2008 July | MadeByPi® Blog

Jul 31, 2008

Things you may have missed…

Posted by Mikea | Filed under Cool stuff, Technology

Things move fast in the world of flash - so just in case you've been less than attentive, here's a few cool things from the recent to the nearly now...

SourceBinder - "...a node-based visual framework for easy prototyping and real-time tuning of Flash based visual applications." -

Liquid Components - a free, open source component set for Flash CS3.

Hobnox AudioTool - an impressive browser based audio synthesis/processing tools with a fair few retro synths and effects recreated for your delight.

Hobnox - AudioTool

Jul 29, 2008

The good ol’ days…

Posted by Joer | Filed under Cool stuff

...when men were men and servers filled rooms!

check out this IBM presentation from 1975

Some of the retro diagrams are great!

Jul 28, 2008

Coke Zero Rooftop Racer

Posted by Joer | Filed under Cool stuff

Pretty sweet little game, it takes ages to load but the video backgrounds are very well done. Give it a go...

Jul 25, 2008

Opera, XSLT and tags

Posted by Mikef | Filed under Technology

I think I've discovered a pretty big bug in Opera browser when testing client-side XSLT capabilities of different browsers.

Steps to reproduce:

Launch Opera
Disable Javascript
Visit a XSLT page that uses javascript in part of an xslt template (not one that users javascript to actually do the transformation)
The moment the parser encounters a <script> tag within a template, it'll fail.

This is really frustrating because I've found that most of the other browsers are doing a good job with XSLT these days.

Jul 24, 2008

JSON character encoding

Posted by Paull | Filed under Technology

It appears the encoding of a JSON file must match the encoding used in the HTML page which is downloading it. If a page uses UTF-8 encoding but the JSON file uses iso-8859-1 (or visa versa) then any unicode characters in the JSON may not be decoded and displayed properly.
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Jul 24, 2008

Physics puzzle game

Posted by Mikea | Filed under Cool stuff, Technology

Here's a rather addictive little Flash game with a nice use of the box2D physics library for as3.

Jul 15, 2008

Google App Engine

Posted by Mikef | Filed under Technology

Google have recently launched Google App Engine.

"Google App Engine enables you to build web applications on the same scalable systems that power Google applications."

I haven't as yet seen anything in their preview gallery that interests me, but I'm keen to see what people can create using this system and where it ends up going.

Jul 11, 2008

An Alternativa to Papervision?

Posted by Miked | Filed under Cool stuff, Technology

Another Flash 3D engine with some impressive demo's and some equally impressive frame rates. Certainly the most complex 3D environments I have seen in Flash so far.