Today was a bad PHP day, a very bad PHP day. Now all of the below is known by seasoned PHP coders already, you learn to live with it, however it does make for a good anectode, rarely does PHP’s crappier aspects converge in such a profound way to completely screw you up for hours on end.... Read More

Update: Paceville.com is now online to check out the interface go here.... Read More

Update: Paceville.com is now online, where the effect described in this tutorial can be seen.... Read More

Demo here. I’ve noted that the framerate is much better when the shockwave is included in a proper document, as opposed to the standalone swf I just linked to.... Read More

In the prior time series tutorial I stated that I was going to use Flare in favor of stuff like jFlot and jqPlot.... Read More

I’ve just managed to get Xray to work, a great debugger. Xray needs two things to work, the connector which is a .swc you include in your AS3 code and the shockwave which will be connecting to, and communicating with, the connector.... Read More

I just finished the Flare shockwave that will replace stuff I previously made with jFlot. As you might know, I had to replace the processingjs linkmap with the Flare original due to performance issues with processingjs specifically and canvas + JS in general.... Read More

I just finished implementing a cron job script that will email all people who’s the target of an activity in JomSocial’s activity stream.... Read More

Update: This visualization and other Flare stuff can be seen in a fully functioning state in the VizReader RSS reader.... Read More

I just went through the Joomla! 1.5x Customization book by Daniel Chapman, published by Packt Publishing. If you subscribe to this blog you will know that I’ve been working a lot with Joomla 1.5 recently and one of the basic questions I asked myself before I started reading it was would it have made me do anything different if I had read it before I began my massive re/deconstruction job?... Read More