Nerd Radio

Jonathan Campos, Principal Architect at Dedo, has had a Google Glass for over a week, he joins us to talk about his experience as a user and a developer. Hosted by Garth Braithwaite and Leif WellsProduced by Garth Braithwaite

Michelle Yaiser, Instructional Designer at Adobe, joins us to talk about her sessions at MAX with the game development SDK. We also do a recap of Sneaks, a general MAX session that shows off projects Adobe engineers are working on, that could potentially become products. Hosted by Garth Braithwaite, Leif Wells, and Mark Rondina Produced by Mark Rondina

Ray Camden, Adobe Creative Cloud Evangelist, talks with us about his sessions at MAX covering topics like PhoneGap Build and web development tools. Hosted by Garth Braithwaite and Leif Wells Produced by Mark Rondina

Liz Arroyaved, Strategic Community Planner at Adobe, invited us to record these interviews at MAX this year. She discusses the work she did in putting together Community Central at MAX, and the direction for Adobe's community involvement. Hosted by Garth Braithwaite and Leif Wells Produced by Mark Rondina

Kristofer Joseph, CSS and JS Framework Expert at Adobe, has been working on Topcoat, Adobe's open source css component set for application development. He talks with us about the workflow used in Topcoat, and how people can contribute. Hosted by Garth Braithwaite and Leif Wells Produced by Mark Rondina

Jun Heider, Senior Architect and Development Manager at RealEyes Media, chats with us about their consulting work, Apache Flex, and a session he's giving on Randori. Hosted by Garth Braithwaite and Leif Wells Produced by Mark Rondina

Juan Vasquez, Technology Coach at URBAN TxT, works with innercity teens in South Los Angeles to train them in web development, design, and mobile application development. Hosted by Garth Braithwaite and Leif Wells Produced by Mark Rondina

Jeff Tapper, Senior Consultant at Digital Primates, has recently been contributing to MPEG-DASH, a standard for streaming multiemeda over Internet.  He talks with us about the project and its progress. Hosted by Garth Braithwaite and Leif Wells Produced by Mark Rondina

Jacob Surber, Adobe Edge Reflow Product Manager, tells us about upcoming features, and how the community can get involved in defining the direction for the product. Hosted by Garth Braithwaite and Leif Wells Produced by Mark Rondina

Sarah Hunt, Adobe Edge Animate Product Manager, and Nayoung Kim, Senior Experience Designer at AdobeXD, talk with us about upcoming versions of Edge Animate, and how they work together. Hosted by Garth Braithwaite and Leif Wells Produced by Mark Rondina

Brian LeRoux, Adobe Product Manager and SPACELORD!1!!, stops by to talk about Topcoat, Adobe's new open source css framework for application development.  Check it out at Topcoat.io. Hosted by Garth Braithwaite and Leif Wells Produced by Mark Rondina

Serge Jespers, Adobe Solutions Architect, put together the MAXme app (iOS and Android) and visuals for featured Behance portfolios used before the keynotes at MAX. He joins us to discuss the process he used, and the work that went into the projects. Hosted by Garth Braithwaite and Leif Wells Produced by Mark Rondina

The artist Kiel Johnson joins us to talk about The Crowd Sourced Sentence, his collaborative art project at MAX, and other collaborative projects he's done at TED conferences Hosted by Garth Braithwaite and Leif Wells Produced by Mark Rondina

Richard Pennycooke, Founder at Reshape Media, talks about their product work and agency. Hosted by Garth Braithwaite and Leif Wells Produced by Mark Rondina

Chris Griffith, R&D Engineer at Qualcomm, joins us to building mobile applications with jQuery Mobile and PhoneGap Build.  We also discuss his helper application, ConfigGap. Hosted by Garth Braithwaite and Leif Wells Produced by Mark Rondina

Tim Riot, Lead Experience Designer on Photoshop, and Joel Brandt, Senior Research Scientist at Adobe, join us to talk about Node.js integration in Photoshop and improving asset generating workflows in Photoshop. Hosted by Garth Braithwaite and Leif Wells Produced by Mark Rondina

Aaron Draplin talks with us about his 50 point plan and his MAX session. Hosted by Garth Braithwaite and Leif Wells Produced by Mark Rondina

Meredith Cooper, Group Product Marketing Manager at Adobe, joins us to discuss the ins and outs of Creative Cloud for Teams. Hosted by Garth Braithwaite and Leif Wells Produced by Mark Rondina

James Williamson, Senior Author at lynda.com, starts to talk to us about his titles, when Lynda Weinman herself walks by and joins the conversation. Hosted by Garth Braithwaite and Leif Wells Produced by Mark Rondina

This year Sapient Nitro put together a live design competition called Battle of the Hands.  Chad Portas, Kaitlin Maud, and Nate DeLong join us to talk about the setup of the competition and how it turned out. Hosted by Garth Braithwaite and Leif Wells Produced by Mark Rondina

Chris Bank, Adobe Engineer on Edge Reflow, chats with us about community involvement in Edge Reflow. Ben Forta drops in to talk about the keynote and his shoes. Hosted by Garth Braithwaite and Leif Wells Produced by Mark Rondina

Krishna Gupta, CEO of Sortfolio, joins us to talk about the their product that helps designers and projects find each other. Hosted by Garth Braithwaite and Leif Wells Produced by Mark Rondina

Stephanie drops by to make a developer confession about browser sniffing. Greg returns. Hosted by Leif Wells and Mark Rondina

Greg Avola, Co-Founder and CTO at Untappd, joins us to talk about using PhoneGap across platforms, and the designing for an app experience vs designing to the platform. Hosted by Garth Braithwaite and Leif Wells Produced by Mark Rondina

Doug Winnie and Mordy Golding, Directors of Content at lynda.com, join us to to talk about the content on lynda.com, and the process of creating new content. Hosted by Garth Braithwaite and Leif Wells Produced by Mark Rondina

Michael Labriola, Big Cheese at Digital Primates, talks with us about the optimizing rendering in the HTML DOM.  Mike also talks about Randori, a framework for large JavaScript application development. Hosted by Garth Braithwaite and Leif Wells Produced by Mark Rondina

Renaun Erickson, Adobe Creative Cloud Evangelist, joins us to go over the keynote.  Watch the full keynote on max.adobe.com Hosted by Garth Braithwaite and Leif Wells Produced by Mark Rondina

Rebecca, Computer Scientist at Adobe, gives us a great description of the work being done with the Test the Web Forward project.  Find out how to get involved at testthewebforward.org Hosted by Garth Braithwaite and Leif WellsProduced by Mark Rondina

Greg Rewis joins us to discuss his year away from Adobe, and his ne projects at the startup, Stremor.  We discuss the tldrplugin. Hosted by Garth Braithwaite and Leif WellsProduced by Mark Rondina

Joni joins us to talk about PhoneGap, and what her role as a User Experience Designer looks like on the project. Hosted by Garth Braithwaite and Leif WellsProduced by Mark Rondina

Joined by Divya, Adobe Web Platform and Tooling Product Manager, we discuss, Blend Modes, CSS Shaders, Exclusions, Regions, and other fun projects in the works. Hosted by Garth Braithwaite and Leif WellsProduced by Mark Rondina

Alan Greenblatt, Adobe Evangelist, joins us to talk about his recent extension work with Brackets and Webplatform.org.  We also discuss Adobe TechLive. Hosted by Garth Braithwaite and Leif WellsProduced by Mark Rondina

Joined by the infamous Dr Dave Hogue, we kick off MAX coverage with a discussion of his several sessions on UX, Design, and workflows. In this episode we mention idux.com Hosted by Garth Braithwaite and Leif WellsProduced by Mark Rondina

We blackmailed Nate Beck and Ben Ganey, from The Engine Co., to join us on the show once again. We discuss the big release of their cross-platform, 2D game engine, Loom. Hosted by Garth Braithwaite and Leif Wells Produced by Brad Feuerstein

We nerd it up for a little bit, stay with us, then we talk to Ryan Stewart. Ryan tells us the upcoming Adobe MAX 2013, May 4-8, his new role as Edge Code Product Manager, and the latest public release. Hosted by Garth Braithwaite and Leif Wells Produced by Brad Feuerstein

Let's see; we talk about some TV shows, some comics, and Adobe Edge Reflow's first public preview. In other news, Ryan Stewart gets peed on by a baby. Hosted by Garth Braithwaite and Leif Wells Produced by Brad Feuerstein

It's our first week back and I can't remember anything substantial that we talked about. Enjoy! Hosted by Garth Braithwaite and Leif WellsProduced by Brad Feuerstein

Dee Sadler, Organizer of the D2W conference, joins us to discuss the plans for the conference's second year. Hosted by Leif Wells and Garth BraithwaiteProduced by Brad Feuerstein 

John Wilker, Organizer of 360 Conferences, joins us to discusses the upcoming 360|Flex conference and the plans for the future. Hosted by: Garth Braithwaite and Leif WellsProduced by: Brad Feuerstein

Our beloved, Nate Beck, joins us to talk about a new game development framework, Smash.io.  Our topic quickly deteriorates. Hosted by: Garth Braithwaite and Leif WellsProduced by: Brad Feuerstein 

Jake Parker, Illustrator and Graphic Novel Artist, reveals his origin story - turns out it was a sewing machine. Hosted by Garth Braithwaite and Leif WellsProduced by Brad Feuerstein

Huyen Tue Dao, Developer and Gamer extrodinaire, joins us to discuss her current favorite games, and her take on a few upcoming ones. Hosted by Garth Braithwaite and Leif WellsProduced by Brad Feuerstein

The author, Brandon Mull, discusses his soon to be released book, Seeds of Rebellion.  The book is the second in the three part Beyonders series.  We also discuss Brandon's process and his origin story. Hosted by Garth Braithwaite and Leif WellsProduced by Brad Feuerstein

Heroku Evangelist, James Ward, joins us to talk about the awesomeness that is the Heroku platform.We failed to mention in the podcast that it is free to sign up and get started with Heroku; see the pricing page for details. Hosted by Garth Braithwaite and Leif WellsProduced by Brad Feuerstein 

After the first day of the Flex Community Summit, Michael Labriola and Jon Campos from Spoon, join us to discuss their thoughts on the announcements.

Getting through the morning of the Flex Community Summit, we sit down with Deepa Subramaniam and Andrew Shorten, Adobe Product Managers of the Flex SDK and Tooling.  We discuss the main points summit so far, including, the changes to the Flex SDK and the community involvement.

Sam Means, founder of Hello Merch and formerly The Format, joins us to talk about the origins of the project.  Hello Merch is an independent company that allows artists to manufacture and sell merchandise online and on tour, without giving up their rights. We also nerd out about Sam's time with The Format. Hosted by Garth Braithwaite and Leif Wells. Produced by Brad Feuerstein.

Kevin Lynch, Adobe CTO, joins us to talk about MAX and his role at it; he also discusses Adobe's new focus. We also get to nerd out a bit about Dr Who with him. Best episode, ever. Hosted by Garth Braithwaite and Leif Wells Produced by Brad Feuerstein

Nate Beck, from ZaaLabs, and Sim Bateman, from Simb & Co, join us to discuss their first mobile game, Word Wars.  Hilarity ensues.

Randy Ksar, Program Manager at Motorola Mobility, joins us to kick off a raffle of a Motorola Xoom.  We also briefly discuss the acquistion by Google.