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Hybrid vydaji nove CD nahravane s prazskym symfonickym orchestrem. Uvodni track je zde http://vimeo.com/9552552 (via @viktorbezdek) [vancura]
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RT @thibault_imbert: Flash Player 10.1 BETA 3 LIVE on LABS@ADOBE http://bit.ly/TBd1 (via @__ted__) [vancura]
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SSDs and the MacBook Pro: http://✪df.ws/enw (via @daringfireball) [vancura]
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Kids are finally in beds. Time to work. [vancura]
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I love http://imageoptim.pornel.net, lossless PNG optimizer. It nearly always saves around 40 % of all PNG files used. [vancura]
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Together with Photoshop’s Posterize filter it’s a lifesaver. [vancura]
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A dost! Tohle je uz fakt jak ze Sicilie: http://bit.ly/dhXYxb #jancik #mafie (via @josefslerka & @bzzzwa) [vancura]
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Updated my profile picture from Le Petit Dummy iPhone app. #LePetitDummy [vancura]
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LOL (via @kleptomancz): Doporučuju film Katka – už dlouho jsem neviděl tak depresivní film/dokument. [vancura]
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Vojta discovered AppStore. So many new games! (pretty boring for me to install it whenever he founds one, at least he’s happy w/ lite apps). [vancura]
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Time to kill foursquare. Not very useful for someone with two kids :] [vancura]
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Updated my profile picture from Le Petit Dummy iPhone app. #LePetitDummy [vancura]
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I think I need to put passcodes onto all gadgets around. Yesterday I got an invoice from Apple for €3 game I had no clue I have installed. [vancura]
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Home Sheep Home. Lovely Shaun the Sheep game with Box2D physics. http://bit.ly/9XA29N [vancura]
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Blog.
Welcome to my blog.
This is the place where I share my thoughts,
sometimes in English and sometimes in Czech.
Feel free to comment, I love to read comments!
Weekly Digest for March 2nd
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Weekly Digest for February 23rd
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Weekly Digest for February 16th
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Aperture 3 out! http://www.apple.com/aperture/ [vancura]
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Apple has a really nice HTML5 video player: http://bit.ly/4KW7t9 [vancura]
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Cool stuff: LESS CSS App for Mac OS X: http://✪df.ws/el0 (via @daringfireball) [vancura]
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Open http://digg.com and view the source. Nuts! [vancura]
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Shared 2 photos.
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RT @fwa: Legwork Studio illustrated by hand and developed in Java Script. http://www.legworkstudio.com/ [vancura]
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Liked 2 videos.
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RT @thibault_imbert: Core animation Flash concerns on Mac blog post by Tinic Uro http://bit.ly/c3ZUWd (via @tekool) [vancura]
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Shocked. A good friend just SMSed me they gave birth to twins. Hell I didn’t even know he has a wife! How can it be that he was hiding that? [vancura]
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Shared 2009-07-11 at 20-08-18.
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Howgh. I should not drink that much coffee in the morning :] [vancura]
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Meat stylus for those who don’t want to take off their gloves to use their iPhones: http://bit.ly/bdNJM3 [vancura]
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Shared 3 links.
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Shared Kobylisy.
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Liked POCOYO – ELLYS DOLL.
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Liked Vegeterrible.
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Shared Green.
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Optimizing Mobile Content for the Adobe Flash Platform by Thibault Imbert: http://bit.ly/aVZVCS [vancura]
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Shared 2 links.
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FP 10.1 will reduce bitmaps to 16 bit color depth on 16 bit screens. Sounds dangerous if you use them for calculations. (via @Quasimondo) [vancura]
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Weekly Digest for February 9th
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RT @binaryage: Visor users: Steve shared his Zsh prompt: http://bit.ly/9LTBTj → @vjt, @jimmac [vancura]
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Apple Confidential: The Acquisition Of NEXT http://instapaper.com/zuugxlpg [vancura]
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RT @dr_win: RT @binaryage: TotalFinder 0.7 is here for everyone. Featuring dual panes: http://blog.binaryage.com/totalfinder-with-dual-mode [vancura]
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RT @binaryage: TotalFinder 0.7 is here for everyone. Featuring dual panes: http://blog.binaryage.com/totalfinder-with-dual-mode [vancura]
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Shared 5 links.
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#TotalFinder. Totally rad. [vancura]
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Lost: WTF? [vancura]
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When I built the original PerformanceTest, I hacked it together quickly to meet a specific need I had at the time. As I used … |
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Sometimes you just need a placeholder image right at your finger tips. Just enter the width + x + height at the end of this U… |
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This is so great! My Mighty Moue scrolls again! http://bit.ly/Dl4s5 [vancura]
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Shared Mejdan.
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Shared 3 links.
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MumboJumboT: Done
I am finally done with the MumboJumboT project.
As you may know from this blog, I recently wrote a few paragraphs about progress of the project. And there is even MumboJumboT’s Twitter stream with more detailed tweets. But — believe me, it’s hard to tell — now I am not very happy with the results and I have to confess I failed on several places.
First, as usual, I was way too optimistic. I thought I’d be able to code more and harder, but it was not really possible for several reasons. Just a few hours before I started the project I had finished another long term job and hence I was somewhat tired. Our kids were sick two days as well and on the end I was lazy too :) As you may know I planned to create a blabbing machine. And… Failed. Sorry about that, next time I’ll think twice before I start a project like this one.
But! I think even with my failures I’ve got something for you. The MumboJumboT project lite. Very lite. If you’re interested, I’d be glad to show you my humble Adobe AIR application, which you can install by clicking the badge here.
So what is it all about?
This is just an eye candy and mainly a tutorial AIR app. You can click links below to read more on how the project was done and meanwhile you can play with it.
MumboJumboT allows you to:
Load a sample song (thanks to Jakub Steiner aka Jimmac for The Sphere song from his Organic album, the other song done by me),
Load your very own Ogg Vorbis file (info on Xiph.org as well),
Play an Ogg file — actually it was not possible before, because Flash knows just MP3s. If you don’t want to get into dirty details on the Wiki page, you just need to know Ogg provides much higher quality on lower bitrates. The playback is done by Branden Hall’s Ogg Vorbis Alchemy port, heavily altered by me for purposes of this app,
Somewhat visualize the playback.
That’s pretty much for now, so let’s continue on the code stuff.
MumboJumboT code
You can read everything about the project’s code on the documentation page of the MumboJumboT project. Please don’t forget to visit its GitHub repository.
What you will learn:
PureMVC and Startup Manager
PureMVC is a cool Model-View-Controller framework aimed to help you to create cleaner code in several languages. And its Startup Manager is a good way how to put initialization of your application in a queue, while following each Proxy requirements.
- Application facade (Documentation and code)
- Application mediator (Documentation and code)
- Loading and queue of proxies (Documentation and code)
Config files
Here you can see my Proxy helping to easily parse config XML settings. The online flavour allows you to merge parsed settings with FlashVars. You can localize the app from the config XML as well, you know, it’s not a good thing to have any static text in the SWF (it obviously doesn’t apply to the logging output).
- Config proxy (Documentation and code)
AIR Updates
Adobe AIR platform allows applications to self-update when there’s a new version available. See the code below to see how to do that:
- Checking for updates (Documentation and code)
Away3D
Away3D is a well known 3D library. And its new Lite flavour finally provides hardware acceleration via Flash 10 postcards in space acceleration features.
- Spinbox (Documentation and code)
- Spinbox Mediator (Documentation and code)
OGG Decoding
As I wrote above, thanks to Branden Hall I was able to use Ogg Vorbis files in the app, even it was not possible before.
- Ogg Vorbis Decoder (code)
- Sample Proxy (Documentation and code)
Advanced mouse controls
You can see there’s a somewhat sick mouse handler allowing you to drag-and-rotate so called Spinbox.
- Mouse Proxy (Documentation and code)
Skinning
Here you can see how to skin the app with my vancura-as3-libs library. Download the skin folder here.
Mocking up
Just to revisit what was written in previous articles, here’s an archive of PSD files you can download. Just in case you’d be interested on how the GUI part was done.
You can watch a screencast of the mocking up on Vimeo.
Legal stuff
Licensed under Attribution-Share Alike (CC) license. OGG Alchemy Decoder by Branden Hall and Xiph.org Foundation. More info RaveIN font by Jakub Steiner aka Jimmac.
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Weekly Digest for February 2nd
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Daring Fireball: Apple, Adobe and Flash. http://bit.ly/6DqwVe [vancura]
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Shared MumboJumboT.
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Liked 1st walk.
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New post: #MumboJumboT graphics is ready. Includes video #screencast of how it was done. http://bit.ly/bkH2SK [vancura]
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GrApple Firefox theme is nice. One thing I don’t like about Chrome: it’s ugly (at least on OSX). Should I switch to FF? http://bit.ly/UwNkk [vancura]
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RT @robinraszka: RT @goobimama: Prediction: That mole @atebits knew all about the tablet, and has helped Apple develop a Tweetie on laun … [vancura]
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IMHO this is the best live stream about the #iPad: http://bit.ly/7ibWl5. Btw I failed to shut down Twitter :] [vancura]
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Ok. Where’s iPhone SDK 4? Or… Well… iPad SDK 1? [vancura]
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IPS display? What the? Seriously? [vancura]
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“We’ve been able to achieve 10 hours of battery life.” Big applause. “But you need to have a protective suit when using it." [vancura]
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"Tap on the 2x button, it scales the app up to full-screen" — I hope it uses linear rescaling, with no smoothing. [vancura]
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Note: iPhone OS 3.2 does not support iPhone and iPod touch devices. It runs only on iPad. Megalol. @robinraszka [vancura]
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RT @diveintomark: Let’s see… 3G iPad is shipping in 90 days… wife’s birthday is… ah fuck, I’m buying an iPad. #nobodygivesashitabo … [vancura]
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While Flex uses bilinear resizing method when scaling images (event for Bitmap.smoothing() method), you won’t be able to ge… |
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Listened to 2 songs.
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Liked Nintendo Illusion!.
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"iPad is not a big stretched-out iPhone, but iPhone is a shrunken stripped-down version of the iPad". Very mature. Via @daringfireball [vancura]
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Re Apple A4 processor: "PA Semi founder Dan Dobberpuhl was a lead designer at Digital on Alpha and StrongARM processors". Anybody surprised? [vancura]
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The iPad simulator in SDK 3.2 is great, even there’s just Settings.app and Contacts.app. Oh wait, there’s an NDA, yuck. Now I’ll go to hell. [vancura]
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Re my tweet http://bit.ly/ciWPHp about rescaling of old iPhone apps: it’s linear! (that’s good news) — http://bit.ly/b5JXjE — @ornyx [vancura]
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Joe Hewitt on iPad, UX and app development. Must read. http://bit.ly/9ondMW [vancura]
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Shared 2 links.
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Listened to Thank You for Calling – Dino Psaras.
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It’s so funny to watch all these Flash vs. Apple fights. Come on guys, it’s just a technology, nothing really special. [vancura]
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Shared 3 links.
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Shared 2 photos.
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MumboJumboT: Day 2
Ok, here’s a weather forecast for today: coding coding coding, since main graphics of the MumboJumboT project is done done done.
MumboJumboT body
The space in the middle will be canvas for all audio controls and displays. I am not entirely happy with his head, so I’ll revisit it at some point. I planned to make it in 3D (rotating while playing), but maybe I’ll keep it static, while making it richer (I think robot needs ears, antennae etc). PSD is here.
Screencast
While drawing I recorded a movie you can watch here:
Now what
So now let’s jump into coders’ world. Don’t forget to follow @MumboJumboT on Twitter!
Update
MumboJumboT project is done. Read more here.
Weekly Digest for January 26th
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Apple’s Secret Cloud Strategy And Why Lala Is Critical http://instapaper.com/zi0qp5p9 [vancura]
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Shared 2 links.
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Listened to Rogue Bagel – Ott.
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Please recommend me some good movie with zombies to watch tomorrow :] [vancura]
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Zombieland is the winner! Thanks to everyone who participated on the poll. Now where to find it ;] [vancura]
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That was not a question, I know where to look, but thanks :] [vancura]
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Liked 3 videos.
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#Avatar: Making of. http://bit.ly/8F6Blu (via @alexoid). You should see it now, as you had to see Avatar before. [vancura]
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Vimeo Introduces HTML5 H.264 Player: http://✪df.ws/ehh (via @daringfireball) [vancura]
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ignore the code: Realism in UI Design http://ff.im/-eE2s4 [vancura]
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Great news! Finally! Aperture 3 to be released next week? http://bit.ly/7F3HCq (via @phototuts) [vancura]
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Listened to Slinky Wizard – Slinky Wizard.
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This is great. Share with FlickrTab on Facebook. http://ff.im/-eFXwt [vancura]
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Liked 4 videos.
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The goal: on Sunday a nifty audio mixing and visualizing application has to be done. Realtime work with audio and a lot of fun guaranteed. [vancura]
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And of course everything available on #GitHub! Come on, let’s make some fun now. Time is ticking. #mumbojumbot [vancura]
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Maybe I was not clear enough about the #MumboJumboT project: it’s solely done by me: graphics, coding, samples, distribution, promo. [vancura]
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With this Plugin you can style your markup right in your browser with a build-in element selector and CSS editor. Generate th… |
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If this is The Thing I am lost. I need it NOW! It’s so cute! #Apple #tablet. http://ff.im/-eR3Q5 [vancura]
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Ikea time. [vancura]
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MumboJumboT: Day 1
Ok, here’s the last day’s news digest on the MumboJumboT project.
Unfortunately on the first day I was not really working as hard as I would need. Mainly because I finished a large project yesterday morning and I was not so fresh. I need to concentrate more during next few days, so I won’t be a promising looser.
But there were few things I’ve successfully done. First, I made a Twitter account. Pretty sweet, huh :]
Then there was the logotype. The application is based on a concept of a robot blabbing nonsense. Because I’ll use Away3D library, everything will be somewhat raw – boxes and angles everywhere. That should be OK for a robot, except Eva from Wall-E nearly all robots are made of boxes.
Logo
I was not entirely happy with boxy look, so I needed to make it softer somehow. Hence I added the key to the right side. My robot, MumboJumboT, will have a similar key, hopefully rotating while playing.
Then I needed to come up with a Twitter background and of course an avatar. Here’s a screenshot of current state of MumboJumboT’s Twitter home:
Click the image to see the full resolution.
As promised, here you can have PSDs I created.
Source code
Yesterday I was also happy to prepare a functional AIR source base I can use now. It’s deployed to the GitHub repo I’ve prepared for the project.
So now it’s the second day and I need to continue. Today I want to prepare all graphics assets I will need. Watch the MumboJumboT’s Twitter stream at @mumbojumbot for more information about the progress.
Update
MumboJumboT project is done. Read more here.
MumboJumboT
Since today I’ll be working on a small one week project, something like a workshop. I’d be glad to prepare an application for realtime visualization of audio.
I love this kind of projects: you got a limited time – 7 days should be enough to prepare a small application. Game, audio or video stuff, you name it. When you work alone, you could manage your time more precisely, there’s no one who tells you what to do and what you should avoid. It’s solely your work and you can do whatever you want to – but it has to be done before the deadline, which can’t be moved in any circumstances.
This time I’ll prepare a small audio application. No business plan, no desires to sell it. No visible sight of making money of it. Just simple fun. This app was on paper for too long and this contest made me start it.
The app will mix samples in a never-ending stream of blabs. Everything will be mixed randomly from predefined settings, adjustable by you. And most importantly you’ll be able to make your very own generator by recording audio from your computer’s Line In or Microphone input.
I want to show you some of technologies I developed during last few years. GUI widgets with loadable skins, audio processing (I made few multitrack sequencers and mixers), a slice of 3D rendering. All Model-View-Controller via PureMVC.
I want to use these technologies if you’re interested to know:
- Air 2.0 beta
- Ogg Vorbis / Alchemy
- PureMVC
- Away3D Lite
- PopForge
- BulkLoader
- DestroyToday’s Scale9Bitmap (slightly changed by me)
- Greensock TweenMax
- and a small help of my libraries.
If you want to take a few lessons from ActionScript and these areas, this project is a lovely place to start. I did not tell you? Everything I am going to produce here will be licensed as Creative Commons, open for everybody. And that doesn’t apply only to source codes, I am talking about assets, source PSDs, illustrations, samples etc.
So if you’re interested in what I am going to come up with in next 6.5 days, enjoy me on the voyage. It will be a rather fast, but very fun trip. Watch this place and Twitter stream at @mumbojumbot.
Update
MumboJumboT project is done. Read more here.
Weekly Digest for January 19th
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Shared 3 links.
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Listened to Silver (OTT remix) – Tripswitch.
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Listened to 4 songs.
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AsciiMeo. Wow Peter took the time to do this :) Look forward to the HTML5 video / Canvas / JS version ;)http://www (cont) http://tl.gd/4a717 [vancura]
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Weekly Digest for January 17th
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After few months I was forced to launch Flash IDE. I think I’ll miss a lot of hair when done. I’m so glad my workflow doesnt need it anymore [vancura]
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Liked 2 videos.
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#Away3D Lite is so awesome. If you’re thinking about learning #Papervision3D, think twice. [vancura]
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RT @timknip: Creepy RT @davewiner: A Google only your nightmares could love. http://r2.ly/qfxk [vancura]
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RT @ericbatterson: Apple quality control (or should I say command) missed this one. #applefail #apple #mac http://twitpic.com/xkapo [vancura]
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Nice deployment filename: 2010-01-11-1.zip. Nice date indeed. [vancura]
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RT @dr_win: RT @binaryage: TotalFinder 0.6: https://dl.getdropbox.com/u/559047/tf/TotalFinder-0.6.dmg [vancura]
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RT @karmiq: Přečtěte si na @zdrojak, jak snadno lze v Gitu upravovat historii: http://bit.ly/6uMXqK [vancura]
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Liked 3 videos.
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The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog: http://bit.ly/4rulOL [vancura]
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Shared Vintage Ad Browser.
100,000+ vintage advertisements to explore |
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Shared 5 links.
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RT @bzzzwa: [cz] RT @abclinuxu: Offtopic: Člověk v tísni: SOS Haiti 4095 4095/0300 nebo „DMS SOSHAITI“ na číslo 87777. [vancura]
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RT @jeresig: http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.4.js Full release notes/blog post early tomorrow, flying to D.C. to meet the team and launch! [vancura]
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Listened to Neon Tetra – Umberloid.
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RT @bzzzwa: Thanks for it: @somafm: We’re testing a 128k AAC feed of Groove Salad. Should sound amazing: http://somafm.com/groovesalad13 … [vancura]
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Shared 7 links.
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Listened to Anything But You – Way Out West.
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RT @jhooks: Robotlegs, AS3-Signals, and the Presentation Model: a different way to get your #robotlegs on http://bit.ly/7pHMaC #blogged [vancura]
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Weekly Digest for March 9th