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Who: Brandy Fortune
What: Usability for Designers & Developers
Where: RoundBox Global (Directions)
When: Thursday, May 8 6:30PM
Usability for Designers & Developers
Have you ever wished you had factual data to show your manager in order to prove a point about functionality you believed strongly in including or removing? Have you ever gotten frustrated by your clients requesting you [...]
“Pixel Bender” ? Really ?
[Fill in my excuse for not posting in such a long time]. There’s so much to tell, hence the weird title. Let’s start of with todays news; Adobe renames Hydra to Pixel Bender. They actually did it….now…it might be me…but wasn’t Hydra a way cooler name then “Pixel Bender” ? [...]
Today is my first day working for EffectiveUI, that’s one of the reasons I have been away for a while. Too busy finishing up at TFE, and also the late night chats and phone calls with EffectiveUI. So I switched and hopefully I can show some more Flex3D stuff, now I work for EffectiveUI.
I’m looking [...]
I'm a Nokia N95 8GB (with Flash Lite 3 installed) owner since November 2007 and I'm totally satisfied. When the Nokia N95 8GB software version 15.0.015 was released, the Flash Lite 3 support was added (other improvements include WLAN and browser stability, email viewing and Nokia Maps startup) and a lot of N95 Flash Lite (and non flash lite) applications come out. Moreover thanks to the WiFi support you can watch YouTube videos, write email and browse the web.
Paul Jansen is TIOBE's Management Director, and he responded to my post yesterday about the ColdFusion being taken off the TIOBE Programming Index. Here is his message:
Hi Ben,
Thanks for your reply on our TIOBE index. I have added an extra question called "Who is Richard Bremner?" to the FAQ of the TIOBE index (see the end of the page). I hope that this answers your question.
Regards,
Paul
Paul, thank you for responding. I still believe that you made a mistake, both in removing ColdFusion from the index, and trusting the input of a single individual and not making the effort to check the facts for yourself. However, I do appreciate you responding to the reactions and feedback of the ColdFusion community.
Some while ago Kyle posted on his blog an article about interactive legend.
As this was a requirement for an application I was developing I will tell you what I’ve done. And thanks to Kyle for the help.
I wanted that upon mouse over a legend item the corresponding series in the chart will be marked in [...]
You can monitor your memory usage/leaking with System.totalMemory property. This way you can see how memory is used, where leaks are and you can optimize those parts that are eating too much memory.
In simple words use System.totalMemory as bellow (in KB):
var memoryUsedInKb:Number= Number(System.totalMemory/1024).toFixed(2);
I used it to show the used memory in different units: bytes, Kilobytes, [...]
I love trying new things with Moo cards whenever I run out of a batch.
This time around, I thought it would be fun to take one large image and break it up into a hundred small cards to create a Moo card mosaic.
I started with a lovely photo of myself as The Phantom of [...]
Another great source, that lets you create an awesome animation. ” A vertex, represented by the class Vertex3D, is basically a point in the 3D space with a ‘x’, ‘y’ and ‘z’ coordinates. The interesting part is that each of those vertices can be manipulated separately.”
View the demo and download source file
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MXNA now is Adobe Feeds, and it’s working very very fine. Now no waiting time to load pages. The main reason? Because Ben Forta, Christian Cantrell, Mike Chambers and Jonathan Wall moved the great MXNA from one single server to the big Adobe feeds which is using seven servers. Thank you all for this awesome [...]
Here is a nice source, by Zero Point Nine enabling you to create cool particle effects.
Just to let you know that Hydra, the bitmap effect scripting language, will be renamed to Pixel Bender. Reading the Kevin Goldsmith blog this is the reason :
The problem is that it's a great name for any kind of technology that does multiple things, so it is pretty popular. We didn't want to confuse folks, so we worked with the Adobe branding team to come up with a new name that we could use moving forward. That name is Pixel Bender (tm).
During NetBeans Day at JavaOne it has been announced that NetBeans 6.1 IDE will be more oriented to AJAX and Web 2.0 application development. In fact the new NetBeans will add the support for PHP scripting language, support for embedded CSS, HTML and JavaScript technologies.
In the first article in this ad-hoc series I expressed my desire to replace the Cairngorm developers expressed preference for implementing the ModelLocator as a singleton with an alternative implementation as a monostate. ... The monostate pattern describes a class that can be instantiated as often as one likes and where each instance uses the same set of data - there is only one state shared by all instances, hence the name...
Matt from Evolve, wrote a nice article (an how to) which will teach you the way to install and setting up Eclipse and FDT3.
For those that don’t yet know, Eclipse is originally a tool used to program Java. It has things called Perspectives, which could probably be called Plugins, that basically lets you use Eclipse [...]
At my work, we have to maintain a large and utterly horrible legacy project. You know the type. AS2, and not just any AS2 … nasty _global-infested, _root-ridden, procedural … like spaghetti when you forget to put a drop of olive oil in the water: tangled and stuck together. It’s far too big to redevelop [...]
Thanks to Christian Cantrell, Mike Chambers, Ben Forta, Jonathan Wall, and the whole team for resurrecting MXNA as the new Adobe Feeds. Adobe Feeds have been upgraded from a single server architecture to a cached-load-balanced multi server architecture.
Thanks to Christian Cantrell, Mike Chambers, Ben Forta, Jonathan Wall, and the whole team for resurrecting MXNA as the new Adobe Feeds. Adobe Feeds have been upgraded from a single server architecture to a cached-load-balanced multi server architecture.
First, I personally apologize for the downtime. We've been meaning to find MXNA a new home for quite a while now, and we finally decided to make the time to do it. If you're interested in the story behind what happened, here it is.
MXNA is back and it is now called feeds.adobe.com. It also runs way faster. I was wondering when they would change the url that contained Macromedia to something containing Adobe instead and it looks like that time is now. I am really happy it is back up because I felt all alone not knowing what [...]
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