Recently I added a color profile to my Photo project. I had a script go through and determine the primary colors in the photo. I then took this data and saved it into a table that. Each color was attached to a photo date for easy querying. Rather than storing HEX values in the database [...]
Flex PieChart with XML input
May 12, 2010
I have been working hard to compile statistics on my photo blog. Currently I have most visited photos and photos by camera. I wanted to create a dynamic chart and luckily, Flex 3 has a charting component that was easy to use. There were a lot of tutorials out there on Flex Charts (mostly bar [...]
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Dynamic Style Sheets with Server Side Scripting
May 5, 2010
We are currently working on redesigning our top level pages at UNC. We are using multiple style sheets to separate out the structure of the page from the colors and typography. All pages will have the same layout but will have different patterns and colors. I want to use one style sheet (rather than multiple) [...]
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Reverse Engineer Nike+ to create an API
May 3, 2010
Earlier in the week we cleaned out the workout room and I started running on our treadmill again. One of the things that I am excited about it the Nike+ program. It tracks runs and keeps statists online about each run. I wanted to add these stats to my blog but Nike doesn’t offer a [...]
Accessing Imported Objects in ActionScript 3
April 26, 2010
I learned the bulk of my understanding of ActionScirpt 3 with UNC’s “Bringing Education to Life Campaign”. I rewrote the code for the base flash file 3 different times, each time updating the code with what I had learned. The site was created using modules, in which if we wanted to add something new, we [...]
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Get FaceBook Comments with PHP
April 21, 2010
Last week I posted a photo on my photo blog and on Flickr of my hops starting to grow. Once uploaded, I went to FaceBook and posted a link to the photo there. A few people commented in different places and it got me thinking about how I receive comments. My photo blog doesn’t receive [...]
Streaming Video with Flash Media Live Encoder
April 19, 2010
Last month I wrote about streaming video to a media server via flash. I wrote a script that published to a flash media server and another script to play the stream off the server. This solution proved clunky since I was unable to set the quality settings correctly. Late last week I had another meeting [...]
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HTML5 Video Basics
April 7, 2010
With the launch of the iPad earlier this week a lot of video sites have been frantically reworking their code so it will display correctly. The iPad doesn’t run flash (which is the most popular video distribution platform) but does run videos using HTML5. I don’t believe that HTML5 is a flash killer yet. It [...]
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How to Track Clicks in Flash Files with
Google Analytics
March 31, 2010
Recently at the University of Northern Colorado we launched our new brand, “Bringing Education to Life”. As part of the launch the web team was charged with coming up with a landing website for the brand. The site was created in Flash and when you click on different links, it uses the UILoader component in [...]
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Publishing Live Video with AS3 to a
Flash Media Server
March 29, 2010
Last week I wrote about closed captions on video players and the week before that I wrote about live streaming commencement. Well, we (UNC) got the proposal back from a company offering a solution; it was around $32k. As a result of such a high price tag there is a good chance that we will [...]
