A little under a year ago I was ‘oohing and ahhing’ over the official launch of Adobe AIR, and the amazing potential it opened up for blurring the lines between web and desktop applications. Lately – well, since Flashbelt 2008, I’ve been ‘oohing and ahhing’ over Processing …

(I’m honored that this piece was used in a Create Digital Motion article announcing Processing’s move from Beta to the official Processing 1.0!)

Adobe AIR and Processing?! Apples and oranges, I know. But I tend to obsess over things – whether it’s indenting my CSS properties, dropping my curly brackets to the next line, or exploring new software and languages to experiment with – like ActionScript 3, Processing, or NodeBox.

I think Processing has become more than just a fling…

Nick Longtin, colleague and teacher of many of my programming skills, once commented that Processing was right up my alley – and he was right. The creative potential has me quite addicted, and I think Processing has become more than just a fling. An area where my eye for design and my obsessive coding habits play nicely together. An area where stunning and inspiring work is easy to find. Where late nights of coding are rewarded with visual output, not some big query result to loop through…

Yeah, I Heart Processing.

Many of my experiments have been posted to my Flickr photostream – check ‘em out and let me know what you think!

Tags: Code, Experiments, Object-Oriented-Programming, Open-Source, Processing

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