I finally got an iPhone. After playing with it for a day I decided to Jailbreak it. I hacked my little brother’s Touch back in October using Erica Sadun’s partial instructions, which was a little hairy as it was a transitional period where new firmware had been released but know one had released a GUI [...]
Tags: iPhone
I was recently given some videos using the RV1.0 video codec which isn’t available for the Real Player 11 Beta on have running on my media mac. After doing some research I discovered that Real Player 10 has the codec. I went to download it from Real Player’s site, maybe there is a simple way [...]
Tags: Media, Real Player
Eclipse – “Available Memory is Low” Available Memory is LowMyEclipse has detected that less than 5% of the 64MB of Perm Gen (Non-heap memory) space remains. It is strongly recommended that you exit and restart MyEclipse with new virtual machien memory parameters to increase this memory, Failure to do so can result in data loss. [...]
My PC free obsession has made it into the living room. A while back I decided I wanted to hook a computer up to my TV. I started out with a Video iPod and an Apple iPod AV Cable I got from the Apple Store. This works great, my only complaint is that it takes [...]
Tags: Media
WankenBerry is a PHP script I wrote to minify and concatenate JavaScript and CSS files on the fly. This way you can work on several small files that are formatted nicely and have the server optimize them for you. When you hit the server with your browser it checks for the cache file and if [...]
Yesterday I was trying to deserialize a JSON object in flash. The object was delivered from a JSP app that I didn’t have access to. The object was written out on a single line with no spaces. Which is as it should be for optimization reasons, but it was very hard to decipher. So I [...]
Tags: AJAX, JavaScript, JSON
To illustrate adding statefulness to our application I’m going to add a flash music player to our application. Using web 1.0 techniques getting our player to remain static would require either a pop-up or some sort of frames setup. We’re going to add the player to the masthead of our page and let the ajax [...]
The Ajax Anchor Component allows you to quickly create ajax applications with a minimal amount of code. When the component is initialized it looks for anchor elements with rel attributes starting with a hash. Like this:
Tags: AJAX, HTML, JavaScript, Prototype
Earlier today at Humaniz we were making fun of evil web practices like background sounds and I got the idea of playing a sound in IE using CSS expressions, which are in general another evil practice, although sometimes necessary. After I got this bad boy working in IE I thought I would make it cross [...]
Tags: Cow Bell, CSS, JavaScript
This is very much the kind of demo you would expect to find in 90s game programming books. The random line generator. It draws randomly colored lines in with random coordinates. Here is the code: 1 <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN” “http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd”> 2 <html> 3 <head> 4 <title>Random Lines</title> 5 <meta http-equiv=”Content-Type” content=”text/html; [...]