There has been a lot of interest in this lately, so I thought I would make a formal announcement (does blogging count as a formal announcement?). I am currently licensing large portions of my code library for commercial use. This includes the full source code for Flash0S2, the source code for gModeler, and the code for the gskinner.com site. This is in addition to the smaller licensable items like Pathfinder, the gesture recognition engine (also serves as a generic pattern recognition engine), XMLQueue, etc.

I’ve had a few companies license the FlashOS2/gModeler combo, and it seems to be working well for them.

There should be a lot more code available for license in the not too distant future, as Phil and I develop our new “top-secret” project, code-named Daedalus.

If you’re interested in licensing any of this code, fire me an email (the contact button at the top of the page).

I recently received confirmation that I will be speaking at FlashForward 2004 in New York City on “Development Process: A Visual Tour”. The session description follows:

A well-executed development process leads to better results, happier clients, higher profits and less headaches for both developers and designers. A visual medium demands a visual process, so this session will take an illustrated tour through the strategies and deliverables that form the basis of a cohesive Flash development process. It will also include tips on how to extract client input, manage expectations, plan a project, promote collaboration and generally keep your boss (or whoever writes the checks) happy.

I’m really looking forwards to the conference, and meeting up with more Flash peeps. It sounds like the FlashForward people are really working hard at making this conference a great one.

Thanks to Phil joining gskinner.com, I finally had enough free time to make a couple of updates to gModeler that I had hoped to get done a long time ago. Firstly, I fixed the issues with Mozilla based browsers displaying the source of the application page, instead of the application. Secondly, I added the capability to export ActionScript 2.0 stub code – it currently dumps all the class code together (so you have to separate it into class files manually), but that’s the limitation of outputting to a dialog box.

Let me know what you think of the code / comments it’s exporting – I’ll tweak it if necessary.

Now to get started on v2.0. 😉

While I’m busy posting examples of tolerance based “organic” systems, I thought I would post one of the first ones I created. It’s about 2 years old, but I think it’s still pretty neat to watch. Click once or twice anywhere in the black area below, then sit back and watch the crystallization process (give it a couple of seconds).

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