A friend asked me for some Tower Grove art she could hang in her office. I was happy to oblige with a little filter-y, pixel-y magic. This is suitable for a desktop wallpaper or printing at 17″ x 11″.
Click the image for the full size.
Quick Discount Calculator – DisCalc
I’ve whipped up a quick little web app called DisCalc. Visit it here: http://juliankussman.com/discalc/
Enter an item’s cost, click the discount button (common percentages plus enter your own custom). Click ‘Add to list’ to add it to your running shopping total.
You can save this to your iPhone’s home screen to use it without Safari chrome. I’ve also implemented HTML5 localStorage to allow saving your running total between launches/restarts.
Have fun 
Barack Obama Rally in St. Louis – Wallpaper
Here’s a little something I whipped up based on a photo I took at the Obama rally on Oct. 18th, 2008
AS3 bitmap mosaic class
This class will allow you to create a pixellated copy of any display object.
It allows for varying pixel sizes and caching of rendered pixels so you don’t have to redraw them every time.
Usage is as follows:
var myMoz:Mosaic = new Mosaic(yourDisplayObj:DisplayObject, pixelSize:uint, useCache:Boolean);
addChild(myMoz);
or
var myMoz:Mosaic = new Mosaic(yourDisplayObj);
myMoz.pixelSize = 10;
myMoz.render();
Give it a try and let me know what you think.
Fox affiliate sites redesign
I’m disgusted by myfoxstl.com
It isn’t their fault though. Here is 30 minutes of thinking applied to a site that seems to have had 10 minutes of thinking behind it.
Now accepting freelance work
I’ve put my freelance lifestyle on hold for a while since I’ve had a full time job but I am now looking for freelance projects I can do in the off hours (6pm – 8am and weekends)
If you’re looking for a Flash developer, UI designer or general web genius™ please feel free to contact me at julian(at this domain).
I’m located in St. Louis, MO if that makes any difference but I’m available worldwide. that may actually be a benefit to a company located in the UK since the time difference would allow me to be at available during their daytime office hours.
Chugging along on Fless, the WordPress Flash front-end
I’ve spent a day or two reformatting and tightening up the code I left lingering on the Fless project I started.
It doesn’t look like much but it shows the ease of use of the framework.
Here is the code to create the basics:
public class Main extends MovieClip{
public function Main(){
var blog:Fless = new Fless();
blog.phpURL = “http://yourwebsite/getPost.php”;
blog.addEventListener(PostEvent.UPDATE, postsReady);
blog.getPosts(0, 20);
}
private function postsReady(e:PostEvent):void{
trace(“posts ready”);
trace(e.posts);
var curPost:CurrentPostView = new CurrentPostView(e.posts[0]);
curPost.x = 50;
curPost.y = 50;
curPost.width = (stage.stageWidth / 2) – 50;
curPost.height = stage.stageHeight – 100;
addChild(curPost);
}
}
I’m definitely looking for input from Flash devs that use WordPress to see what kind of features they would like.
fless v 0.00001 alpha
It ain’t much but this is what 0 – 1 hr of PHP knowledge and 4 months of AS3 knowledge will get you in an afternoon.
fless
Flash WordPress front-end
I’m about a week and a half into blogging and I realized that WordPress has a great back-end but the front end is only as good as the template. As a Flash developer I can make front-ends all day that make users want to drool but the back-end is always the tricky part. I’ve started the preliminary coding/research into making a front-end for WP in Flash. But what I don’t have is the needs of the community in the back of my mind. Again, I’ve only been blogging for a week or so. Therefore if any heavy WP users have specific challenges they need met I’d love to hear about them. Or, if you’re a Flash dev and you know what kind of a class kit you’d enjoy working with to build your own blog’s front-end, leave a comment.