http://i-create.org i-create | therefore i-am | a blog about opensource technology and rich internet applications Thu, 27 Nov 2008 16:10:55 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The future of web applications lies in the hands of rich internet application developers. The two main platforms of the future will be Adobe Flash/Flex/Air and Silverlight. This should be extremely apparent to most web developers now. Web applications have been evolving more and more to act like ... http://i-create.org/2008/11/27/alchemy-its-no-myth/ Well I have been working on an RSS feed reader that is papervision3d based it is still nowhere near where I would like it to be. I have about a slew of other ideas on how to improve this project and I am just getting started that is why it ... http://i-create.org/2008/11/15/papervision3d-rss-reader-alpha/ Have you ever wanted to use a Scale Nine Skin in your Flash Develop environment? Well its easy. Here is an example you can download. Here are few easy steps to accomplish your goal: Install Flash Develop by Downloading it here. Configure your compiler and download the Flex SDK if you ... http://i-create.org/2008/10/30/using-scalenine-skins-in-flash-develop3/ Well here it is I have been playing around with Silverlight2 and it is astronomically better than Silverlight1!  This is an extermly simple feed reader with no design add more or less a proof of concept.  I have been trying to do things in ActionScript and the do them in ... http://i-create.org/2008/10/26/silverlight-2-rss-reader/ Computer Art starts with Computer Arts magazine.  I highly recommend a steady dose of Computer Arts magazine and Friends of Ed publications to any aspiring developer / designer.  It will open your eyes to a whole new world of possibilities and truly set your imagination free. Let me first mention ... http://i-create.org/2008/10/13/generative-art-with-kuler/ We recently had a UI contest at work!  Well in short our team won and it was a blast. I think the best part of the contest for me anyway was forcing myself to lean a new technology, build an application quickly on the new platform, and slap on a ... http://i-create.org/2008/09/12/concentric-circles/ I managed to have a great weekend(about a month ago now) in Lincoln.  I took over a hundred photographs and several panoramic photographs all over Lincoln.  Lisa biked in the MS Bike ride.  We both had a wonderful time.  Saturday I got to see Ian and Casey's new baby girl ... http://i-create.org/2008/08/23/lively/ Well we covered a great deal of ground.  We flew into Shannon rented a car.  Oh and if you ever get a car in europe always get the extra insurance for an extra 84 euro we were responsible for no damages what so ever on the automobile.  This soon became ... http://i-create.org/2008/08/23/honeymoon-in-ireland/ Life is short so it's not important to get the small things in life correct but the big picture.  First of all I would like to clarify my speech at the wedding let me reiterate no I am not dead Beth.  Let me make a big blaring point out of ... http://i-create.org/2008/08/23/reflection-on-the-wedding/ Informatics does not have to be boring. There are numerous ways to display data you don't always have to resort to the pie chart or graph (all though these are the most obvious and probably the most idiot proof) data visualization can be interactive and can be displayed in ... http://i-create.org/2008/06/28/informatics-is-not-equal-to-boring/ Well here is my cubic panoramic picture of Memorial Park.  I actually took this picture several years ago.  This is an extremely simple almost out of the box example of how to use PaperVision3D.  PaperVision3D is a rather complicated ActionScript library with a plethora of classes to learn.  So I ... http://i-create.org/2008/06/27/memorial-park-cubic-panoramic/ Well I have been reading and studying Ruby on Rails this is not my first time using Ruby on Rails I have actually completed some tutorials I originally thought of using Ruby for iHang10 but found CakePHP to be a little bit more reliable. I installed NetBeans at work but ... http://i-create.org/2008/06/22/worked-through-a-couple-of-tutorials/ My AMD Died... Not that it is a big deal just didn't last but 3.5 years. That kind of sucks worse yet I know that it is the processor the power unit / fan everything else works fine. There is no question about it the processor ... http://i-create.org/2008/06/15/amd-rip/ Unity3d just came out with support for the Wii! Unity is also going to be working on the iPhone soon. Thats cool so what is Unity? Unity is a game engine that allows developers to rapidly create games on multiple platforms. Unity also has a $200 ... http://i-create.org/2008/06/10/unity3d-and-other-rants/ It is no secret that google has been working on a host of web services that will compete directly with Amazon Web Services. These web services are made for hosting applications that grow to very large sizes (if the application takes off that is). The users get 500mb ... http://i-create.org/2008/06/09/google-app-engine-takes-off/ Well I have been working with ActionScript3 and come across a few gotchas. Here is my conundrum. Yes it is the infamous TypeError: Error #1085: This error occurs when an html tag is not closed properly. I have been using Yahoo Pipes and combining it with flash for ... http://i-create.org/2008/06/09/yahoo-pipes-as3-some-issues/ Well if you haven't heard that RIA are eventually going to rule the web and the fact that your desktop computer applications are on the cusp of converging on the web than you must be living in hole somewhere without the interent (in that case don't read this it ... http://i-create.org/2008/06/01/avairy-interesting-site/ Just an fyi that means Ireland forever. It’s official Lisa and I are going to spend 10 days in Ireland after our wedding. We are going to do some sailing in Cork. We are going to visit the dover cliffs and more. We look foward to ... http://i-create.org/2008/05/21/erin-go-bragh/ What if Microsoft is not the only company with a multiple programming language translation tool built into their rich internet application platform? Wouldn’t it be nice to simply have a layer for flash that interprets code and then translates it into ActionScript in the blink of an eye.. Hmm.. ... http://i-create.org/2008/05/21/cc-to-actionscript/ Well I have decided to migrate my blog to wordpress 2.5.1 and I am pretty happy with it. I have cleaned up the database fixed numerous UTF-8/Latin encoding issues (got rid of 99% of the weird squiggly characters). I have decided that in wordpress there is beauty in ... http://i-create.org/2008/05/21/i-create-v2/ In short I think Douglas Engelbart would be pretty proud of his legacy. He was an academic that probably had the one of the most profound contributions to mankind. His ideas were snicked at in the beginning at SAIL. Most people believed the future of computing at that ... http://i-create.org/2008/05/05/augmenting_human_intellect/ So what is the purpose of ihang10 anyway? Well it is built to supply the user with a deluge of information that is always updated through the use of various recursive functions. The user will be able to share, tag, email, embed, sms, post on multiple blogs with one click, ... http://i-create.org/2008/04/25/surf_the_learning_curve/ What is Flashdevelop and why should I care? FlashDevelop is an opensource integrated development environment (IDE). It was created using C# on the .net 2.0 so it runs on any windows box that has .net 2.0 or higher and Java 1.6 runtime. .Net 2.0 and Java 1.6 are already on ... http://i-create.org/2008/04/22/flashdevelop_quick_start/ Cloud computing is a new (circa late 2007) label for the subset of grid computing that includes utility computing and other approaches to the use of shared computing resources. Cloud computing is an alternative to having local servers or personal devices handling users' applications. Essentially, it is an ... http://i-create.org/2008/04/18/throw_it_in_a_cloud/ Custom C# Control: Note this is only part of the control. With a little more work you can easily make is so you can drop it on a page and simply name the FlashAudioVariable to point to the name of the flv. Code below is C# not C ... http://i-create.org/2008/03/14/actionscript3_sharedobject__flashvars/ Well I have had my nose buried deep in code lately only coming up for air occasionally. I have been busy at creating a new tool to be used for research and blogging. Currently you can use it to search Youtube, Flickr, Yahoo, Google, MSN Live, Amazon, Ebay, ... http://i-create.org/2008/02/18/search_gone_wild/ Engagement Announcement. Over the holidays I proposed to Lisa where we met 2 years ago:) I proposed to her in front of my friends after spending evening at Espa?a an excellent tapas restaurant in mid-town. We look forward to sharing our wedding with our friends ... http://i-create.org/2008/01/07/engagement_announcement/ I have been busy working; too busy to blog for the most part. I have sunk a significant amount of time in developing a new type of CMS ihang10.com it has many new features that most standard cms do not possess. In doing so ... http://i-create.org/2007/12/24/merry_christmas_and_a_happy_new_year!/ CakePHP with Automagic RSS is sweet but before you run off and install it by following the instructions found on the bakery page. You should be aware of a few issues. One make sure all your PHP Views, Models, and Controllers are space free. I would ... http://i-create.org/2007/11/01/utf-8_madness/ Mashup (web application hybrid), a web application that combines data and/or functionality from more than one source. The next wave of web applications will use existing services to mix and match information. With web 2.0 you had AJAX and SOA. We now have many web pages that offer services ... http://i-create.org/2007/10/31/just_what_is_a_mashup/ What does web 2.0 do for artists and musicians. It will eliminate all the middlemen. Over a nice frosty glass of suds Raffal and I discussed the eminent death of the middlemen last Friday @ Sullivans. Look what Radiohead has gone and done with In RainBows ... http://i-create.org/2007/10/31/the_rainbows_end___/ Well I have been very busy working on my blogging engine. I have made great progress! The basic blogging engine is working and I am currently working on special features that utilize various apis... Think mash-up. I currently have many working examples. I will need ... http://i-create.org/2007/10/29/it_is_all_cake___/ i-create what is it? Hey its a totally free friends networking service. You can: 1.create a buddy list 2.chat with other users on-line 3.create an image gallery 4.blog 5.you have a calendar to invite people to events 6.all of the information is syndicated through rss 7.upload files 8.create polls 9.News Aggregation with hundreds of different news sources Why is ... http://i-create.org/2007/10/29/enlist_now/ Well it?s official I am no longer a consultant at infoUSA now I am the graphical user interface developer for SalesGenie. This of course keeps me extremely busy. I have also been busy learning all the ins and outs of .NET and C#. I have been busy reading numerous books ... http://i-create.org/2007/09/29/cakephp_and_more/ It is about someone else stepped into wireless and let consumers do as they please. Just look at how arrogant these companies have become over the years sprint evidently believes they have the right to fire their customers. http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2007-07-09-sprint-disconnects-customers_N.htm If that isn't bad enough you ... http://i-create.org/2007/08/04/700_mhz_of_google/ Well it seems the death of on-line radio is near so I guess you kiss all of that free content good by. Although I think we are all bright enough to invent something similar and call it something else. Podcasts are exceptionally handy especially when it comes to ... http://i-create.org/2007/07/06/radio_free_world!_save_net_radio__/ Apollo has recently been renamed as AIR which is pretty cool because AIR is rich Internet application spelled backwards! Expectations are very high for flash lite 3 it is rumored to have flv support which is huge, if you are a developer you should also be aware ... http://i-create.org/2007/07/01/haxe_papervision_3d/ FUD: was first defined by Gene Amdahl after he left IBM to found his own company, Amdahl Corp. : "FUD is the fear, uncertainty, and doubt that IBM sales people instill in the minds of potential customers who might be considering Amdahl products." [1] The term ... http://i-create.org/2007/05/17/microsoft_and_fud/ Well everyone knows that Vector graphic layouts is where it is at! Microsoft recently released it's silverlight project and hot on it's heals sun just made an announced it's Java FX adobe recently made an announced the Flex SDK will be open sourced. In my opinion adobe clearly has ... http://i-create.org/2007/05/14/everyones_doing_it/ Well it is finally out. I have been working on upgrading my Ubuntu box. I am now using ubuntu to run my home network :) I set up Samba and a 400GB share so the four other home computers can link to it. I have also been working on Amaork ... http://i-create.org/2007/05/14/let_your_creativity_fly/