As I’m retiring I’m doing a little cleanup of some old projects and putting them on a backup drive. I’m starting to realize that there’s a lot of stuff I’ve been meaning to open source but never got around to or got distracted. So I’ve decided to post it all here so everyone can enjoy […]
The short: I got myself a summer job at the Montreal Neurological Institute, which I am hoping is the start of a brilliant career in neuroscience. Then I’m finishing my undergrad and hopefully doing a PhD in the field, and with the amount of work I have coming up, I don’t think I’m going to […]
Some more comments on the SWX controversy, after Aral’s rebuttal of my previous post. First off, just to be absolutely clear, I am not bashing Aral, or anybody working on SWX itself. Aral and I have have collaborated on amfphp, and are coauthors (among several other very talented people) on a new open-source Flash book, […]
My fellow flasher Aral Balkan sent me an email today about his new project, SWX. Basically SWX is a way of sending and receiving data from and to PHP that is very similar in principle to, say, amfphp. Instead of using the native NetConnection object, however, SWX relies on loadMovie, and its ability to send […]
I’m currently writing a chapter on amfphp in an upcoming book on Open Source Flash to be published at Friends of Ed. Much of the chapter is going to be geared towards mini-projects as I feel amfphp really isn’t that complicated and people learn much better with an actual live example than with abstract discussions […]