Supporting Florida’s Digital and Interactive Media
Planet Digital Education Hosting Class for Creating iPhone Applications
Jun 15th
Web and application programmers, IT personnel and developers looking to get into iPhone development:
Planet Digital Education is hosting a special event: a development class for creating iPhone applications, and we’d like to see if you or someone you know would like to attend.
You will learn:
- How to plan and build iPhone apps from concept to completion
- Get in-depth knowledge of the iPhone Software Development Kit (SDK)
- Use Objective C to create a real application for the iPhone
- Master the production lifecycle: prototyping, programing, testing, debugging, deploying a fully functional application
- Understanding the iPhone marketplace – gaining developer-level insight into getting your applications approved, sold and updated
- Hands on experience – create an intermediate-level application from start to finish
Can the iPad Be Your Only Work Machine? (Part 1)
Jun 13th
Part One: Creating on the Road
For the past two months, I’ve used my iPad more often than my MacBook or iMac for communication and socialization, primarily web surfing, email and Skype. I can easily get someone else’s creative content: ABC Player, Netflix for Instant Watching, the movies and television shows I subscribe to on iTunes, and more games than I have for my Nintendo DS and of equal (or better) quality. But I haven’t done as much creating on the iPad. Occasionally, I made changes to the DMAF website through the Bluehost Control Panel and via the WordPress engine; but my MacBook and iMac have the programs and workflow I’ve used for years to create new content.
Heading cross-country for a wedding, I decided to leave my MacBook and accessories behind and travel light: iPad and Apple’s small wireless keyboard, Kindle, pocket Nikon and my iPod Nano as my video camera. As an avid photographer, leaving my Nikon DSLR behind was the hardest. Not taking the laptop saved me eight lbs. and a carry-on. Although this was a week-long vacation, it’s hard for me not to bring some work along.
Work-wise, I’m creating a help manual for the DMAF website that includes 60 screenshots, many of them full screen, and decided that this trip would be the perfect opportunity to see how much creative content I could generate with only my iPad and it’s software. (more…)
DMAF Board Member Wins SBA Honor
Jun 11th
Our own Waymon Armstrong, president and CEO of ECS (Engineering and Computer Simulations, Inc.), was recognized by President Barack Obama as the US Small Business Administration’s National Small Business Person of the Year!
READ MORE HERE
$242M in Transferable Tax Credit Incentives for our Industries
May 1st
Time to celebrate!
After a year-long campaign by Florida’s Film, Television and Digital/Interactive Media industries, professionals, supporters and associations, the Florida Legislature today passed the forward-looking and comprehensive “Jobs for Florida” bill (SB 1752, Economic Development).
The bill provides for $242 million in transferable tax credits which will lead to over $1.2 Billion in direct spending in Florida over the next 5 years by digital and interactive media, film and television productions in our state.
The annual allocations of tax credits are: $53.5M in 2010-11; $74.5M in 2011-12; and $38M each year for the subsequent three years (’12-’13, ’13-’14 and ’14-’15 ), with base incentives of 20% for major digital and interactive media, film and TV projects over $625K, as well as 20% for Emerging and Independent Media projects of between $100K and $625K in qualified expenditures.
Information about applying for these incentives (starting June 7th, first come, first served) can be found below in the release issued by the Governor’s Office of Film and Entertainment, and on their website at: www.FilmInFlorida.com
