Boobies to Infinity ( via PixelBender )
This is a little something I like to call Boobies to Infinity. It’s created with PixelBender. The completed app is still in development. But I couldn’t resist sharing some of the output. This one is the product of the following equations: float test1 = exp( zee * cos( p.x ) * mag ) - …
Published: Thu, 02 Sep 2010 00:59:33 GMT
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MAX Unawards: Behind the scenes (part 1)
I love playing around with video… and I love playing around with Flash. When you combine the two you can create some really cool stuff. That was my goal when I first started working on the MAX Unawards application. This is the first in a series of blog posts in which I want to give [...]
Published: Fri, 03 Sep 2010 14:46:42 GMT
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Adobe AIR and Microphone Support
So one of the cooler features of Adobe AIR is it's ability to work with the user's microphone. I whipped up a quick sample of this feature today that demonstrates this. In this first entry we are simply going to monitor the user's audio and in the ne...
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Published: Fri, 03 Sep 2010 18:49:00 GMT
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The Traveling Genesis Project (Upcoming locations)
As I’ve apologized for not blogging repeatedly over the last year, no doubt one of the chief rationales is that I have to travel, do presentations, shows, seminars, etc. While it may come off as a rather boring excuse, it nevertheless is true. To prove it, I thought I’d quickly …
Published: Fri, 03 Sep 2010 13:06:47 GMT
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I Won A MAX Unaward
And you can too ! :-)
Published: Fri, 03 Sep 2010 14:59:00 GMT
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cfmljure - using Clojure from CFML
If you follow me on Twitter , you'll have seen me posting about Clojure quite a bit recently. I really like the simplicity and elegance of Clojure. I like the function programming style. I like that it's a dynamic scripting language. I like that it can also be compiled to JVM bytecode and used …
Published: Fri, 03 Sep 2010 15:07:31 GMT
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Keep your phpMyAdmin installations up to date!
One of our customers is running an old, but stable Ubuntu Dapper Server that recently got hacked.
The whole system acted totally normal, except for the fact that it ran ssh brute force attacks against several randomly chosen remote servers. So what happened?
The attacker used a vulnerability in …
Published: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 10:22:05 GMT
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Flowella new release out
Flowella has new release out. Is a great AIR tool for prototyping mobile applications.
“Flowella enables designers and developers to create prototype applications using screen mock-ups; be they scanned images of hand-sketches or images created using the S60 Wireframing Stencils or the S60 …
Published: Fri, 03 Sep 2010 13:06:24 GMT
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This Week at Envato
This Week’s Highlights from Envato Notes It’s been another big week at Envato! In a nutshell, here’s what happened : Marketplace Item Previews ? We Moved the Big Buttons Our New Marketplace for Tutorials, Screencasts and eBooks Grab the latest Envato Community Podcast all about …
Published: Fri, 03 Sep 2010 10:03:00 GMT
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A Periodic Table for HTML
Josh Duck has put together a fun and useful list of the 104 elements currently in the HTML5 working draft but organized like a periodic table of elements:
When you click on one of the tags more information appears:
Who says chemistry can't be fun?
[via Jackson Harper]
Published: Fri, 03 Sep 2010 10:30:49 GMT
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The Quick & Easy Way of Getting into YUI: SimpleYUI
The Yahoo! YUI is an incredibly feature-rich JavaScript library with a LOT of functionality but getting your head around all of those features can be tough. The YUI team wants to help developers get up and running more quickly and announced yesterday the release of SimpleYUI; a basic and more …
Published: Fri, 03 Sep 2010 12:00:54 GMT
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New Droid Ad In WSJ And More
Now this is a fun sight to wake up to. This ad is on page A9 of my Wall Street Journal. It's also running in other newspapers (including USA Today and New York Times).
If you can't read the text, here's what it says:
FLASH WEBSITES?
THERE'...
Published: Fri, 03 Sep 2010 11:47:00 GMT
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Update to my 911 Viewer
Way back in January of this year I blogged about a little experiment I did parsing local traffic-related incidents in my home town. A local police department had posted their data in HTML and I used a combination of YQL and ColdFusion to parse it. Th...
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Published: Fri, 03 Sep 2010 10:42:00 GMT
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Code Model is going places
I posted a while ago that I was working on the next-generation Flash/Flex compiler at Adobe. After taking some time off, traveled a lot and moving half-way across the globe from San Francisco, I’ve started working again. And then I remembered I had a blog! Perhaps the most exciting piece …
Published: Fri, 03 Sep 2010 09:24:40 GMT
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Digital Gold Rush: Mining Twitter
Dan Zambonini needed a way to automatically classify incoming tweets regarding customer service simply as positive or negative. He shares how he used naïve Bayesian classification and a couple of PHP classes, removed ‘noise words’ and created an interface that pulls tweets from …
Published: Fri, 03 Sep 2010 20:38:03 GMT
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Creattica Has Even More Categories!
Are you looking for inspiration? Visit Creattica, our gallery of inspirational design work of all varieties – from 3D to advertising, business cards to web design, and our most popular category ? logos! Submissions come from our community of creatives and are hand picked for showcasing on …
Published: Fri, 03 Sep 2010 00:57:59 GMT
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Freebie Friday
This is the first week of the month, and the marketplaces have posted their free files for September. Let’s check them out. ActiveDen: Logo Maker / Image Editor by jayc Logo Maker is a Flex application that helps you create/edit logos and images. Users can add/edit images, text, symbols and …
Published: Fri, 03 Sep 2010 06:24:01 GMT
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Interesting upcoming webinars with Adobe and Streamingmedia.com
StreamingMedia.com has kicked off a new series of ?Ask Adobe? webinars. Join us on 9/10th to learn more about the Flash Media Server roadmap with Adobe?s Kevin Towes and Dan Rayburn as they discuss the future plans and how you can be successful distributing high quality video online.
Published: Fri, 03 Sep 2010 17:00:13 GMT
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Innovations
This new commercial from Nissan has me impressed. Using “innovation” as their tagline, they provide an inspirational vision for a greener, better future. Notice how they balance ergonomics (the step in the rear wheel) with environmentalism.
Published: Fri, 03 Sep 2010 04:29:30 GMT
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Playing the game
One of the Adobe MAX sessions this year focuses on the tie between open source game development and the Flash platform. PushButton Engine is an open source Flash game engine and framework that?s making it possible to build fascinating games. In fact, one of the biggest successes for Facebook, …
Published: Thu, 02 Sep 2010 22:04:14 GMT
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Controlling the Viewport in Mobile Web Applications
In this post, we'll cover a simple addition that you can add to your HTML 4/5 mobile web applications to have them respond more like applications, and less like "web pages" in webkit-based browsers.
Webkit based browsers on mobile devices support the "viewport" metadata tag. With the addition …
Published: Thu, 02 Sep 2010 23:23:47 GMT
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The Node.js now running on webOS ? and more Web improvements
By Dion Almaer
webOS 2.0 SDK has just launched, and it has node.js built in (and more). The following is taken from my personal blog
At our last Palm Developer Day, Ben and I discussed future APIs for webOS including “JavaScript services” as a way to write code that runs on the other …
Published: Fri, 03 Sep 2010 01:20:07 GMT
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Installing Google Go on Ubuntu 10.04 and building a simple Web Server
The Go programming language was introduced a while back and caught a lot of attention and excitement. As the website explains, Go is a simple, fast, concurrent, safe and open source systems programming language. I decided recently to give Go a whirl and installed it on Ubuntu 10.04. Today …
Published: Thu, 02 Sep 2010 15:56:29 GMT
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How to Easily Inject jQuery into any Web Page
I use jQuery…a lot. It just makes JavaScript development much easier for me. Every so often, I may come across a site where I want to poke around and see what’s going on under the hood. In many cases, jQuery is being used so it’s simple to spark up Firebug and leverage jQuery to …
Published: Thu, 02 Sep 2010 16:24:56 GMT
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Minor AmazonS3.cfc Bug Fix
Today I identified a subtle bug with the listObjects method of AmazonS3.cfc dealing with delimiters. If you supply a prefix that ends with a trailing delimiter, certain paths would be returned partially truncated. Removing the trailing delimiter solves the issue, so there's an easy workaround, …
Published: Thu, 02 Sep 2010 22:10:49 GMT
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Serge launches MAX Un-awards!
My friend and fellow evangelist Serge Jespers has just released a new "widget" for MAX. It's not really a traditional widget anymore but a personalized interactive video where you can create a MAX un-award . I have already won awards, most notably for "Hardest Working Evangelist" and "Most Timid …
Published: Thu, 02 Sep 2010 17:04:00 GMT
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Employee Directory for ?AIR for Android? Updated
I updated my Employee Directory on AIR for Android sample application to work with the latest AIR for Android build (8/26/2010). To make it easier to find the latest version of the application, I also created a project page for the application where you will always be able to download the lastest …
Published: Thu, 02 Sep 2010 18:03:07 GMT
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Real Time Trader Desktop for Android Updated
I updated my Real Time Trader Desktop for Android sample application to work with the latest AIR for Android build (8/26/2010). To make it easier to find the latest version of the application, I also created a project page for the application where you will always be able to download the lastest …
Published: Thu, 02 Sep 2010 18:10:40 GMT
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Geek Travel In China
Take a few minutes to let Max Klein take you away to rural China to meet a farmer who has a way to come up with new software product ideas (that’s right) that would probably upset some people, but whose resourcefulness one might have to applaud anyway. Travel intrigue and software …
Published: Fri, 03 Sep 2010 07:10:06 GMT
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Adobe Flash Player in Latest Device News
Here are a few of the latest news and blog posts about different devices coming out with or recently updated support for Adobe Flash Player.
Samsung: Galaxy Tab has leg up on Apple iPad
Android, though it lags iOS-based devices in gaming titles, does have a wide range of applications. Samsung …
Published: Thu, 02 Sep 2010 14:27:08 GMT
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