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The NBC Olympic site and other stupid design choices

Here are a couple of bad design decisions I’ve run into that have ruined my interaction with websites or products. They all relate in some way to Flex and Grails, so I thought I would put them up somewhere. 1. NBC Olympics Site + Silverlight During the olympics, I heard about NBC having full replay of some [...] (translate)

Flexcoders list and Me

While back in 2006 I was really helping people in flexcoders list at yahoo, but I’ve got to stoped due some appointments at work and lot of things to do, Yeah! that’s why should be, but it wasn’t, the fact is the flexcoders is beging bigger and bigger, the ammount of newbie people and many [...] (translate)

Hodgin on iTunes?

If you were at FlashForward in San Francisco a couple of weeks ago you got to hear Robert Hodgin talk about what inspired him, and he showed some of his work. I had seen his work before and really liked it so it was good to hear him talk about what fuels him. Tonight I noticed that his work might be exposed to a LOT more people (if the rumor is true). That's some awesome news for him if it's not just a rumor. Hmm.. I wonder if it'll include this one too? (translate)

Watch GeoEye-1 Launch Tomorrow; Thoughts on the Imagery War

GeoEye, an imagery provider, is launching their latest satellite, GeoEye-1, tomorrow. This satellite will offer half-meter resolution imagery to commercial companies and even greater resolution to government agencies (as high .41 meters). As was widely reported last week, the new imagery has been licensed exclusively to Google for online purposes (CNET has more on the deal's terms). The satellite... (translate)

Microsoft Missing the Boat on Mobile?

Yesterday's Microsoft Watch had an incisive article about Microsoft's failure to compete in the mobile phone marketplace. Echoing my own assertions that Microsoft's obsessive focus on competition with Google in search is a massive distraction, while open mobile is Google's most strategic initiative, Joe Wilcox notes: Microsoft must change its priorities. The company has wasted too much time chasing... (translate)

Change timezone on Ubuntu server (CLI only)

It should be simple to do this and it is. The hardest part was finding the correct way to do it, so for future reference: Using the command line, you can use dpkg-reconfigure tzdata. sudo dpkg-reconfigure tzdata Follow the instructions to reconfigure the timezone. This was taken from the ubuntu wiki article Cheers, Mark (translate)

Pixel Bender .pbj files

If you have been playing with Pixel Bender in Flash Player 10 you know the workflow:Create your .pbk in the Pixel Bender Toolkit.Export a .pbj binary from the Pixel Bender Toolkit.Embed or dynamically load the .pbj file in your ActionScript.There is still some mystery around .pbj files, i.e. the file format is neither documented nor is it clear what exactly it contains. While I can't offer documentation on the file format at this time (although that will happen eventually) what I can offer is an assembler and disassembler I quickly hacked together. I am mostly using for this my own (translate)

Stream Layouts

No, I'm not talking about those things full of water running down the mountainside, I'm talking about how you assemble a full HTML (or whatever) page from a webapp.  Being a Trac user, I've done a bit with Genshi, and then with Grails used SiteMesh, both of which are stream-based engines.  I'd always though the [...] (translate)

Project Rosetta = Where Designers & Developers Come To Play

Today Microsoft went public with Project Rosetta, a web site with a focus on helping developers and designers get up to speed developing Silverlight and WPF applications by taking advantages of the skills they already own. Right now there are 2 articles available on line, one from Cinergy's genius Rick Barraza with a 10 lesson series for designers to make things work in Silverlight; and, Jaime Rodriguez and Karsten Januszewski's The New Iteration booklet, which focus on the Devigner role within the new wave of development. Coming forward the team, lead by Adam Kinney, will be looking for real histories (translate)

September 5, 2008

One of the more notable problems with digital artifacts, besides their ephemeral and intangible nature, is that they tend to lack character. They are produced by machines and they are readily reproducible by other machines without marginal additional effort. They lack the individuality and imperfection that comes from something that was manufactured not as we [...] (translate)

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