http://www.quietless.com/kitchen The choreography of color and code Thu, 07 Jan 2010 04:52:30 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en While cycling around the city this past weekend with my girlfriend I shot a couple quick photos with my iPhone to play with some of the encoded EXIF/GPS data for an upcoming project I am working on. After creating some quick thumbnails, I built the following Google Maps prototype to ... http://www.quietless.com/kitchen/extract-exif-data-using-php-to-display-gps-tagged-images-in-google-maps/ This is a quick snippet to format the date string returned in the 'created_at' property of a typical Twitter XML/JSON request. The request returns a string such as : "Tue Apr 07 22:52:51 +0000 2009" which you'll probably want to localize and clean up before sticking it on your page. The ... http://www.quietless.com/kitchen/format-twitter-created_at-date-with-javascript/ This is an update to my earlier post where I demonstrated how to dynamically generate an image of a DisplayObject in Flash and push it up to the server using PHP. I've cleaned up and extended the code here to now allow you to also save an image to the ... http://www.quietless.com/kitchen/dynamically-create-an-image-in-flash-and-save-it-to-the-desktop-or-server/ Over the holiday weekend I had some time and got around to checking out Mark Chadwick's port of Sunflow to Processing called P5Sunflow. Really cool engine to relatively quickly render out some 3D screens using simple primitives that you can easily extend. I say relatively quickly because while the code ... http://www.quietless.com/kitchen/playing-with-p5sunflow/ Congratulations to Jason, Dina and Adam at OrdinaryKids for another job well done. The Communication Arts Webpick of the Day http://www.quietless.com/kitchen/stussy-nike-nsw-pick-up-commarts-webpick-of-the-day-1112-1118/ After months of peeking curiosity, this past week I finally downloaded and starting playing with OpenFrameworks and taking my first steps to learning C++. If you have a Flash / AS3 background like me you'll quickly find that the two languages are vastly different not just in their syntax but ... http://www.quietless.com/kitchen/getting-started-with-openframeworks/ In a few days, Nov. 1st, will mark the 1 year anniversary of my move from Portland, OR to San Francisco. It has been an exciting year getting set up in the city, moving from the shared flat in the Mission that I found on Craigslist to watching my girlfriend ... http://www.quietless.com/kitchen/moving-forward-setting-new-goals/ Here's a handy class that takes an array of hex values and creates a full screen radial or linear gradient that automatically scales to the width and height of the screen. Implementation is simple. // create an array of string hex values var colors:Array = ['0xFFFFFF', '0xF57E04', '0xC64D18', '0xA95354']; // constrains width to height, ... http://www.quietless.com/kitchen/easy-full-screen-gradients-in-flash-as3/ Updated: February 4. 2009 - Much cleaner implementation with added comments to hopefully help you understand what is going on In this being a utility I have been meaning to improve on for awhile, this post attempts to tackle two tasks that are especially common in Flash Platform development. 1st the ... http://www.quietless.com/kitchen/as3-image-batch-loader-with-php-directory-browsing/ I just got the call from Jason that the site I built for Tracy's new album, 'Our Bright Future' has won the FWA for December 28, 2008! Very special thanks to Jason, Adam, Sanaz and Hampus at Ordinary Kids and of course Tracy and Gretchen for making it happen. What ... http://www.quietless.com/kitchen/tracy-chapman-wins-fwa/ After four months of traveling throughout the US and France, and Italy I have finally landed, now in the beautiful city to the south of my beloved Portland, San Francisco. It was an awesome nine years living in Stumptown and I already miss the great friends I have made there ... http://www.quietless.com/kitchen/new-work-tracy-chapman/ On a recent project I created a Transform Tool similar to the one you might find in a typical CS3 application like Photoshop, Illustrator or Flash. Once you instantiate this tool and and assign it a target, you can easily scale, drag and rotate it around the Stage at runtime. ... http://www.quietless.com/kitchen/transform-tool-drag-scale-and-rotate-at-runtime/ Note : This class has been updated, you can view the new post here. Here is a very simple wrapper class I wrote last night that allows you to take a BitmapData snapshot of a Display Object on the Stage, convert it to a .png or .jpg and upload it to ... http://www.quietless.com/kitchen/upload-bitmapdata-snapshot-to-server-in-as3/ On March 10th I flew one-way from Portland, Oregon to Charlotte, North Carolina to pick up my '97 Honda Civic and drive it 3700 miles back across America. My girlfriend Jennie accompanied me for half of the trip back to Lincoln, Nebraska where she had to pit stop to hustle ... http://www.quietless.com/kitchen/top-five-things-you-need-to-know-before-driving-across-the-united-states/ Last friday I quit my job. and holy shit did it feel good!! And so now, once again, I saddle up on the bucking horse of self-employment wild eyed and excited about what the next year will bring. I’m starting this blog of sorts to document this process as now, ... http://www.quietless.com/kitchen/starting-over/