Seems the server I’m hosted on bit the dust yesterday. Well, to be more precise, a hard drive bit the dust. After about 12 hours of downtime, things appear to be back to normal with no data loss aside from emails. Back to knocking some AIR out!
Peas
DK
Andy Powell has posted a couple entries on restaurants in Atlanta.
Restaurant guide 1 and here . I’m going to add a few yummy eats. FYI, Atlanta has a TON, as in a TONNE, as in a whole freakin bunch of restaurants.
CNN Center - right inside is a food court containing a few mall type eateries as well as a Jocks and Jills, a great Atlanta sports bar fav.
A short hike away, well short ride away, is the Mid Town area home to many a eatery. Here is a short list of them Midtown Eats. I’ll high lite a few from personal experience:
Also not far is the Poncey-Highlands-Little Five points area. This link here is a start, but there are many more. The Highlands has some nice eats, not all on the cheap. Some live music too. A couple spots I’ll suggest are:
Well that lists out quite a bit. Many of these are a brisk walk away from the CNN center area, meaning a mile or so. Near the CNN center is the downtown area where Azio is. Also there is a Hooters, yeehaw! A couple other nice places to eat around there too. Atop the Westin cylinder hotel is a revolving cafe, nice scenic place for some adult beverages. If you really want to go over the top, check out Nikolai’s Roof really nice place to eat with a view. Reservations are required and just don’t ask about price, its high. 
HTH!
peas
DK
Check out that Flex uber pirate Doug McCune’s site for some 360|Flex Atlanta bling action.
http://dougmccune.com/blog/2008/01/26/got-my-bling-for-360flex/
Why haven’t you registered for 360|Flex yet, eh?
360|Flex Atlanta, February 25-27, is the place to learn about Flex and AIR from
Adobe and community speakers. Included in the price of registration is a free
pre-conf, all day training session on Flex 101. We’re the premiere Flex and AIR
conference. $480 for one or $1500 for a 4-person team. Visit http://360flex.com
The 360|Flex schedule was posted a short while back. You can check it out here: 360|Flex Schedule
Are you booked, scheduled, and en-route yet? Why not? Check it out below. Did you see that price? Yeah, like something off of one of those daily Dell coupon sites, eh? Even at twice that price its well worth it. Some come on, start nagging that boss!
360|Flex Atlanta - February 25-27, 2008
This 3-day conference is the place to learn about Flex and AIR from
Adobe and community speakers. Sunday before the conference we’ll be
offering an all day Flex 101 session, included in the price of
registration. That’s right, a pre-conference all day training session
on Flex. 360|Flex is the premiere Flex and AIR conference. We were the
first Flex conference and we’re still growing and getting better.
Don’t miss out, only $480 for an individual or $1500 for a 4-person
team. More details can be found at http://360flex.com
gosh, I really need to blog more often, eh? Well its a new year, so maybe…nope, this ain’t gonna be one of those ‘hop on the I am posting my new years resolutions bandwagon’ posts!
Ok, so, I’m a dude in IT. Naturally I dig electronics. That said, I have a really slow acceleration on uptake So, I don’t have a iPod, iPhone, well nor a Mac for that matter. I did finally break down and buy a wireless mouse. After snooping around the net for months I finally went to a store to get physical as it were. The top three mice to look at on my list were all Logitech brands: MX Revolution, VX Revolution, and the Nano. When up front and in person, the Nano is too small for daily use. Sure would be great for a traveling lappy user though. The store was out of MX revolutions, so I snagged the VX. After two days I was convinced it was too small. So I hit a Fry’s and snagged the MX Revolution. Holy Mouse Traps Batman! This thing is expensive! Well, considering its the first mouse I purchased in ~8 years, I was a daily user of a 3-button Logitech forever, $99 doesn’t sounds so bad.
The mouse is totally schweeeet! Glides nice and has a good weight to it. Kind of heavy actually, but to me that’s good. It has ample buttons including a thumb button that looks like a wheel, it has three positions. Oh, and speaking of the wheel, interesting. It has a auto sensing switch that based on the speed at which you are spinning the wheel switches between freewheelin or coastin. Odd way to explain it, eh? Basically it goes from a wheel that has positions as you roll it to none. Why is this cool? In freewheelin mode you can traverse say 50 pages of a Word doc in seconds. You can set the threshold of the switch in the SetPoint tools.
The cons? Price! When you press one of the two switches on the left side used by your thumbs the mouse can literally lift up a bit. The other thing, seems the SetPoint software is conflicting with Dreamweaver, which I use minimally anyhoo.
ok….next up is a keyboard. Any suggestions? No split keyboards for me, I can’t touch type. A couple of reasons why I can’t, but that’s another post.
peas
So, I’ve been wanting to play around with this PaperVison3D schtuff. Why? Well, I certainly do not use 3D in my job, I just wanted to! Unfortunately time demands, new baby and all, keep me from really digging into it. Add to this, almost all the stuff so far that I have seen is Flash based…as in not Flex. There are a couple Flex based examples. One is in the PaperVision3D source called FlexFocus. Another recent great example is from that master robe wearer Doug McCune himself. He calls it CoverFlow. In either of these Flex based cases, terms like Sprite and Clipping are used, Flash terms again that I’m not all familiar with. Though I can brag about playing with Sprites on the C64 and IBM PC way back when, but those were wholly different animals. Thus I sat down and employed the all to famous design patter: Hack It Up. The result? A cross of Canvas3D and Lee Brimelow’s Carousel FLA.
Now, what the heck does the code do? I’ve commented some where I know, there is much in there I just don’t follow…yet. The short and skinny: the images are placed in planes, the planes are positioned and rotated in such a way to appear to be in a 3D carousel, this carousel is fixed, the buttons tell the camera to render the scene from a different vantage point along a circle. The math behind it is elementary, though I’m sure there is a bit more to that PaperVision3D Plane, BitMapMaterial, etc…
What does my version add to the mix? One, its Flex based…use the tag Luke! Two, I have incorporated the use of a public dataProvider to inject the URLs of the images. Yes Dorothy, you can change this dataProvider at runtime. See the example below, the test button at the bottom swaps the dataProvider.
Carousel Roundabout Exmaple
Source code is fully available via the context menu of FP.
DK
Born Nov 4 2007 at 8lbs 6oz, this is Sophia Louise. Hello everyone! Mom and baby are doing great. Niklas is now a big brother, something he is adjusting to.
Cheers!
DK
ok, hoping to step out and coin a new term: BRIA
BRIA is Business Rich Internet Applications. Idea is a RIA and BRIA are a little different to me. Consider Finetune, Pandora, or Scrapblog in contrast to say BusinessObjects, Fidelity Mortgage Search, or Viziant. BRIA are a subset of RIA focused on pure business applications such as the Enterprise sector.
Go ahead, use it, steal it, let me sue you for it. hehe…jk
DK
Heading out this afternoon for Cheecago. Hope to see some of you folks there! With so many attendees, we may be fighting each other over the free food and beer, hehe. Be sure to drop by the Universal Mind booth too and we can chat about building awesome Flex apps.
Peas
DK
Awesome!! Universalmind has made the list of fastest growing private companies this year coming in at 290. Though my tenure has been short so far with Universalmind, it has been awesome working with the best and brightest in the industry. I am excited to be part of such a tremendous team and anticipate the times ahead as we grow. You can read about the exciting news here at Inc 500 Fastest Growing Companies in America.
Don’t know who Universalmind is? We are a team of developers whose collective mind tackles your problems and solves them. As a team, we have developed, and continue to enrich, a core knowledge base of best practices for building, troubleshooting, and optimizing complex, high-performance web applications. Check us out here: http://www.universalmind.com. Come talk to us at Adobe MAX Chicago at the Universalmind booth too!
DK
Update: Thanks to Mike at Inc.com for correcting a obvious blunder.
