And here it's! the plasma effect!
Unfortunatelly I'm not able to optimize it, so I'm still rendering at 50x50.



VIEW EFFECT (fast with IE)
DOWNLOAD SOURCE

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For some reason, I was trying to code a plasma effect yesterday with Actionscript. I never tried to code an effect like that, and never know that it was a very basic code which really need optimizations in order to make it work fast. However, I liked better the interfere function, so I used that one by now..

I didn't do any optimizations to the code yet (so it's just a 50 x 50), but managed to do my own colour palette, and also added a Convolution Matrix to give it a little bit of bump effect.


See it in action! :D

Surprise! this time the source file is available ;)

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Ok, 2:56am, time to go to sleep. But before that I'll spam you with my latest experimental work. I called it doobscii. These days I had to do an illustration done just with types for Spring. At some point, I had the idea that instead of just doing the illustration with Illustrator (er), it was going to be much more interesting doing it with Actionscript and Flash8. I still don't know how i'm going to export the render to a vector file (maybe exporting to .ps as it's an easy format (and fun!!)), however sole mentioned something about exporting the flash to .pdf, but i don't know if it will export as a vector.

Anyway, the firsts tests I did ended up quite well imho, so I did an small gallery with all them, hope you like it!





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Looks like if you have a code like this in flash:
getURL("?section="+section);

I'll work in every browser as expected, like going to index.php?section=about, for example..

However, looks like in Safari, it appends the string in the URL, so it will look something like that:
index.php?section=about?section=products

Nice, isn't it?

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After spending half of the day trying to understand all the code of FCKeditor, modifying it a lot, doing thousands of tests (in order to change the color of the links in the editor) I decided to stop using it and trying with TinyMCE. The funny thing was that reading the editor_content.css file I found out this part:

/* Important is needed in Gecko browsers inorder to style links */
a { color: green !important; }

So if you have the same problem, just add a new style for the <a> tag in the file fck_editorarea.css with the !important thing in the end.

More about the !important rule here

ARFF!!

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Do you know what's this thing in the image? I'm sure you probably didn't seen one of those in some months.. Yes, we now use CDs, or even DVDs to save our data. So, I wonder, why the Save file icon is still being a Floppy disk in 99% of the programs out there?! Who had the brilliant idea of using a floopy disk as an icon? And why everyone is still following it nowadays?


Would be fun if in 5years we're still using that icon as for Save file option..

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Never create/use a variable/object with "3d" in the begining of the name ("3dXX"). It won't work.

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Looks like the site is going quite well, isn't it? I'm quite pleased with how is it going, and all the feedback the people is sending encourages me to keep it improving it daily. There are great features in the oven that I expect to release soon. Also, at some point we should spend one weekend cleaning the site's code and making it tableless.

It's basicly being a great experience where I'm learning quite a lot! :')

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Once a while mss.sole surprise me with a very interesting software. First time (that I remember) was with AVG Free Edition that just ends with the virus/antivirus headache, as it just updates daily with the latest virus information. It's just useful and free.

This time was actually a folder she had in her old ACER laptop that I when inside thanks to my curiousity. It was called last.fm and it had a kind of music player inside. It didn't took me too long to realize that with that player I was able to listen music similar to what I wanted to hear. For example, as usual I tried searching for brothomstates but which was my surprise when the program found the artist and provided me with an station with similar artists. I just started to listen a lot of new music in the same style of my choice but all new artists to me. Tried again with mr.oizo, infected mushroom and orbital, and had good results with all of them..  a shame the player didn't found Ronny Pries and Midi Miliz ;)

Nice tool anyway, give it a try (you need to register to be able to download it).

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Seriously! Internet Explorer sucks, my life will be easier if this browser wasn't the default one in windows. In the case you're wondering.. why? Well, just a very easy example.. If you define a box in a website with 200px of width, and 20px of margin, Firefox, Safari, Opera, ... will show the box with the same size, Internet Explorer, won't! So, to fix that you have to do SHITY fixes that make your website code to be dirty and can take extra problems in other browsers. Luckily, that'something that is slowly changing, a 60% of the users that visit this site does use firefox now, one year ago was just a 5%. So, please, Kill Bill's browser now, or better destroy it!.. if you don't like violence, just switch to firefox. Inspired by sole's.

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