5 1/2 blog

5 1/2 Forever

Aral — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 13:00:47 +0000

Patrick scared a lot of people (including me) in his last post when he stated that 5etdemi.com was going away. :) If you’re were worried, then don’t be. 5 1/2 is not going anywhere. I’ll be keeping it, and the invaluable posts Patrick has made over the years, online for the foreseeable future. - Aral

Closing shop

Patrick Mineault — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 01:25:09 +0000

Well I’ve fully made the transition to grad student and will be closing the site once the domain expires, which is in May. My new email is patrick DOT mineault AT gmail DOT com, and I’m on Facebook if you ever need me.

P.S. I can furnish FTP details and a MySQL dump if someone [...]

A new lead for amfphp

Patrick Mineault — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 16:15:59 +0000

A long time acquaintance, Wade Arnold, has stepped up to replace me as lead of amfphp. I have full confidence in Wade, who is very knowledgeable of the engine and has a large team of in-house developers to back him up. He has already worked on enhancements to the 1.9 version, which are going to [...]

New address for amfphp: amf-php.org

Patrick Mineault — Wed, 16 May 2007 14:47:12 +0000

Thanks to Thibault Imbert, the amfphp site is now available at amf-php.org. Please googlebomb the new site by making a link (for example, in you blog roll) to the new site with the link title “amfphp” or “amfphp - Flash remoting for PHP” so it will take the top spot on Google in the next [...]

amfphp.org domain name debacle

Patrick Mineault — Mon, 14 May 2007 14:04:24 +0000

Unfortunately I’ve had some serious issues trying to get amfphp.org back up and running. It appears that the domain was registered through RegisterFly.com, which is undergoing some serious legal issues, with threats of being closed down by ICANN, due to a corporate mismanagement scandal. You can read the gist of it here. Unfortunately it appears [...]

Amfphp: Fix for PHP 5.2.2 compatibility issue

Patrick Mineault — Mon, 14 May 2007 02:13:49 +0000

The current versions of amfphp do not support PHP 5.2.2 because of a minor but annoying change in that build: $HTTPRAWPOST_DATA is not populated. I have fixed it in the 1.2 branch, available on SourceForge, and in the 1.9 branch, available here.

You can also patch it yourself by doing the following. Find either core/amf/app/Gateway.php (1.9) [...]

amfphp.org domain expired - who owns it?

Patrick Mineault — Wed, 09 May 2007 22:44:12 +0000

Big trouble on the amfphp front... the domain amfphp.org seems to have expired and has now been replaced by ads. I am not sure who owned the domain in the first place... I'm thinking Justin Watkins but I am not sure how to reach him. It could also be any of the early contributors. So [...]

[OT] Stereo OpenGL Teapot demo for PsychToolbox

Patrick Mineault — Tue, 08 May 2007 00:27:48 +0000

The StereoDemo in PsychToolbox is pretty impressive. I figured it would be more practical for my own experimental setup though to render the stimulus in 3d through OpenGL using two cameras, and pipe the results to the special stereo buffers of PsychToolbox (rather, than, say, do the 3d manipulations on matlab matrices). I couldn't get [...]

[OT] Hamiltonian formulation of General Relativity - ADM formalism

Patrick Mineault — Thu, 03 May 2007 02:25:05 +0000

I had a course in General Relativity this semester and wrote a paper on a Hamiltonian formulation of General Relativity, the ADM formalism. It is written at a level appropriate for a final year undergraduate student of physics, with some familiarity of Classical Mechanics and General Relativity assumed. Basically it's a review of Lagrangian and [...]

Timeline AS2 source code

Patrick Mineault — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 12:20:17 +0000

Here is the AS2 version of my old interactive timeline movie. A little dated but I think it's aged pretty well.

See it live here. Download the source here.

Honestly I don't quite remember how to add or remove timeline periods, it should be written in there, the source is pretty well documented; if you figure it out [...]