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Here I am in Flash CS3, coding AS3 on the timeline with a few Document classes here and there for sanity on an insane deadline. While waiting for my source control to download (someone apparently checked in the WHOLE internet), I figured I’d blog about an interesting observation I came across this week. [...]
This time I’m going to show how you can mask an Object3D. Fist of all we need to determine where the Object3D is , and translate it to 2D. We can do this by getting the screenvertex and passing the target-Object3. In this case we use the earth, of the previous example. Then new define [...]
I wrote about how good old Java back to RIA world through Processing, a media processing language that developed using Java. Well, someone really takes a good use of it.
Michael Ogawa created a project called code_swarm. It visualize the code commits happened to those open source project, using Processing.
This visualization, called code_swarm, shows the history [...]
Here are some cool grunge tutorials. Here you will find some matte painting, how to create your own brushes, filter vector effects and a cool grunge background.
The Granite DS team of Frank Wolff and William Drai continue to upgrade their alternative to Adobe® LiveCycle® (Flex™ 2+) Data Services for J2EE application servers. The latest release can be downloaded from sourceforge here.
This new release brings several improvements and bug fixes (gas3, hibernate support, gravity, spring security), and one brand new feature [...]
I just started my development diary for the Singularity web conference on O'Reilly InsideRIA. Check out my inaugural post: Building Conference 2.0.
I'm using sIFR on the new Singularity teaser site (not least because Mark Wubben is speaking at the conference, mind you) and ran into an issue today with extended characters (such as extended Western characters, Chinese, Japanese, etc.) not displaying properly as they weren't embedded into the Flash text field.
Getting extended Western characters working is [...]
The HTMLLoader class has a powerful method that lets you to load html content from a simple html string. The method is part of the public methods of the HTMLLoader class: loadString().
It accepts a parameter that contains the html content to load within an istance of the HTMLLoader class. With this simple code you'll load the htmlToLoad string into the HTMLLoader class. The _html istance will be rendered as HTML the content through the WebKit engine
Several positions this week:
- Peoplexs (The Hague, Netherlands) is looking for a ColdFusion lead developer and multiple ColdFusion developers. Details posted online here and here.
- Unnamed client (Cleveland, OH) is looking for a ColdFusion contractor for a multiple week engagement. Requirements include experience with ColdFusion 8, DHTML, JavaScript, IIS, and SQL 2000/2005. Contact recruiter Derek Carle at Oxford & Associates.
These days I'm working on the O'Reilly AIR Cookbook creating the examples for the chapter on the HTMLLoader class. The HTMLLoader class has a powerful method that lets you to load html content from a simple html string. The...
I’m sorry I’m late on announcing this, I’ve been super busy with this current client and trying to get everything else done for the course has just consumed all motor skills and brain cells ;(
I’m taking a break from traveling for a while, so RMI has set me up with some on-line course time and [...]
I’m sorry I’m late on announcing this, I’ve been super busy with this current client and trying to get everything else done for the course has just consumed all motor skills and brain cells ;(
I’m taking a break from traveling for a while, so RMI has set me up with some on-line course time and [...]
I’m sorry I’m late on announcing this, I’ve been super busy with this current client and trying to get everything else done for the course has just consumed all motor skills and brain cells ;(
I’m taking a break from traveling for a while, so RMI has set me up with some on-line course time and [...]
There have been many search engines built using Flash coming up. These are a wonderful way to search when you have time to kill, or when you are bored with the unaesthetic list of links returned by the usual biggies, or when you have no clue about what you’re searching and thus need to check [...]
Take a sneak peek at the new Singularity web site on Google App Engine. You can sign up for the site, which will go live in July, and register your interest in the conference and help me test out the deployment environment. (And yes, Singularity is inverting its colors for the second half of the [...]
Remember, more than actually being difficult, Linux has been taught to be so. We would like to adhere to a new statement saying, Linux is different and not necessarily difficult.
Remember, more than actually being difficult, Linux has been taught to be so. We would like to adhere to a new statement saying, Linux is different and not necessarily difficult.
From RWW:
Realistic video search seems to be a long ways off from where I sit, but I’m not sure I buy how disruptive tagging actually is. Yep, I’ve read Shirky, I use del.icio.us regularly and I appreciate and argue for tagging in the applications and services I use. The problem is I actually loathe it. [...]
Dashboards are an easy way to let someone get clear picture on data, as also a great tool to compare different factors. With Flex you are able to create different kind of dashboards. The following tutorials will teach how to do it:
In this tutorial, the Nitobi Grid, an Ajax component, is used to build an [...]
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