Archive | March, 2008

100 Posts! A retrospective and the best links from my blog.

TADAAAAA ! This post is the 100th blog post on my blog. Its been a fun ride so I figured I wrote a bit on the history of this blog as well as link to my favorite posts here. Part of the Comcast Interactive Media Flash Team at Flash Forward, Austin, 2006. The Fan 3.0 [...]

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Flex development within teams: Using patches to update projects

Working in teams on Flex projects requires some discipline, something we at CIM are learning fast as our projects grow beyond individual developers. We have always used version control but traditionally, we have worked with open libraries that all developers had access to. Anyone could commit to the repositories and everyone checked out the latest [...]

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Can PicLens be done in just Flash and Papervision3d ? Here ya go !

PicLens has been one of the new interfaces that has wowed quite a bit of people I know (including myself). But the application is written in native code and needs to be installed on your computer as a plugin to be usable. Off late I have been playing with Papervision3D a bit and I figured [...]

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Photowall: Scroll based data prefetch

Photowall is part 1 of a secret project I am working on (secret only since I am not sure part 2 will work, so I’d rather not declare yet what its about ). This component on its own is an exercise in data-prefetch. The idea is to load data as the user scrolls to the [...]

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