Just a quick note to say that I’ve added apture support to this blog. Apture is a super smart web service designed to transparently overlay context onto keywords. It’s smart enough to know what words people are interested in learning more about by keeping track of what words people highlight so that they can copy+google [...]
Tagged apture, blogVery little in the way of blog updates the past few months, been up to my ears in a few things. Work is finally starting to slow down, though, so I’m hoping I’ll have more time to post. In the meantime, here is a brief rundown of stuff I’ve been playing with (and will hopefully [...]
A few interesting stories this week have compelled me to flesh out an idea I’ve been having for a while. Details below the fold, but here’s the gist: as the web continues to evolve, we get more and more services that deal with lots of information and these services are currently in the habit of [...]
Tagged amazon, APIHub, APIs, business, lendle, tweetdeck, twitterJust a quick note to say that I learned last evening that my application to become an Adobe Community Professional this year was accepted. The idea now that the resources and contacts that come along with that will help me to create more and better content, so hold me to it! :)
One of the unsung heroes of readable AS3 code is the native Dictionary class. A Dictionary is just a container for key/value pairs, much like Object. In fact, a lot of people don’t realize just how useful Dictionary is. The assumption, easy to make, is that it’s better to use Object because then you don’t [...]
Tagged AS3, Cache, Caching in Flash, Classes, Dictionary, flash, flash.utils.Dictionary, FlexJust a quick post to wrap up my year. Work 2010 was incredibly exciting for me. A year ago, I was working full-time at a digital advertising agency doing Flash production. It wasn’t a bad job, but I wasn’t thrilled about agency life and in April I decided to finally take the plunge and go [...]
Tagged 2010, 2011, consulting, programming, roboticsI’ve been tinkering with some hardware I recently got my paws on, a VEX starter kit. Designed for education, VEX includes a whole host of equipment beyond their microcontroller – they have structural components, sensors, motors, servos etc and all of it is designed to plug into their microcontroller. Since it’s hard-wired into me to [...]
Tagged arduino, Arduino Microcontroller, Control VEX with Arduino, Replace VEX Microcontroller, VEX, VEX Motor, VEX ServoRight now, if you want to handle input and output between Arduino and Adobe Flash/AIR, the recommended best practice is to use a program like SerProxy to listen to your serial input, turn it into socket data and publish it to local host. Inside of Flash, then, you treat it as a socket server – [...]
Tagged AIR, arduino, flash, Flex, NativeProcess, python