Last month, I spent a good two weeks flying to Chicago, San Francisco and New York City, meeting with Leo Burnett, Adobe, and Google. Leo Burnett showed interest for their Energy Pool, Adobe for their Experience Design (XD) team, and Google for their Creative Lab. Throughout each meeting, I soaked in as much as I could about each group and ultimately decided to join Adobe.

Working with Adobe, I will develop Adobe AIR apps full-time. I will work out of Baltimore for this next year, flying out to SF from time to time, and then take the trek out to the west coast. I am incredibly excited about working with Adobe and am ecstatic that I’ll be able to continue working on my applications.

But there’s more. Adobe is in the process of acquiring DestroyTwitter. This means I’ll be working on the app full-time with the support and resources of the company. Not only that, I’ll be working on other exciting projects at the same time. Since DestroyTwitter is the product of free time between school and work, I can only imagine what it will become with considerably more focus. Stay tuned.

Since fixing the Twitpocalypse bug in DestroyTwitter 1.6.4 Beta, a new problem has arisen regarding notifications—they aren’t showing up. This is only for some people, so it might not be happening to you. If it is, you can correct the issue with a simple text editor. Go into the Documents/DestroyToday/DestroyTwitter folder. Inside that is a folder with your username. Inside that is a notifications.xml file. Open it, and change all the values to zero (0). If you have the issue, some values, if not all, will be NaN. Save the file and open DestroyTwitter. Here’s what the final file should look like:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<mostRecent>
	<home>0</home>
	<replies>0</replies>
	<messages>0</messages>
	<groups>0</groups>
	<search>0</search>
</mostRecent>

Christmas comes early as Twitter ups the API limit to 150 from 100. What does this mean?—more frequent canvas refreshes for users and a little breathing room for developers. I’m still holding out for unlimited API calls, but I know that will always be a dream.

I tweeted earlier wondering why we don’t have commercials like this anymore. As soon as I pressed submit, I realized we do! Apple lives off this back/forth, pros/cons kind of commercial. On one side, there’s the better product portrayed by a cool, slick guy, and on the other side is the geeky, inferior nerd. I can just see Steve Jobs in a room, “Guys, I just saw this awesome Triax commercial—how about we do this…” Here’s one of the first “Get a Mac” commercials:

Because of this photo, I’ve decided to start a new tag, “Intern Andy,” for times like these. I’ll try not to go overboard, but sometimes it’s hard to resist.

Pranking Andy, our intern, never gets old. I spent a minute writing an Applescript that opens the video, fullscreens it and autoplays on startup. In all honesty, I’ve never used Applescript for anything but pranking people. Anyone have a good Applescript-pranking story?

When I first got my PS3, Jen convinced me to buy her the game, Noby Noby Boy. She told me it was by the same people who made Katamari, so I knew it’d be an acid trip. We both love the game for its simplicity, oddities, and addicting music, so I was ecstatic to find these Noby Noby Boy t-shirts. Oddly enough, they’re by Panic, the software development studio responsible for Transmit and Coda. The great thing about them is the assortment of “lengths,” meaning there are shirts with Noby Noby Boy at 12″, 24″, 48″, and 144″. There’s also Noby Noby Girl (pictured above).

I haven’t had cable for a good four years now and what differentiates Hulu/Netflix from cable is the ability to watch what you want when you want. Before online TV, if your show wasn’t on, you’d flick around until you find something decent. And, if something decent wasn’t on, you’d settle for a horrible MTV show that was entertaining in the sense that it kept the WTF-look on your face through the entirety of the show (see Room Raiders, Next, Date My Mom).

Though MTV’s choice in shows has gone downhill since it stopped playing music, its creative freedom remains at a constant high. Having heard Andre Andreev and Dan Covert of Dress Code speak at MICA this past year, I learned a few things about MTV since it’s their biggest client. MTV strives to put that WTF-look on your face with their spots and “WTFs” is the actual name for them. Who knows if they’re going for the same thing with their shows. Regardless, I’m loving the above spot. Be sure to check out an overview of the new look on Creative Review.

Jen and I went grocery shopping yesterday to get cheese and bread. We picked up a block of sharp cheddar and a bag of garlic bread. Combined with strawberries and yogurt, this picnic outside of her ceramics class turned out to be a fantastic break from the computer—and a chance to get some sun. With yesterday’s poll of favorite cheeses, I now have a solid list to try out for our next picnic. Here are the other photos taken at the picnic.

I put in a request for Twitter API whitelisting last night and was greeted with this email today. There are a few ideas/features I need to test heavily and 20,000 API calls/hour should suffice. Mr. Tweet pointed me to a new set of Twitter API methods that are still alpha, but certainly show a lot of promise. I’m thinking there will be a DestroyTwitter update sometime this week. It all depends on whether I can get this one major feature finished in time. I’m keeping this one close to the chest, but it’s a goody. Stay tuned.