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Installing Red5…
Jun 23rd
Recently working on a videochat application I wanted to use my own VPS server for some real world testing.
Version 0.9 RC2 is the current available for Red5… and after fiddling trying to get things going, I found this cool tutorial which worked like a charm.
Credits of course to the original poster: http://www.videochat-scripts.com/install-red5-0-9-on-linux-ubuntu/
My VPS is currently running on Ubuntu “Lucid” 10.04.
First installed required packages one by one: apt-get install subversion apt-get install java-package apt-get install sun-java6-jdk apt-get install ant
Used arrows to browse to the Ok and confirm on jdk installation dialogs.
Verified installed java version: java -version
Downloaded latest Red5: mkdir -p ~/svn/red5 cd More >
IntelliJ Idea9 AS3/Flex Workflow by Jesse Freeman
Mar 22nd
Recently Jesse Freeman at InsideRIA has been up to making some nice tutorials on using IntelliJ IDEA 9 for Flash/Flex development.
Having turned myself into a IntelliJ 9 addict it was a no brainer to read what the nice man had to write.
Definitely recommended folks!
here you go:
Part 1: http://www.insideria.com/2010/02/intellij-idea9-actionscript-3f.html
Part 2: http://www.insideria.com/2010/03/intellij-idea9-actionscript-3f-1.html
IntelliJ Idea 9 for Flash development
Jan 26th
After quite some time talking about how great IntelliJ feels for Flash development, I just read a really great article on InsideRIA that correctly describes my love and hate… erm… well more like not-so-much-love about IntelliJ.
Here you go folks: http://www.insideria.com/2010/01/intellij-idea-9-for-flash-dev.html
LBi Xmas mobile tree
Dec 11th
I can finally announce my final work while at LBi, and what a work it was! 4 weeks of intense out-of-work-hours coding and planning, but the results are great!
Ill leave you to play… http://xmas.lbi.co.uk ( unfortunately it seems it only lasted christmas )
http://www.lbi.co.uk/our-work/a-christmas-collaboration/
Find more photos like this on The LBi Upcycle Xmas Grotto
…UPDATE:Just saw a cool post you Youtube of the making of! Thanks guys!
RegExr: Online Regular Expression Testing Tool!
Nov 26th
Uhhh… there’s a couple of words that always make my blood freeze and dodge for cover…. “regex” is definitely one of them.
But it seems I need to fear no more… just recently discovered “RegExr”! which has been a great helping hand at solving most of my anyday regex needs.
Its also comunity open, so you can see already alot of user input with new regex solutions for most everyday needs.
Check it out! http://gskinner.com/RegExr/
Have I tapped into the Flash unknown?!?
Jun 25th
Recently doing some addons to a project, I was modifying its factory class, and did the mistake of trying to compile the project with a code which tried to load the main app instance without the application being fully loaded.
This was the weird Flash output that I got…. —————————————————— ÿø{4®)¸ò®Gt,®¯ùXp+äe±Æ}qC^ÇcÓuØapCµ߱F¾/¾9ðqßï³b±àý áÅöXW¼æ Áý³ñþàQWdFÇ×`æ¦24fs±_]ױE¼³9Åì=:¶Æl¯=^ã¼ùþÁÌÜõq²; dÁު±¼/x_p:dÌq<³<·÷ÃuÆòªå÷òX0>äÈúx_ð½ÁûÃëçp|ÜÙð¿` Yc G/x`|,î²`qÉ] ¨eü¯{˝̯bmuÙ_ÿ)>Ç+ö7Ãèx½ÿmaÿ1ÓÆ9`pºì]ö7à û,ÿۣϛeß:HG·ûºðzp!9ßêx«ßbÆIç¡ÎKÍá¶ϡ Òþ!ÏB ½Õ óRZÁ3¡ATB§1Äçts åV÷귋·Ŀ”$ë÷â5¾7qÛk½øzqÅó¿·8~9Þ-W#¨ ³½bÛϺ@ ÅõԵ°[ñ÷fø.8- ³«)-4ºÇL·X1Åìu;2CVWi³ûT\_ãý֯btî=wÚՊ)+î¦^gkê'ş¬·Ëî ç+¦Øó·J¿ç¢â:ݜÓÒáû¡¸]¶<2:;Ô|U9ÇBc1k«X¢Ò×ÅóÅÿ}Åüãï:~/Ûñýð52&¾ ?îý}ìcíêà{cæ¥8sç(6Ècycø÷# ]ãgÆñÁñ>Ìÿܜ[TûcxÖú!÷ëêõªEñ¼Ló7ø7¡Ò”ÌtyÈÎ plð§Øۼ°/îÇ|/ö!#TÓÚ!ä{8½Ò8″äë³FPéùPçô|~p<ÔýPiüb,because crossing the boundary between ActionScript 3.0 and ActionScript 1.0/2.0 objects is not allowed. —————————————————— …I specially like the final english sentence.
Just hope as we ‘type’ that didn’t open some massive black hole at Adobe headquarters sucking More >
Flash native Face Recognition
Jun 10th
Seems these Japanese chaps are enjoying porting cool stuff to Flash.
After Saqoosha’s nicely done port of the ARToolKit to FLARToolKit pattern recognition library,
now we encounter Ohtsuka Masakazu’s port of OpenCV to Marilena.
Realtime Face Detection in Flash from squidder on Vimeo.
Watch it: http://www.squidder.com/2009/02/26/realtime-face-detection-in-flash/
Test it: http://www.quasimondo.com/examples/face_detection/FaceDetector_Camera.html
Source it: http://www.libspark.org/wiki/mash/Marilena
Flash/Flex Effect Generator
Mar 20th
Hello everyone,
Here is a little piece of work I recently bumped into and definitely think the developers deserve a round of applause.
This is a Flash “Effect generator”, highly adjustable, select your assets of whatever media format, add effects, move, pan, stretch, skew, undo, redo, add shadow, mirror, glow… etc…. Loads of options!
Output a screenshot of your piece, add interactions… publish it… do this…. do that…
As you can see, too many things to mention here… Just check it out
“My 2 cents”… http://www.effectgenerator.com/
Yesterday @ Flash Camp
Feb 27th
Yesterday not very far from my office in London, Adobe and other companies like GLUE and .net, sponsored a Flash community ‘get-together’ named “Flash Camp”. ( http://www.flashcamp.co.uk/ )
Though the talks were aimed at a more creative/designer audience, the techies were there making more then half of the room.
The usual publicity numbers were shown by Adobe and short in-depths of future technologies were presented. Mobile is increasingly becoming a priority, with I’m sure you have all seen the numbers, making mobile handsets by far the most sold and used consumer electronics in the world today. Adobe is definitely aware of this and More >
Flash Augmented Reality ?
Feb 5th
Hello everyone,
While this is not a new subject, it does keep amazement going everytime something fresh comes along.
This time the amazement comes from Adobe MAX being held in Japan, where a demo of Flash object recognition capabilities was being demonstrated.
FLARToolKit Demo from Ryan Stewart on Vimeo
This demo comes from what is known as the Spark Project which is an Open source community to develop Flash/ActionScript projects.
For the more tech savvy’s, this is a demo using the FLARToolKit, which is a port from an original Java toolkit called NyARToolKit. “FLARToolkit will detect the marker from input image and calculate the camera position in More >
