Natural Language Mashups with Ubiquity

08/27/2008 01:26 pm by Steven Webster in General

So you fire up your browser, you type "Book a flight to Chicago next Monday to Thursday, no red-eyes, the cheapest. Then, email my friends the itinerary and add it to my calendar". Your browser responds with: This is the aim of the Ubiquity project at Mozilla, which aims to parse natural language queries to create on-the-fly mashups. In the words of the Mozilla team, it's about "connecting the Web with language in an attempt to find new user interfaces that could make it possible for everyone to do common Web tasks more quickly and easily." This is a...

Less than a week left for Singularity Web Conference early bird tickets - $99

08/27/2008 11:55 am by Aral Balkan in Conferences

A quick heads up: early bird pricing for the Singularity Web Conference ends August 31, 2008. Get your tickets for just $99 today. We've been adding new speakers and sessions and confirming local conference hubs. We are also going to be announcing our new sponsors today, The Guardian, .Net Magazine, and our very own Pistach.io. Get your tickets [...]

Joel Geraci Explains SWFs Embedded In Acrobat

08/27/2008 11:23 am by Ben Forta's Blog in Acrobat

Acrobat 9 supports the embedding of Flash/Flex based SWF files within PDF documents. In addition to supporting SWF playback, this capability exposes functionality found only in Acrobat, as explained in this post by Acrobat Technical Evangelist Joel Gearci.

Tamarin, ActionScript And ECMAScript: Where To Now?

08/27/2008 08:43 am in Flash

I’ve tried not to get too riled up over the demise of the ECMAScript 4 draft spec and the political accusations that have been chucked back and forth. You know, the whole MS, Yahoo, Apple vs Adobe, Mozilla, Google soap opera. Anyway, I’ve read quite a bit of the inflammatory stuff over the last couple [...]

Transparency Means Little Without Integrity

08/27/2008 07:52 am in Misc

LibraryThing’s Tim Spalding might just have renewed my belief in transparency. Skip the spin, deliver the truth and stand by your convictions with competitors and users. Transparency has been a trendy web 2.0 business tenet for awhile and I’ve been a huge fanboi, but after reading Tim’s post I realized I had only seen half [...]

AS3 | Actionscript 3 Classes

08/27/2008 12:00 am by Flash Enabled Blog in Other

Here is another post full of new AS3 classes, you cn use in your own projects. - Pixelator - Transition effect A class that take two displayobjects and create a transition between the both - GraphicsUtil - A Utility Class for Drawing Arrows Actionscript class for drawing arrows. ACTIONSCRIPT DRAWING CLASSES com.jR.Drawing.Base com.jR.Drawing.Ellipse com.jR.Drawing.Polygon com.jR.Drawing.Rectangle com.jR.Drawing.Triangle - FullScreen Object Resize Class The NpFSObjectResize Class is a fairly simple [...]

An open source data export solution for Amazon SimpleDB

08/26/2008 11:43 pm by Aral Balkan in Pistach.io

An open source data export solution for Amazon SimpleDB, courtesy of Pistach.io. Check out Dave's post for details.

Club Penguin Scores Penner

08/26/2008 06:49 pm in Flash

TechNote Explains How To Stream Images In ColdFusion

08/26/2008 05:23 pm by Ben Forta's Blog in ColdFusion

A TechNote posted last week explains how to stream images in ColdFusion, and provides simple sample code.

FlashForward Preso Posted

08/26/2008 03:59 pm by BitchWhoCodes in

I just got home from Flash Forward late last night - checked my inbox and I must have got somewhere around 20 emails about my presentation.

I have posted my presentation - both the keynote and the pdf. Feel free to use it/abuse it, pass it on. You can download the presentation here.

Thanks for all the great feedback - its really nice to hear that people enjoyed the presentation. At one point I was laughing so hard I was unsure I was going to be able to continue...

Big thanks to Brandon Hall for being my tech guy that entire day, fixing my Britney mic and for generally just putting up with me. Its an honour and a pleasure to share the stage with the people that I did - many people who have inspired me over the years - damn I remember

Finally - give your feedback about FlashForward to the organizers - speakers you liked, about the format , etc. It only helps to make the conference better.

6 Months of AIR, What have you built?

08/26/2008 02:30 pm by EverythingFlex in Adobe AIR

This week marks 6 months since Adobe AIR was officially released. So my questions to you are the following. (please reply in comments as I am interested in seeing the communities opinions) Have you been building applications that are simply for fun or have you developed an AIR application that is in production for a business [...]

iPhone on holidays

08/26/2008 11:08 am by sephiroth.it - flash & php in iphone sdk

Welcome back everybody!
I just want to share with you my little experience I had with the iPhone sdk during my summer holidays.

This year I haven't spent my holidays on the beach, like usual, because I just bought home and so I had to put up everything... that's why I decided to devote some of the free time to try out objective-c. I wanted to make something for the iphone since I bought it in March in NYC but I never had the free time to do that..

First of all I had to buy a new Mac-mini because the iphone sdk is not supported on my old mac-mini ppc. Then I had to subscribe to the developer program for $99 because otherwise I was unable to test applications on my iphone, but only on the simulator (cool, I have to pay to install my own applications on my iphone!).

Well, after reading a bit the documentation, watching some video tutorials and looking at example code I started with my first application. What I wanted to do was a simple SMS application to show sms received, sent and a simple search. A very simple app but for me better than the limited built-in iphone sms application.

After a couple of days I reached my goal, but not without troubles. There's nothing inside the iphone documentation about the SMS system.

Afterward using an "UPDATE" sqlite query I was getting an error: "SQL error: no such function: read", and obviously there was nothing in the doc explaining this. Only after half a day I discovered that I had to create a C method and use sqlite_create_function in order to bypass that error:

const char *fn_name = "read"; 
sqlite3_create_function(database, fn_name, 1, SQLITE_INTEGER, nil, sqlite_fn_read, nil, nil);

Now that everything with the db was fine I had to google a bit in order to find a way to implements features like "reply", "forward" or "call" (basic features in a telephone, but not covered in the iphone sdk documentation).

Finally, after a long debug and Instruments session to find leaks ( I must admit xcode has some powerful tools for debugging and inpect apps) I installed my first application on my own iphone.

And big big surprise!! On the iphone my application is unable to mark messages as read and delete messages too!
In other words it is unable to write into the sms.db!

And Why?
That's because a beautiful sandbox which does not allow applications to write outside their scope! Oh, cool! That's correct, but in this case you, Apple, must give me an API which wraps those features!
They gave an SDK for developing on a mobile phone but they don't grant access to any of the telephone features?!?

The Twitter Song: You’re No One If You’re Not On Twitter

08/26/2008 10:19 am by Brajeshwar in Asides

You're no one if you're not on Twitter; And if you aren't there already you've missed it. If you haven't been bookmarked, retweeted and blogged; You might as well not have existed.

Adobe Photoshop.com goes on mobile,a Flash Lite application for Windows Mobile devices

08/26/2008 09:28 am by Marco Casario | RIAvolutionize the web in FlashLite

Adobe has announced the mobile version for Photoshop.com . Photoshop mobile will allow users to upload, view, and share photos online from your mobile devices with Windows Mobile system. It seems that Symbian Flash Lite devices will be supported :( It's a shame that the first consumer-oriented mobile application developed by Adobe won't support Nokia (Symbian) Flash Lite enabled mobile devices but only Palm devices. I don't want to buy a Palm :)

Flex spotted on TV

08/26/2008 04:06 am by Doug McCune in Flex

I came across a video of a segment that aired on Fox Business News about HotPads.com, which is an online housing search website (rentals, sales, etc). As I was watching the clip I noticed that beautiful little preloader we’ve all come to know and love HotPads uses a custom map engine they developed [...]

Using the bend modifier with Collada objects

08/26/2008 12:11 am by Everyday Flash in 3D

Papervision3D comes with a set of primitive 3d shapes - such as a plane, a cube and a sphere. It is possible to do quite a lot with those, but the real power lies in importing objects from 3d editors like Maya, 3dsmax or, in that case - Blender. In Papervision3D, the format of choice [...]

Frameworks | Papervision 3D Web Roundup - Tutorials and Sources

08/26/2008 12:00 am by Flash Enabled Blog in AS3

Flash 3D engines brought to Internet a new dimension to designers present their work. Great works were made since Papervision 3D and other know 3D engines appeared. Today i bring you some cool stuff, that you can use in your own projects. If you don’t know yet how to start with Papervision 3d you might [...]

Charts zoom / range selector (version 1)

08/25/2008 11:15 pm in Charts

(long time… working now with Silverlight, I thought to jump back to the fun stuff) This is a simple range selector on a chart, to be used for zooming in my case. It is very simple and some of the code is borrowed (I can’t remember where from), nothing fancy here but I wanted to publish it [...]

Video - See Flash 10, Flex 4, AIR 1.5, FXG, Thermo, Degrafa and more

08/25/2008 09:20 pm in Adobe AIR

I usually avoid any online video presentations that last longer than 15 minutes (my attention span limit), but in this case, I made an exception. This one hour and ten minute video is loaded with some VERY good content including information and demos of Flash 10, Flex 4, AIR 1.5, FXG / MXMLG, Thermo and [...]

Must Kill Interlacing: Getting Quality h.264 Screen Video Out Of After Effects

08/25/2008 07:07 pm in After Effects

While converting a Jing swf to h.264 with AfterEffects I was really struggling to get video that looked reasonable using the h.264 profile built into AE. I was massively ramping up bitrate settings without any noticeable improvements. Strangely things looked ok when played back in QuickTime, but not so great in Flash Player. After a [...]

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