Monthly Archives: November 2008
Open Your Eyes – The World We Live In
The recent financial crisis has demonstrated that we live in a connected world. Many visible, but even more invisible connections between people, companies, countries and their money. In Zeitgeist, the connections go even further. Do these connections truly exist or not? I have no idea, but I can assure you that these two two-hour long [...]
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Obsession in Flash – Physics and 3D
If I’d like to learn something new, certainly some new technology, I always like to learn by example. Having a goal to create something specific is, for me, much more motivating than leaving through a book one page at a time. photo credit: dudutorres For instance, Timo has a nice example of Papervision 3D and [...]
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All Coding Secrets Exposed
It seems Assembla, my SVN host, changed their free plans. In fact, there are no longer free private plans. If you want something for free, you have to offer something for free. The free plan is now mandatory public. So in the spirit of sharing, here’s what I am hosting at Assembla right now: http://www.assembla.com/wiki/show/recipe20, [...]
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Remember Java Applets?
This was originally a proposal for a Devoxx quickie (Devoxx was formerly known as JavaPolis), but it did not get accepted. I don’t know why, but looking over the list of accepted quickies, I think they were looking for more hands-on things. In one or more follow up posts, I’ll be adding some examples and [...]
Musical Discovery (More Free Music)
I used to be a real electronica fan. It started with radio shows, but soon enough, I found myself visiting vinyl stores and trying to sample any and all new records. Then the Internet changed things. Suddenly the choice was even more massive than it already was, but it was also much more accessible. Certainly [...]
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The Lazy ActionScript Developer’s Way to Stream Flash Video
In this final installment of my tutorial on YouTube hacking, I’m going to show how to build the FLV URL for YouTube videos and start streaming the FLV in your ActionScript application. As you will notice, this is very little work, because it is based on the streaming example in the AS3 language reference. I’m [...]
Feel Young Forever – Lego’s the Miracle Cure