Confessions of an Flash Addict

• cs50.tv
  Harvard College: Introduction to the intellectual enterprises of computer science and the art of programming. This course teaches students how to think algorithmically and solve problems efficiently. Topics include abstraction, encapsulation, data structures, databases, memory management, software development, virtualization, and websites. Languages include C, PHP, and JavaScript plus SQL, CSS, and XHTML. Problem sets inspired by real-world domains of biology, cryptography, finance, forensics, and gaming. Designed for concentrators and non-concentrators alike, with or without prior programming experience.

looking very promising!

Below I posted a video the gives you a glimpse of what the future of advertising and digital magazines looks like. WIRED magazine is doing some amazing stuff with AIR on screenreaders/tablets, and I have to say I was very  impressed with what I saw. The responsiveness of the application, the looks of the UI, the inventive use of 3D (it actually adds something useful to products ), video and social media. It all adds up to the experience. Everything is done in exactly the right amount, there is a good balance between UI and content.  I LOVE IT! If magazines are going to look like this, i’m all for! And it is also good to see that AIR is taking ground with major players like WIRED.

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Yesterday I attended Lee Brimelow’ ByteArray Workshop at the FITC. It kicked ass! SO i have put together a list with usefull links and references he talked about during the workshop

• Microsoft WAVE soundfile format – FITC ByteArray Workshop – WAVE Format File Specification
  (tags: file wav specification audio documentation)
• ByteTrainer -FITC ByteArray Workshop – ByteTrainer, a tool to help you understand bits and bytes and calculating with them
• BMP file format -FITC ByteArray Workshop – Bitmap File format specification
  (tags: bmp bitmap header format file)
• http://theflashblog.com/bytearrays/ -FITC ByteArray Workshop: ByteArray slides. All the information covered in the workshop.
  (tags: bytearray actionscript bitwise presentation)

• One SWF to rule them all : The Almighty PreloadSWF « jpauclair
  Hidden features in pre-loading SWF files, secret events and more secret sauce
  (tags: debugging debug as3)
• Piracy in the Appstore
  Really good presentation about the iPhone Statictics and piracy in the AppStore. MUST-READ!
  (tags: iphone statistics)
• Paid Applications on the App Store
  Really good presentation about the iPhone Paid Applications. MUST-READ!
  (tags: apps applications iphone)
• iPhone AppStore Secrets – Pinch Media
  Really good presentation about the iPhone AppStore. The stuff they dont tell you. MUST-READ!
  (tags: iphone mobile analytics presentation statistics marketing)
• Base64 Optimized as3 lib « jpauclair
  A Base64 Encoder that is 700% faster than the one provided by Adobe.
  (tags: base64 code optimization)
• Create Digital Motion » More ffmpeg Recipes for Free Video Conversion on Any Platform
  All the 'recipes' you need yo convert video. Period.
  (tags: ffmpeg tutorial reference)

• AS3 Zip Library Release « nochump.com
  AS3 ZIP Library for reading and writing zip files. Interface based on Java API (java.util.zip package)
  (tags: zip as3 library)