In a recent tutorial Animating a Still , we used tracking data from a real hand-held camera to give our still image a natural look, as opposed to using a mathematical expression like the wiggle. This gave our footage a natural organic look that would be difficult to achieve with expressions. Then I thought I would try a similar experiment utilizing a real optical rack focus.
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Nice Rack Focus Experiment
A brief look on How Java-based web chat clients are made There are many websites using chat clients, either for the use of customer support, or just to provide entertainment. These chat clients are based on Java , the most preferred programming language, especially because it is very easy to be deployed on the web
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A brief look on How Java-based web chat clients are made
“Around that time, I attended an offsite of a larger private equity firm and there was a organizational psychologist who gave a talk on work life balance. He said something I’ll never forget
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"Around that time, I attended an offsite of a larger private equity firm and there was a…"
Hot off the back of their recent Webby award , two members of the team from 99designs were instrumental in winning gold for Australia, as the Codaroos took out this year’s annual FullCodePress international website-in-a-day competition. In the Wellington Town Hall at 4pm this afternoon, the FullCodePress judging panel announced that the website the Codaroos had built for their client, Lions Hearing Dogs , had been unanimously voted to be the winner, beating out Team USA’s Timaru Mental Health Support Trust website and the Te Hua Rangatahi website built by New Zealand’s CodeBlacks
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99designs Champions Win Gold for Australia
Whitney posted this as a comment to an earlier post I had the other day about comments funny enough. I thought it deserved it’s own attention. It’s a wonderful description of the power and potential of our portfolio company ExFM . In one sense, ExFM turns us into smart spiders.
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Extension.fm turns us into smart spiders
Episode 66 of The SitePoint Podcast is now available! This week, Patrick O’Keefe ( @iFroggy ), Stephan Segraves ( @ssegraves ), and Brad Williams ( @williamsba ) reminisce about WordCamp Raleigh and share live interviews they recorded with the conference organizers. Listen in your Browser Play this episode directly in your browser! Just click the orange “play” button below: Download this Episode You can also download this episode as a standalone MP3 file.
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SitePoint Podcast #66: WordCamp Raleigh with Michael Torbert and Steve Mortiboy
About a week ago Amsterdam was shaking since Ibuildings organized another edition of the Dutch PHP Conference at the RAI, hosted by Lorna Jane ( @lornajane ). This year was also the first time uncon sessions were available for the audience to give 15 minutes (lightning) talks or full 45 minutes presentations. Both Stefan Koopmanschap ( @skoop ) and I ( @DragonBe ) were given the honor to host these sessions as part of our community involvement with the PHP user group PHPBenelux ( @phpbenelux )
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Dutch PHP (un)Conference 2010 – Michelangelo van Dam
Typography plays an important role in graphic and web design. Everybody likes clean and professional-looking work and the correctly chosen fonts can help you to make your design work more attractive. These 35 clean and professional fonts will help you to achieve simple and design results
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35 Professional Clean Fonts For Your Designs
Red5 – Revolutionizing Media Streaming With the increased use of Multimedia content on the Internet, there has been a requirement of dedicated multimedia streaming, a server that broadcasts live media over the web. Red5 is currently the best available software for this purpose. These are some features that give Red5 an edge as a media streamer – 1
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Red5 – Revolutionizing Media Streaming
How to ensure security for your website With the advancement in web technologies, technical flaws have also risen that pose threat to security of websites. Security measures have been invented to prevent these flaws and provide security to websites. Here are a couple of most important security measures.
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How to ensure security for your website
Using Google Analytics to optimize your website statistics Google analytics is a popularly used free service offered by Google, which is aimed at marketers, providing detailed statistical records regarding the visitors to a website. GA provides analytical data through techniques such as funnel visualization and custom visitor segmentation, which helps to identify poorly performing pages and advertisements
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Using Google Analytics to optimize your website statistics
We’re at the brink of shifts in the way we do things. The monks who have been toiling away on these new pieces of machinery are coming out of the monolith and starting to spread the word to the people. You might have seen my tutorial on creating an HTML5 iPhone app , highlighting the possibilities of open standards, client-side applications that leverage technologies we’ve traditionally used for websites and web apps
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The State of HTML5 Apps
Posted a slightly enhanced code drop for video wall (see link to .zip on http://robrelyea.com/demos/videowall ): Took advantage of the fact that ViewportWindow can take a UIElement, not just a MediaElement, as the “masterElement”. Built a context menu option to switch to VectorScreen mode. Reviewing with David Teitlebaum and others on the team, but still appears to not be software rendering, even for the large vector rendering (16,000×8,000)… App.xaml.cs – refactored the creation of MediaElement into MediaScreen.xaml and greatly simplified OnStartup() grokability
Scaffolding with Ruby on Rails Ruby on Rails (ROR) is famous with web developers for a million reasons – one of the biggest being the scaffolding feature, which lets you to create web applications based on the database within minutes! Here, we see how ROR and MySQL combine to create fast, clean and efficient web applications! 1. Create a ROR Application An empty application has to be created first using the following command: rails application_name 2.
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Scaffolding with Ruby on Rails
The rising trend of IDEs and APIs versus traditional programming In the recent few years, there has been a spectacular rise of APIs and IDEs. Most web developers prefer using web development toolkits that makes it extremely easy to create web applications without getting into the details. On the other hand, simple programming languages have their own advantages that API and integrated environments can never match.
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The rising trend of IDEs and APIs versus traditional programming
Ethics of Online Advertising in a Website Web developers often display advertisements to the visitors to earn money. It is a popular approach to use services like Google AdWords that display customised advertisements based on the customer data. But advertisers should follow certain ethics when giving out customer data to advertising services – 1.
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Ethics of Online Advertising in a Website
It’s been a while since I’ve posted a free project file so here is one I’ve been messing with lately… It uses the CC Hair plug-in to create random moving fibers and then I used the Mirror plug-in to add a classic… well, mirror effect. Download Project File CS4, just change the font to something you have.
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FREE PROJECT: Fiber Particles
Thomas Carlyle once observed: Music is well said to be the speech of angels. You can make your speechwriting sing by learning lessons from songwriters. By applying these eight songwriting techniques, you will get your audiences to virtually tap their feet, nod their heads, and even hum along to your message
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8 Speechwriting Lessons You Can Learn from Songwriters
Our tutorial video player now allows dynamic scrubbing. Basically you can skip to any part of the tutorial without having to download the entire video first. Benefits: Re-watch specific parts or tips quicker Skip over bad (but hilarious) jokes Watch tutorials in chunks and skip ahead on demand Skip over tutorial info and listen to only jokes Give it a try Another thing we are working on is the ability to catalog chapter points for easier reference and tracking of in-depth tutorials.
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New Feature for Video Player
As a designer, have you ever had to work on a project such as an annual report, brochure or even a blog post that contained a lot of data? Many designers are handed documents which contain tables of snore-inducing information with the expectation that they shine it up a bit—something akin to Extreme Makeover: Data Edition . The solution is to visualize this information in an attractive format by employing charts and graphs.
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Using Charts and Graphs for Content