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Publicists love to tout their client's latest accomplishments, no matter how mundane or trivial: whether their name appears on a shiny gold trophy at an award ceremony or magically inscribed on a tortilla in southern Texas, it's important to let others know that people are talking about you so that those others can talk about the people who are talking about you and soon everyone is talking about how everyone else is talking about you. But when it comes to obscure media mentions, our friends at BlueBlood.com may be stretching it a bit with this PR missive urgently informing recipients that some dude we've never heard of was—wait for it—wearing a t-shirt. If you happen to know who this person is then you are much nerdier than we are, but perhaps his t-shirt wearing abilities went far beyond that of mortal men and that's reason enough to take notice. Or maybe it's some sort of inside joke that not everyone on their press list was supposed to get. Or maybe they're just having a slow news week too? (Still, it got us to mention them, so we guess it worked ... )

Blue Blood Shirt Worn by Award-Winning Programmer at Adobe Show

Rockstar coder Edward Finkler or Funkatron, as he is known on the BlueBlood.net boards, was rocking a shirt for Blue Blood's SpookyCash.com when interviewed at the sold out Adobe Max 2007 showabout Spaz, his award-winning desktop client for Twitter. SpookyCash is Blue Blood's business2business affiliate program where people who run
high traffic sites can get paid for sending members to Blue Blood and Blue Blood-related membership sites. Blue Blood's SpookyCash.com is known for its unique high quality photography and industry-leading technology implementation. Whoever was operating the Adobe Max 2007 site camera was into the Blue Blood T-shirt too, because they came in for a long close-up. Blue Blood head honcho Amelia G's Twitter account is featured in the presentation as well.

In order to spur interest in their new Adobe Integrated Runtime or AIR development tool, Adobe held the Adobe AIR Developer Derby. Funkatron won the recent Adobe AIR Developer Derby prize for Best HTML Community Application. On winning the award, Ed says, "I submitted Spaz as something of an afterthought, to be honest. I had received some good feedback on it from a couple people at Adobe, but I didn't think it was all that, so to speak. Throughout the development process I avoided looking at what other developers were doing, especially other Twitter devs, because I was sure it would send me into a tailspin of despair at the bush league-ness of my own kung fu. After all, Spaz is the first "Rich Internet Application" I've written. I hadn't even written an AJAX all in any code up until Spaz. So, receiving this award is a great surprise to me, and very encouraging."

Blue Blood's Amelia G says of Funkatron, "He is humble, but he really is that good. I'm thinking Adobe is not exactly bush league in their ability to judge code development."

· Funkatron Wins Adobe AIR Developer Derby for Best HTML Community Application (blueblood.net)

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