In the past few months, a few friends have set up their own hosting company, Djangofoo, which hosts Django content managed websites.
One of them also hosts a blog dedicated to Django stuff. Pretty Amazing, if your into that sort of thing!.
Designed by me (Art directed by Davo/Arif).
I just got back from the SXSW Interactive festival in Texas, it was the first time I have been and it was a really good week. Some highlights for me were the panels on HTML5 Vs Flash, new interactive systems from Microstoft/Razorfish and the free drink!.
This is one of the multi-touch displays. It was really fun to play with and you can see people using them in malls and tube stations etc.
This is footage from the Frog Design party we went too:
They gave you a card which was represented by a digital star map, each time you get a drink, connect with people or get your picture taken your star gets bigger. Some guy was hooking up with everyone and he was like a supernova!.
I had a bit of trouble trying to figure out how to move the depth of an object on the stage in AS3 today. Its actually called Z-order in AS3, not Depth. Instead of just using the AddChild function, which put the Movie Clip on the top of the display list, I used AddChildAt, which set the depth of the Movieclip while it was adding it.
So instead of adding the child this way:
global.base.bgSprite.addChild(whiteTriangle);
where the movieclip was just dumped on top of everything
I used this
global.base.bgSprite.addChildAt(whiteTriangle, 1);
The 1 moved the depth of the movieclip to the base.
p.s. this was an external ActionScript file.
Last month I got a call from one of the producers from North One Television, asking weather I wanted to help out on developing an IPhone App for the Gadget Show. They found me through my mate Ben who has developed an app before with Phillip Parr, a lovely little metal detector you can check out here. I don’t even have an Iphone so the whole thing was a learning curve for me.
I developed the interface in Photoshop at the following sizes:
So 2 Iphone apps were developed, Social Beacon and Biker Blast Off!. Both equally awesome. Here’s some more info:
Social Beacon:
We worked on Social Beacon. The gadget show presenter, Jason Bradbury came up with the idea for a social networking tool which lets you create super quick status updates for leading social networks. I have played it as a demo and it’s SWEET!, the status updates are so funny and really imaginative.
Biker Blast Off
Suzi Perry came up with Biker Blast-OFF!. Its a bike jumping game where you’ll need to use every trick on your iphone to achieve a record breaking jump. Developed by Media Tonic.
Both apps use the IPhone accelerometer feature and are available at the app store FOR FREE!!.
I have had alot of trouble trying to access the stage from Gaia Framework, but thanks to David, I’m finally getting the hang of it.
I needed to access the stage width (when resized) to create a a bar to sit behind the navigation on my site.
First I had to add this to the class constructor:
addEventListener(Event.ADDED_TO_STAGE, onAddedToStage);
Then create the following 2 functions:
private function onAddedToStage(event:Event):void
{
removeEventListener(Event.ADDED_TO_STAGE, onAddedToStage);
stage.addEventListener(Event.RESIZE, onResize);
onResize();
}private function onResize(event:Event = null):void
{
navBackBar.width = stage.stageWidth;
navBackBar.x = 0 - ((stage.stageWidth - Gaia.api.getWidth()) / 2);
}
navBackBar is the name of the movieclip on the stage. You can see it behind the navigation on my site.
This was a great Job for me to get my head around Final Cut Pro, I had used it before to edit a corporate video, but i did this really fast as a xmas special of our snowbording trip last year.
Man I wish I bought a HD camera when I had the chance, I’m the one wearing JEANS.