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I gave a talk!

// March 16th, 2010 // No Comments » // Thoughts

Wow. Someone trusted me with a microphone. Just gave a talk at SXSWi called Beyond Scifi, a look at high level natural user interaction concepts, then narrowed down to discuss communal computing. I gave the talk with Colombene Jenner, a fellow Schematic co-worker out in our LA office, and I think it went all right! [...]

Expelled: No Intelligence Present

// August 23rd, 2009 // No Comments » // Thoughts

Wherein I copy and paste my Netflix review of the horrible “documentary” Expelled, because it is way, way, way too long for Netflix to accept.

VideoDisplay Improvements

// April 3rd, 2009 // 1 Comment » // Actionscript 3, Flash, Flex, Programming

VideoDisplay has no doubt been the source of many headaches and much wasted time for any developer that has touched it. A lot has been written about it, and here’s my contribution, which is an evolutionary improvement over others’ work. It’s a fix that adds video smoothing and a source propert setter that doesn’t break [...]

A Note on VideoDisplay in Flex

// March 6th, 2009 // No Comments » // AIR, Actionscript 3, Flash, Flex, Programming

I just wasted an hour trying to track down the cause of a VideoDisplay-related bug, and I’m posting the very simple solution here to hopefully save one or two people (including future Daniel) some headaches.

Customizing FLVPlayback

// March 3rd, 2009 // 13 Comments » // Actionscript 3, Flash

Here’s a quick tutorial showing you how to beef up FLVPlayback’s SeekBar, adding in a play progress bar and a full-bar hit area to make scrubbing quite a lot easier than finding that little tiny arrow Adobe seems to think is enough.

JVM and Flex Don’t Play Nice

// August 22nd, 2008 // No Comments » // Flex, Programming

I ran across an interesting problem today. I tried to create a new workspace with the intent of cleaning up my Flex environment. It’s getting pretty cluttered between client work and personal projects and random experiments. So I hit Switch Workspace / Other and type in the name of a location that doesn’t exist yet, [...]

Playing With Perspective.

// August 3rd, 2008 // 1 Comment » // Geekery

Browsing through some old photos, I noticed that there was a pair taken centimeters apart from one another, and flipping through them rapidly created that pseudo-3d effect (turns out that’s called wiggle stereoscopy). Which got me thinking about perspective, which got me thinking about stereoscopy, which got me to open Photoshop and start putzing around. [...]

Hallelujah

// July 23rd, 2008 // No Comments » // Thoughts

Painfully good song. And that is my emo moment for the month.

Resizing ViewStack

// June 25th, 2008 // No Comments » // Actionscript 3, Flex
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This is simply a really quick note, and a reminder that whenever you’re starting to jump through hoops with code in Flex to accomplish something that should already be there, it probably is. Check the documentation. So ViewStack lets you switch between different containers visually. By default, the ViewStack takes on the height of the [...]

SWFAddress

// May 11th, 2008 // No Comments » // Actionscript 3, Flash, Programming

Holy sweet jesus deep linking is easy with SWFAddress. It’s criminal that all Flash sites don’t implement it.

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