I’ve moved my ColorToy to it’s own domain. It now lives at http://www.colortoy.net. So please update you links and bookmarks. You can also now follow ColorToy on Twitter (http://www.twitter.com/ColorToy).
Archive for the ‘Developer’ Category
The ColorToy has moved.
Monday, March 23rd, 2009What’s with these “Tumblr” posts?
Thursday, December 11th, 2008For nearly the past year I haven’t really had much to say on the blog. I have however found lots of cool things I’d like to share, videos, pictures etc. I’ve been posting those to my tumblr page. One of the great advantages of Tumblr is that they make it really easy to share the cool things you find online. The bookmarklet they supply makes it super easy to link up any video, picture, link or practically any information you want to share. Tumblr’s biggest downside however is that you there is by default no easy way for people to comment on the stuff you find. That’s why I’ve started to develop a script that can take your Tumblr posts and post them to Wordpress. At the moment it’s very basic and can only handle video and picture posts but I plan on expanding it in the near future. It currently only runs on my local machine where when I execute it it reads the latest post from my tumblelog via the API, processes the fields, then resubmits it via XMLRPC to wordpress.
The grand plan would be to turn this into some kind of Wordpress plugin for Tumblr but I’m not sure I’ll get that far. If anyone wants to see what I have so far or help improve it just give me a shout. You can email me at dontspamdave at defmech.com (You’ll need to use your initiative on that one).
AS3 Buttons
Thursday, December 6th, 2007It’s learning Actionscript 3 time for me so I thought I’d share a few things I’ve discovered lately.
First: Buttons.
Kuler
Thursday, November 23rd, 2006A couple of days ago Adobe made available Kuler.
kuler is the first creative, hosted web application from Adobe Labs designed both to stand alone and to complement Adobe® Creative Suite® 2 components.
Annoyingly Kuler is what I hoped my ColorToy might have grown into if I’d actually got around to working on it. It’s very impressive and you should go check it out. One thing though where ColorToy still has an edge is in having random color functionality. Sometimes color inspiration can evade you but you can’t beat hammering random until something magical turns up.
So in summery, Kuler is awesome but ColorToy still has that random edge.
Keyword Manager for iPhoto
Thursday, November 23rd, 2006This evening I’ve been mostly playing with Keyword Manager. Keyword Manager an advanced keyword editor for iPhoto 6. It enables you to quickly tag up your pictures with the relevant data. I bought a license for it on Maczot for a mere £5 and it’s been well worth it.
So far this evening I’ve geographically key-worded most of my photos and tagged people who appear in them. The interface is pretty functional and you can fly though your tagging really quickly.
It’s been quite good fun looking at my old pics and tagging them up. I’ll get some more cool photos up on my Flickr account soon.
Firefox Crazy!
Monday, October 23rd, 2006According to my stats, Firefox usage on this site has gone from 34% to 92% in just over a week. That’s madness! It’s probably due to all those cool people using stumbleupon.
Firefox 2 is also due out tomorrow (24th October).
New Work: Gasbag Smackdown
Thursday, September 7th, 2006
Dog Digital have just finished work on Gasbag Smackdown for NPower. It’s a punching game in the same vein as Hoss’s - Spank The Monkey but this time the target has an attitude.
Voice of the punchbag is Dog Digital’s very own Rob Johnson, but don’t tell his mum as he says naughty things!
If you like Gasbag Smackdown why not DIGG it?
Comment Spam begone…
Thursday, April 27th, 2006I finally got around to implementing the Akismet comment spam plugin for Wordpress. And lo and behold it actually works! No comment spam over the last 24 hrs!
Useful Actionscript Code Snippet
Tuesday, February 21st, 2006Filed under: If only I had known about this years ago!
_global.tr = function() {
trace(arguments.join(" : "));
};
Example: tr(’bob’, 16, ‘fred’)
Output: bob : 16 : fred
Am-schter-dam
Sunday, November 13th, 2005This week I’ll be mostly in Amsterdam! I’m attending Spark - Europe’s Premier Flash 8 event. Looks to be pretty interesting. On the workshop front I’ll be attending “Flash 8’s New Features” with Grant Skinner and “Video Authoring with Flash 8″. On the conference side I’ll be checking out talks by Eric Natzke (Blended Art and Science), Mario Klingemann (Beyond the Blur: The Dawn of the Bitmap Age) and my ex-colleague Hoss Gifford (There is no God).
