back to February 09 (and without any comments unfortunately). If you’re looking for older content, I’ve got that all stored on an archive site at http://dalearchive.blogspot.com/ so you can search through that.
If you use the RSS feed from the blog, please note that it has now changed to http://dalerankine.com/index.php/feed
so please update your readers, etc.
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