2nd
July
2008
I love Twitter. Some people don’t get it, but once you get hooked, you can’t live without it.
I hate Twitter. It’s down half the time. You get me hooked and then, just when I need a fix, you’re gone.
I just got onto the private beta of TweetDeck, installed it, gave it my username and password, and the Twitter failwhale makes an appearance:
I’d boycott Twitter til they got more stable, but that kind of defeats the purpose, doesn’t it?
posted in General |
25th
June
2008
I’ve been trying to play with some of the cool new homebrew music apps on the Nintendo DS. Check the page below for a sampling:
http://remaincalm.org/index.php/ds-music-apps
However, for the life of me, I have been unable to get DSMidiWifi to connect to my Mac Book Pro, or Mac Book.
I’ve followed the instructions here to the letter, and can get a connection without a problem, but every DSMI app I run just sits there saying “connecting…”
I know there are at least a few homebrew alpha geeks out there reading this blog. Has anyone got this working?
posted in General |
24th
June
2008
I’ve been invited, and have accepted, to speak at FlashForward 2008 in San Francisco this August. I’m psyched to visit the city again. It’s always held some kind of fascination for me. As far as the conference, I’m surprised I keep getting invited back. I was pretty critical of the pricing structure last year, and have publicly called into question Beau’s motives in taking over the conference this time around. Constructive criticism? Devil’s advocate? Just being a jerk? I don’t know, but I guess they don’t take my complaining too seriously. And of course, I don’t pass up the free ticket, hotel, and airfare. 
Anyway, Beau and his team are trying something so new it truly shocked me. Basically, it looks like Flashforward is going to be a one-track conference this year, which means that only one speaker will be presenting at any one time, to an audience of roughly 1,200. Whoa. Of course, this means a lot less room for speaker slots, so to compensate for that, each slot is 20 minutes long. hmmm… I don’t even know what I can say in 20 minutes that’s worth what they are paying for me to come out there, but I’m going to do my damnedest to think up something good.
If nothing else, the new format has me very intrigued. I’m not sure if it’s a brilliant idea or totally stupid but I have to applaud the effort to try something new. Anyway, look forward to seeing all the usual cool people, and meeting lot’s more new cool people. Going to take it a little slow this time. I went way overboard the first night in Toronto this year and spent most of the rest of the conference recovering. Beware the flask. It’s deadly.
posted in Flash |
18th
June
2008
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17th
June
2008
These guys are probably the most creative Flash guys out there. I’ve never heard of Julian Venard, but I just spent an hour on his site, listening to his music, exploring.
http://www.julianvelard.com/
Once you get through it, you gotta go through it again with the wefail commentary. Hilarious.
In case you haven’t heard of wefail… http://wefail.com/
posted in Flash |
16th
June
2008
I think I have some fundamental lack of understanding here. I'm trying to use CSS to specify how some HTML text in a text field is rendered. Specifically, I want my bold text to be a bit larger and different color. I have this test code:
Actionscript:
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var tf:TextField = new TextField();
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tf.width = 200;
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tf.multiline = true;
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tf.wordWrap = true;
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addChild(tf);
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var css:String = "h1 { color:#ff0000; font-size: 14;}";
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//var css:String = "b { color:#ff0000; font-size: 14;}";
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var ss:StyleSheet = new StyleSheet();
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ss.parseCSS(css);
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tf.styleSheet = ss;
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tf.htmlText = "<h1>Header</h1><br/>This is <b>bold text</b> here.";
Create a text field, a CSS selector, a style sheet that parses the CSS. Apply it to a text field, assign it some html text. The above works fine, making the h1 header text appear in red. But if I uncomment line 8, and comment the one above it, effectively changing the "h1" to a "b", nothing happens. The bold text is still bold, but not colored and same size as the rest.
I'm no CSS expert, but it seems this kind of thing should be possible. Is this just a funky Flash text field implementation of CSS, or am I not grasping some concept about CSS?
posted in Flash |
10th
June
2008
No, not the music Pandora, this Pandora:
I've been following this for a few months now. Looks like a really cool device. Prototypes recently released to select developers. Should go on sale this month or next. Since my wife and daughter discovered my DS Lite and stole it from me, this may be my next toy (along with an iPhone 3G )
Anyway, just reading through the forums to see what kind of stuff it will run and came across this post:
http://www.gp32x.com/board/index.php?showtopic=41844
Good news.
posted in Flash |
10th
June
2008
If you've emailed me or otherwise tried to contact me in the last couple weeks, and thought I was ignoring you, I wasn't. Was in rural Japan with very intermittent connectivity. I'm back now and will start digging through the backlogged communication.
More info on the trip itself here:
http://keith.bit-101.com/?page_id=48
posted in General |
30th
May
2008
Hanging out in Japan with a messed up body clock, which means I wake up at odd hours of the morning and have nothing much to do. For more on my Japan trip, see my personal blog.
But the last couple of mornings I've been playing with the sound API in Flash Player 10. Managed to come up with a crude version of the Tenori-On in Flash:
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27th
May
2008
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