Archive for July, 2008

3D carousel with Flex 3 + PaperVision

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008

Video tutorial showing you how make a 3D carousel using Flex 3 and the 3D library PaperVision.

Creating custom system admin panels in XP/Server

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008

A nice little tutorial showing you how make a custom system administration panel in Windows XP. Using this method you can utilise existing adminstration functions and include web pages.

PS3 homebrew Pong

Tuesday, July 29th, 2008

Soon after the information about using Java for homebrew on the PS3 comes a fully working version of Pong!

Unbelievable pictures

Tuesday, July 29th, 2008

A collection of amazing pictures that look truely unbelievable. Li Wei’s artistry is described as “a mixture of performance art and photography that creates illusions of a sometimes dangerous reality.”

More available here.

Flex 4 language reference

Saturday, July 26th, 2008

Official documentation for Gumbo is available here. Adobe will be updating it approximately every week.

When your server room can’t be relocated…

Friday, July 25th, 2008

What happens when a companies executives decide to move their office downstairs and don’t take into account the server room with dedicated power, air conditioning, ventilation, etc.?

http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/The-Stalled-Server-Room.aspx

75 things to do before you die

Friday, July 25th, 2008

75 things to do before you die, self explantory really…

IBM shows us the future (in 1975)

Friday, July 25th, 2008

Slides from an IBM presentation in 1975 showing just how far ahead in thinking IBM really were.

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DIY 3D Controller

Thursday, July 24th, 2008

Instructions on how to make a simple 3D hand positioning sensor system.

Non Linux homebrew on the PS3

Thursday, July 24th, 2008

Coder “Freeplay” has released some code and instructions on building Java apps that can run on the PS3 without using the the OtherOS feature, utilising the BD-J feature available of Blu Ray disks. In theory this means that you’ll be able to run Java stuff from DVD/CD/Flash memory. It would appear that the PS3 won’t allow any filesystem access (no surprises there), but from browsing the instructions it all looks fairly straightforward.