http://blog.robshearing.com Sun, 08 Aug 2010 10:43:37 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The GridGallery is Sydney’s first public and media-based gallery space dedicated solely to the exhibition of digital art. I submitted a piece for the "sound" brief and successfully passed the judging panel. My work then wen on dispay in August 2010. I created the graphics from flash and then screen captured ... http://blog.robshearing.com/archives/235 Those sneaky Russians have had a go at my site! It has effected paycalculator.com.au, blog.robshearing.com and robshearing.com The hack was twofold, extra script was added to one of the copies of swfobject.js and also script was added on the footer template on blog.robshearing.com I have asked google to review the ... http://blog.robshearing.com/archives/243 I have just finished updating paycalculator to include the tax details for 2010 - 2011. Changes are very minor this year including to small adjustment to the tax brackets and increments to the HECS/HELP and SFSS repayments. I also added a calculation for the Low Income Tax Offset. I have ... http://blog.robshearing.com/archives/186 I just updated one of my favorite flash experiments - Earth Sampler. It was written in as2 and is based on a hand coded google map API. Essentially it replicates the quadtree tile referencing to create urls to specific image tiles, eg http://khm1.google.com.au/kh/v=55&t=trttqrttsqrstttrt there t is the quadtree tile reference. ... http://blog.robshearing.com/archives/185 This is for future reference... Flash Players Adobe has made the archived Flash Players available for download at the request of the Flash developer community. Adobe Technical Support does not provide support for the installation or use of the earlier versions. Refer to the readme.txt in each zipped file below for the ... http://blog.robshearing.com/archives/182 I spent an afternoon trying to get my hands on a decent twitter API wrapper for as3. I tried the swx twitter api which is a great idea (bit concerned at how he will maintain and scale this solution) except I ran into a 40kb AMF error for large api ... http://blog.robshearing.com/archives/181 I first came across twitter a while ago, but I have only recently started using it on a regular basis. In recent months it has suddenly exploded in popularity and this has prompted me to make more of an effort to understand it. Watching the recent TED speech by it's ... http://blog.robshearing.com/archives/180 I'm always open to new approaches to the flash workflow. The worst aspect of a flash build is the tedious nature of stage layout, page build animation and asset loading. So to speed up a website build, I recently used the Gaia framework to help build a website. The Gaia ... http://blog.robshearing.com/archives/179 I downloaded the animation data from Radiohead's House of Cards music video from google code and rendered a frame in papervision. It took me about 10 attempts to download one of the zip files, but when I did manage to download it, you get a csv file for each ... http://blog.robshearing.com/archives/146 I just set up AMFPHP on mediaTemple (gs) and I ran into a bit of a problem where I couldn't get any messages back from AMFPHP. I'd get an error of NetConnection.Call.BadVersion which apperas as faultCode:INVALID_AMF_MESSAGE in the service broswer. It turned out to be an incompatability with php 5.2 on ... http://blog.robshearing.com/archives/77 I have put up a new site, paycalculator.com.au that will calculate your net pay. It works for Australian incomes (single) and has the latest tax brackets. It also shows 2006-2007 and 2007-2008 financial years so you can see how the tax system has changed over the years. My pay is ... http://blog.robshearing.com/archives/74 I have just finished my first proper AS3 site (about time). I inherited some work done by another developer, but it was left in a state - I think it got a bit too overwhelming for him. So I decided to rebuild the site structure and add a layer of logic ... http://blog.robshearing.com/archives/79 http://blog.robshearing.com/archives/57 EtsyBuy Handmadeshearing http://blog.robshearing.com/archives/56 Just finished building the json flash feed: http://blog.robshearing.com/wp-flash-json.php I used a handy php JSON parser to encode the string. I'm not entirely convinced about JSON. Evangelists go on about it's inherent readability, however characters have to be escaped and this results in some messy looking text. I see this notation best ... http://blog.robshearing.com/archives/50 I'm working on setting up this wp blog to manage the blog and to act as a CMS for a flash site. I have a Category Visibility plugin that hides website posts and only shows blog entries in the blog. For the non-blog posts I'm adding some custom fields that ... http://blog.robshearing.com/archives/47 I'm getting stuck into AS3 to build my new site and it's not as straight forward as I first thought. Almost everything I have learnt and taken for granted I now have to revisit and rebuild. Generally however, I'm pleased with all the new coding procedures and class re-writes that ... http://blog.robshearing.com/archives/46 A series of tag searches from flickr is done against lyrics to a song. Results are unexpected and amusing. http://www.avoision.com/experiments/astronaut/ This has got me thinking. I might have a go at ths some time, afterall I've already built the engine: flickr rss reader http://blog.robshearing.com/archives/38 A short animated film written, produced & directed by Charles & Ray Eames for the IBM Pavilion for the 1958 Brussels World's Fair. The movie topic is the computer in the context of human development, more specifically it traces the history of storing & analyzing information from the days of ... http://blog.robshearing.com/archives/37 A video has just been added to the onAIR tour: http://onair.adobe.com/blogs/videos/2007/08/01/lee-brimelow-transitioning-to-the-desktop-with-adobe-air/ Lee is great and he works at such a great company too. As for all this AIR, I really have to get started. The results are so much similar to ZINC, but with a much cleaner interface (and I presume more ... http://blog.robshearing.com/archives/35 I heard a lot about Erik Natzke way back in flash 5 days. He had a really intersting experimental showcase site. I remember his work was massively respected. Then he disappeared - his site went down and I didn't hear much about him. So the other day I stumbled over ... http://blog.robshearing.com/archives/34 The style of this site comes from Brazil. I don't know who he is, I just spotted the style at video.onflex.org. I have however got really stuck into customising it for my own pleasure. I have stripped out all that sidebar nonsence and categories and reduced it to a ... http://blog.robshearing.com/archives/28 I saw this mesh wave thing, and I thought it would be a good effect to replicate in AS3. I had a good idea that the wave used perlin noise mapped onto a 3D perspective. Check it. I built it in AS2 to see the speed difference and it was ... http://blog.robshearing.com/archives/27 Apollo is the future. It brings websites to the desktop. http://video.onflex.org/2007/03/19/apollo-camp-keynote-from-kevin-lynch/ http://blog.robshearing.com/archives/26 This is a stop-motion animation of an old pole position game where people sitting in a grid of chairs are used to render the pixel graphics. It took 6 hours and required 600 images. Now I think I could do the same type of thing in flash and make it ... http://blog.robshearing.com/archives/25 Fontifier turns your own handwriting into a typeface. You print out a sheet that has all the standard characters laid out with a space for you to you write in (or draw in). Then you scan it, upload the image and the software turns it into a font! This font ... http://blog.robshearing.com/archives/21 This dude is amazing. He is the one behind we feel fine and universe. Cool hunting have featured him. Check out his website www.number27.org, he has done all sorts of stuff. He also talks about his work at the TED conference http://blog.robshearing.com/archives/20 The film Helvetica has finally been released. Coming soon to Sydney..... maybe ... maybe not. http://blog.robshearing.com/archives/18 http://blog.robshearing.com/archives/14 For more widgets visit www.yourminis.com http://blog.robshearing.com/archives/13 Can't beat the photograph, check out the depth of field. http://blog.robshearing.com/archives/10 Barry McNamara on the US Google's master plan Royksopp - Remind me http://blog.robshearing.com/archives/16 Lawrence Crew's going all the way with his little 3D mouse that he developed for his end of year project. His business site: http://www.cylo.com.au/ http://blog.robshearing.com/archives/15 hello world http://blog.robshearing.com/archives/3