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Ideas, tips and articles about Adobe's products and web-related technologies
- AS3 Tutorial: Creating a Slideshow
Some of my old friends keep asking me for tips and tutorials for flash and actionscript, so I decided to spend a few hours writing a small tutorial for a small slideshow class. The tutorial turned out to be rather long, because I wanted to go in detail and explain the "why&", not just the "how". ...
- Google, Deep Web and GET vs. POST
Google says they've started experimenting with more advanced crawling methods to help them index pages inaccessible via links. Their crawler is actually filling and submitting forms from the site and check the results. How does this affect web developers? ...
- VPN made easy: Meet Hamachi
Setting up a VPN can be nightmare. A few days ago, my boss said to me "hey, I just read about a zero-configuration VPN, you don't need to set up anything". At first I laughed at the idea, but then I decided to have a closer look and prepared a test environment. ...
- Airbrush Effect in Flash
Just before Christmas, I've asked our main graphic artist to make a simple Holiday greetings card. After two days of work (he kept complaining that he'd need a real model to pose for him), he presented me with the result. ...
- RAW Heavyweights: Lightroom, DxO and Capture One
With the new releases from Adobe, DXO Labs and Phase One, I've decided to put to the test some of the top RAW processors. These are: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 1.3; DXO Pro Optics Suite 5; Capture One 4. ...
- Searching in all tables and columns of a database
I was forced recently to do some maintenance and bug fixing on an aging .NET-based CMS. The cool thing (even though it's daunting at first) about SQL server is that you can obtain any information about the databases using SQL queries. After having a look at System Databases - master and its Views, it became a little clearer how to do it. ...
- Lightroom vs DXO
Little by little, Adobe Lightroom is becoming the reference program in the RAW processing market, overshadowing veterans such as Capture One. However, unlike Photoshop, Lightroom does not have the near-monopoly, ‘industry standard’ status and the lower entry barriers allow for a healthy competition. Even with Raw Shooter’s demise, Bibble, Silkypix or even ACDSee Pro ...
- NET Framework version penetration?
One of the things I've always loved about Flash was the transparency regarding the player version penetration, adoption rates, geographical data and so on. Is there something similar available for .NET framework? ...
- Photography basics - Exposure
Many friends who are beginning to learn photography are asking me “I want to go beyond the basics. What should I know?” I decided to write a series of tutorials on the basics of photography to aid those who want to go beyond point-and-shoot, those who want to be in control of their cameras.If you don’t know what the exposure or aperture are, this little tutorial is ...
- Search and Replace tool for MSSQL
Every now and then I come across some bad practices that needs repairing. This time the "no-no" was in a database tables. I had to change hard-coded links in quite a few tables. Replacing 10,000 absolute URLs spread across the database can be a huge headache, so I decided to work smart, not hard. ...
- Microsoft Photosynth
When it comes to Microsoft, people become very vocal. However, unlike Silverlight, Photosynth is the kind of innovative technology that has the potential to change the web. ...
- Access 2007 and NULLs
I wasted several hours not realizing that MS Access 2007 doesn't display NULLs in a table. ...
- Importing large databases in MySQL
This little PHP script allows for arbitrary-sized sql files to be imported in the MySql database with no headaches. It's pretty simple to configure, files can be uploaded via ftp and it'll show them in a list for easy restore. It supports both text (*.sql) and compressed (*.gz) files. ...
- Adobe Store for Eastern Europe Opens
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- New Adobe Online Store for Central Europe
I just got word that on May 17, Adobe will open a new online store for 10 Central and Est-European countries, from Croatia to Ukraine. ...
- Should I sue or not?
Imagine my surprise when today I saw the photo of the girl in a printed magazine. It was published without my consent, I didn't even get an email! ...
- Adobe Flex-ing their muscles at Microsoft
By now, it’s everywhere in the news: Flex SDK, along with the related technologies, is going open source! This includes everything needed to build Flex applications, including the core libraries and components from the SDK (which were already free), the source code for the ActionScript and MXML compilers, and the ActionScript debugger. Moreover, Adobe will provide full support for the ...
- ZX Spectrum Anniversary
I’ve just realized that Sinclair ZX Spectrum is 25 years old.It’s difficult for me to convey the impact Spectrum, (like Commodore 64 or Amiga) have had on entire generations of computer enthusiasts. It is such a simple machine (8bit Zilog Z80 processor running at 3.5 MHz with 48b of RAM and a display of 256x192 px in 16 colors) yet at the time the possibilities seemed endless. ...
- Converting rootless XmlReader to XmlDocument in .NET
MS SQL has the ability to retrieve data as XML by using the "FOR XML [RAW | AUTO [ELEMENTS] | EXPLICIT]" parameters, which is very useful especially when used in a web service that communicates with a Flash / Flex client as the results don't have to be converted, but just output to the client. ...
- Using javascript expressions in CSS
It looks like you can actually use javascript expressions in CSS, like this: ...
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