Being the adventures of a young man whose principal interests are…

Here’s a little something I whipped up based on a photo I took at the Obama rally on Oct. 18th, 2008

Julian Personal Projects barack, obama, rally, wallpaper

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.

mosaic

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.

Julian Personal Projects AS3, bitmap, Flash, mosaic

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.

Julian Personal Projects ui, web design

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.

Julian Personal Projects Flash, freelance, ui

I’ve spent a day or two reformatting and tightening up the code I left lingering on the Fless project I started.

Here is the example

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.

Julian Personal Projects AS3, fless, WordPress

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

Julian Personal Projects AS3, Flash, fless, PHP, WordPress, XML

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.

Julian Personal Projects community, Flash, front-end, WordPress