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WebM Overview
May 19, 2010

On, February 19, 2010 Google finalized its acquisition On2 Technologies, the creator of the VP8 codec, the codec used in WebM. (On2 (formerly The Duck Corporation) was also the company which created VP6, the video codec used in Adobe FLV2 format.) On May 19/20 during the Google I/O Developers Conference in San Francisco, Google released […]

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General
How To Create WebM Videos With Flix WebM
May 19, 2010

Download the Free software from Wildform (currently Windows only).  Check for updates, Flix WebM will also support 2-pass encoding in the near future. Open the input video (this video should be playable on your computer as Flix uses codecs installed in your computer to read the video).  Almost all format are supported: WMV, MOV, AVI, […]

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Blog
Google Chrome: Developer Friendly, No Java Support On Mac (Yet)
April 1, 2010

Chrome is shaping up to be the best browser around.  It’s fast and it is developer-friendly, with its own Firebug-like tools.  Under View->Developer->Developer Tools you can find the goodie. See below for screenshot. The Element inspector can be accessed with the Magnfying Glass icon on the bottom, and then you can hover your mouse to […]

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HTML
Using PHP GD To Add Watermark To Images
March 28, 2010

In this example, we will be adding a watermark (logo) into an image using PHP and GD library. For introduction to PHP GD, visit this post: /blog/2010/03/using-php-gd-to-create-images/ This is the logo image that I will be using: This logo is a PNG file with alpha channel. With transparent images, using PNG is better than using […]

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ActionScript
Flash AS3: Processing RSS Feeds – Part 2
March 28, 2010

This post continues the topic of reading and parsing RSS2 feeds which were discussed in the previous post and can be found here: https://permadi.com/blog/2010/03/flash-as3-processing-rss-feeds/. Building from the example in that post, we will do the following improvements here: Cycling though posts. Enabling users to read the full post. To begin with, we added two buttons […]

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ActionScript
Flash AS3: Processing RSS Feeds
March 27, 2010

This is a basic example of loading and processing RSS2 Feed in Flash. It assumes familiarity with the Flash authoring environment and basic programming, in particular, XML processing and text field. For an introduction to using XML in Flash, you are encouraged to read this post: https://permadi.com/blog/2010/03/flash-as3-basic-xml-reading-and-parsing-example-part-1/ For our example, let’s use RSS2 standard since […]

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HTML
Using PHP GD To Create Images
March 25, 2010

PHP is a powerful scripting language and there are many powerful plug-ins available. One of them is GD, which can be used to create images on the fly. GD, originally developed by Thomas Boutell by far is the most popular image-processing library for PHP (it is also available for other languages like Perl). GD has […]

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HTML
Dashcode Invader: Using Dashcode To Create A Game – Part 2
March 21, 2010

Continuing from: https://permadi.com/blog/2009/05/dashcode-invader-using-dashcode-to-create-a-game/ Base class for the objects in the game. Let’s consider what objects will be in our game. I can think of three-types: Player ship Enemy ship Bullet These objects have in commons these charateristics: They all have positions. They all can move (needs speed variable). Let’s call the base class GameObject from […]

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General
HTML5: Text Rendering Overview
March 20, 2010

Here are some samples and brief explanation of HTML5 Canvas text related functions. A HTML5 compliant browser (such as Firefox 3.5) is required in order for the examples to work. Basic Text   Use strokeText or fillText, both takes x, y and maximumWidth. The colors are determined by the fillStyle and strokeStyle <script language=”JavaScript”> function […]

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HTML
WordPress: Customizing Category Pages
March 20, 2010

I am using WordPress 2.9 for this example: Open Appearance -> Editor. Locate the php file that is being used to display categories.  It’s either Archieves.php or Categories.php.  You can echo something and open up a category page in the browser to see which one is being used. You can also edit the file in […]

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