I know it’s fashionable to trash Microsoft at every turn and I have a lot of gripes with the company (Internet Explorer, anyone?), but with Office 2007, I really have a lot of nice things to say. I’m not an Excel person. I know really very little about spreadsheets in general and tend to do […]
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Over the past few months, I’ve been attempting to sort through a lot of things in my life to discover what is necessary and what is really just nonsense to be thrown aside. In this process, I’ve been removing a lot of items from my schedule to see what sort of difference the absence of
Website Is Back- I’m Posting Again Read More »
When using the new XML object in ActionScript 3 and parsing the data with E4X, if your XML data has a “xmlns” attribute- you may have a difficult time getting any accessible data out of it. The infuriating thing is that the process will fail silently without throwing any errors, returning null, undefined, or anything
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One thing which is really unfortunate (but necessary) about the DUVAGA project is that all major functionality is not available to the public. We have developed some really nice tools and a good workflow but no one outside of a class setting has access to any of these materials due to copyright restrictions. Back in
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I’ve put off experimenting with Red5 until today as I’m quite happy with Adobe’s solution (Flash Media Server) and Red5 is still deep in beta-land at the time of this writing. I was able to install the server on Windows Vista and had a custom FLV stream piggybacked in a preconfigured sample application directory running
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I’m working on a way to proxy stream data from Flash Media Server to client applications on separate domains. There should be a simple mechanism in place to take care of such security restrictions, but since there is not, my plan is to create a proxy SWF that lives on the same domain as FMS
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I’ve completed a new short film called “Window View” which can be viewed at The Memoryspiral. [IMAGE MISSING] “A scene from within a house- looking out at events in the backyard.” I’m very happy with both the concept and the final realization. There were some technical considerations I was able to get around with the
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Twitter is a really strange service. When I first caught wind of this, my immediate reaction was; do we really need to be pouring more ephemeral nonsense into an internet already smothering with useless information? I have to say that after using Twitter myself for the past few weeks, and playing around with the ActionScript
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I fist tried Eclipse as a web development IDE a little over one year ago. At the time, I had mostly just stuck with Dreamweaver for all of my general web/PHP/ColdFusion needs. I had heard that the new version of Flex Builder was being built on Eclipse and figured to give it a shot. I
Aptana, Eclipse Europa, and AIR Read More »
Same issues as with BitmapData.draw() and RTMP… SecurityError: Error #2135: Security sandbox violation: SoundMixer.computeSpectrum: RTMP content cannot be accessed using this API. I hate to sound like a broken record… and I know there are probably some really good reasons for this- but there should be a way around this RTMP security restriction. Developers want
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Yesterday, I became so absolutely fed-up with the hosting provider I’ve had since 2002, PowWeb, that I decided to pack up and switch over to BlueHost. After a year of lousy customer service and even worse actual hosting services, it was time to call it quits. I still have some client sites with them, and
Web Host Transfer Complete Read More »
This website will be transferring hosts in a matter of minutes. Things may be disruptive until the DNS servers are all synced up. Sorry!
Site Transfer in Progress… Read More »