The Danosphere.

Snipt.org is a nifty little tool for developers / everyone. It’s like twitpic but for code and long text. Punch in some code or a long paragraph, select the language type (“text” for long text), and then snip it! Snipt will give you a short URL to share your content with people via twitter.

Here’s my little snipt for you: http://snipt.org/63

I have been doing some pretty cool “node” based UI stuff at work using FLEX. I wanted to try and push the idea further, but the code I wrote at work is proprietary. Thus, I’ve decided to start from scratch! Since I’m starting from scratch I decided to do it up in Flash, here is the base for it, I’ll post updates as it advances.

Use: Click to create a node. Click and drag nodes to move them around.

I’ve been smothered in the horror that is week 10 and finals week here at RIT. I’m just about through it with lots more to post about, but in the meantime I’ll keep this one short. This is my Intro to Digital Animation final project, as usual it was a bit rushed because I’m taking 20 credit hours and I’ve got final projects in all my classes but here it is.

The assignment was a humorous father’s day short about an experience we’ve had with our dad. This is actually based on a true story so I thought it would work well. I was going for a “South Park” feel, and came up a bit short on sound but that’s always a bitch.

Here is a quick poster layout / background I did for my buddy’s senior project poster (printed at 40″x32″). He just wanted a background he could add his text and images into. I whipped it up pretty quick, can you say Microelectronic Engineering meets Web 2.0?

A while ago I made a post about FileReference in AS2. For a recent project I needed to create a simple uploader class which uploads files to a given server from flash, so once again I was face to face with FileReference, but this time in AS3. The syntax is almost identical, with a few small nuances. Ill let you download the source** to get the full details.

This example has some a few small frills, my favorite of which is the constructor takes a directory name where you would like the file to be uploaded (relative to the upload script), this allows me to reuse this class for many different uploads, to different directories.

** Note: For this to work you need to put “upload.php” on your server and point the variable ‘phpUploadScript’ in FileUploader.as on line 20 to upload.php.

Lately I’ve been buried in work relating to my ever-closer graduation but somehow I managed to squeeze out this poster for the booth I was running at RIT’s first Innovation and Creativity Festival. While the audience wasn’t exactly the TCBN target demographic it was still good to just get out and spread the word about the College Blog Network. I literally whipped this up in about 3hrs late late the night before the festival. Not my best work but it printed very nicely and I think it conveys the idea behind TCBN well.

Although I haven’t been able to do much work on TCBN the past month because of school, after graduation there are some huge new features I plan on adding. Just counting the days til I’m out of school and can actually have some real time to dedicate to this project.