August 16, 2008If you are a fan of swimming last night was an amazing finish in the 100m Butterfly. To the naked eye it looked like Michael Phelps had been out touched by Milorad Cavic. Thanks to some amazing technology, he won by 10-thousandth of a second. Could the incredibly sensitive touch been wrong? On TV their [...]
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May 12, 2008In this sample I demonstrate how to take a series of UserControls (Simple ellipses) and rotate each in a counter-clockwise circular motion. The first step in the process is to define a user control and expose both the TranslateTransform and RotateTransform from the TransformGroup object. This allows us to rotate and move each user control [...]
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March 31, 2008I wish I could remember where I stumbled upon this, but you have to check out this creepy Flash demo. Move your mouse around and watch the model. The movement is not super fluid, but impressive nonetheless. A company by the name of MotionPortrait created the demo.
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March 25, 2008Check out this article on Cnn that describes the recent privacy breach that caught Facebook with there pants down. A security lapse allowed strangers to access photos of Facebook member and their friends, even if the privacy settings were set to restrict who could see the photos. With over 67 million active users, Facebook will [...]
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May 4, 2007“There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies.” —C.A.R. Hoare
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March 29, 2007Check out this new product from Adobe Labs. It’s a cross-operating system runtime being developed that allows developers to leverage Flash, Flex, HTML, JavaScript, and Ajax to build and deploy rich Internet applications (RIAs) to the desktop. http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/apollo/
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March 20, 2007My name is Joel, and I am a Microsoft.NET system architect and Director of Development for a leading interactive development firm located in Tempe, Arizona. Our firm designs and develops a wide range of custom web applications which leverage Flash, Ajax, ASP.NET and the Microsoft.Net Framework.
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