Adam Howitt's Blog

Animator vs Animation

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For all you flash animators out there I just received a link to the funniest "meta-movie" I've come across where the animation in Flash rebels against the animator.  Great work by DeviantArt

CFLunch Photos from Ben Forta's visit and sIFR

At : 11:50 AM | Link | Flash, Coldfusion | Comments (6) | Send | 415 Views |

Thanks to Ben Forta for dropping by in January and adding extra credibility to the CFLunch concept I am fostering in Chicago, soon to be Cleveland and soon to be Detroit (whoops!) Denver. I've just added a photo section to the site and uploaded some great resources from yesterday's meeting on sIFR, PDF generation, web standards and CSS.

Danilo Celic introduced sIFR to us and is planning an article with Macromedia later this month I believe. From my own understanding of the information Danilo and Jeff discussed yesterday, the Scalable Inman Flash Replacement (sIFR) is a technique for delivering rich typography to the browser which is standards-compliant and accessible. I'm off to read about it...

Frogger, by Vexcom

At : 11:09 AM | Link | Flash, Coldfusion | Comments (1) | Send | 602 Views |

Wesley Warren's Vexcom have put together a fun coffee break filler based on Frogger called eFrogz.com.  Duck and dodge your way past the obstacles in our way as we make our way through the IT wilderness.

Vexcom has regularly sponsored the Atlanta CFUG and offer consulting services in the area.

Thanks for the distraction Wesley.

Topical Flash Scrabble - Walmart

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Here is today's topical Flash Scrabble puzzle brought to you as Walmart announces the 12 Toys of Christmas. I was surprised to see that Cabbage Patch Kids(R) Dolls are back. (Did they ever leave?) I went past the original birthplace of the cabbage patch kids on the way to the North Georgia Mountains earlier this year.

Flash Scrabble - Clinton

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Due to a tough deadline I've been bad at posting lately besides my election rants so I thought I'd reward you all with a semi regular Flash Scrabble post. I developed this for Adam Jones who was doing this manually but then stopped running the regular spot due to his new job. I'll continue and maybe add a daily competition leaderboard if you sign in. Or not. Anyhow:

Best Flash Postcode App Ever

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This Flash postcode tool from Ben Fry is incredibly good fun to play with. Start typing your zip and it zooms from a map of the US to your zipcode with each entered digit.

Learn Guitar With Flash

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I just came home from my 4th guitar class with the chords and bass pattern to Ring Of Fire by Johnny Cash and after some practise I got it going. In my struggles I couldn't help but wish there was something out there where I can specify the chords, strum pattern, set a tempo and hit play to get a pace partner.

I scanned around and found a fun site called ActionTab.com which has interactive flash fingerpicking demonstrations with two speeds. It is just okay as a tool for beginners - I think I want what I described above though so I'll add it to my todo pile and if I get any spare time to work on this I will post it here when I'm done.

Visual Studio .NET Professional $549!

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You read it right - Visual Studio .NET Professional $549!. If you own a qualifying MS product or Macromedia products or one of the following COMPETING products you are eligible for the discount purchase price:

Competitive products: IBM VisualAge, IBM WebSphere Studio, BEA WebLogic Workshop, Oracle Developer Suite, Oracle JDeveloper, Borland C++ Builder, Borland Enterprise Studio, Borland JBuilder, Borland Delphi, Borland Kylix, WebGain Studio, WebGain VisualCafe, TogetherSoft Together ControlCenter, Sun ONE Studio, Macromedia Studio, Macromedia Dreamweaver, Macromedia Flash, IntelliJ IDEA, Intel C++, Metrowerks CodeWarrior

Talk about agressive marketing strategies to steal programmers away from other languages! I found this by accident as I installed an old copy of Visual Studio 6 on my new laptop for giggles and went thru to register. $549 is pretty cheap for everything that comes in Visual Studio .NET 2003 Pro.

3026 lines of JavaScript and a Flash Communication Server

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Regardless of your opinion on NFL football, check out the incredible work over on the NFL Gamecenter Live site (and hopefully enjoy the Packers getting destroyed).

Not only do the scores update without the page refreshing but it also has audio alerts for the game you are currently watching. I think it is new this week but it scared the pants off me when I heard my computer spring to life as a voice yelled "TOUCHDOWN!". I took the source to seek the Wizard of Oz and it appears to be achieved with a flash swf file connecting for live audio.

This application of web technology works great and it helps me to track the fate of my Bears when all I get to see is Michael Vick having his tantrums because I live in Atlanta.

Turkey Shootout

At : 2:32 PM | Link | Flash | Comments (0) | Send | 521 Views |

A little late or maybe a little early depending on your country of origin. Either way, aim.... fire! This flash turkey shoot game is a festive way to kill some time (sorry for the bad joke but I'm still stuffed full of thanksgiving turkey).