Complaints about blocked pages
I was forced to block access to a few pages from my work, so I started to be hated, my good friend from “Full of caffeine” help me writing a little script to send me your comments.. source below:
complains_about_blocked_internet.sh
echo $1 > /dev/null
echo "Polo says: Thanks for your feedback!"
(this is supossed to be a joke, only runs on *nix compatible OS)
Ad-sense in Air ?
I was on a project this week, and it have a requriment of having an google ad inside an AIR, while technologically is posibble with a few tricks, I encounter a more philosophical question, and thats because the terms of service doesnt say anithing about this, even I have a search, waiting from someone from google to answer;
The question, does anybody knows what google thinks about this ?
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/AdSense/search?hl=en&q=adobe+air
03.31.09Degrafa + Webcam = FlexPop
I was trying to learn the powerful Degrafa extension in flex, so I decided to make some tests, and I want to share it with all of you, its far from perfect, and its only a minor example of what degrafa can do, but I really like it.
The purpose of this project is to make a 4 squared pop-art like image, based from the input of the webcam, just like the apple photo booth has.
I seems like a basic task at the beginning, because making a surface with the squares above an image was going to be easy.
The problem begun with the web cam, I only have one web cam, so for an hour or so, I assume the method Camera.getCamera, will return me the reference to the only web cam I had… big surprise, this wasn’t true, appears like the operating system has virtual cameras (I suspect why), but these cameras are first, so I decided to put a list and let the user decide which camera he wants to process.
Another tricky one, was that first I tried to put a canvas above the VideoDisplay, another big surprise, you can’t do that, the video display likes to be on top.
This las item keep me thinking about how to mix the input of the camera and blend it to the degrafasurface… I really hope that someone with better skills can tell me a better way, but the solution I found was to use a bitmap fill and copy the bitmap of the videodisplay. Might not be memory efficient, but is not resource hogging.
So, I let you the link to the app:
http://www.zerokernel.com/degrafa-test/
And the link to the code:
http://www.zerokernel.com/degrafa-test/DegrafaExample.zip
(the code is released as is, I’m not responsible if it breaks your computer or your big plasma screen, just be fair and don’t link it directly, give me some credit)
please post your comments and ideas, its the only way we can learn 
2wire bridge mode
I live in mexico and a lot of times I get mad because the low capabilities of my 2wire modem-router, I always wanted to be able to maintain the PPPoE connection by other computer, you got a lot of power this way.
Fear no more, searching in the internet I have found the answer to my problem, its just a matter of enter to the url “management” in our router, and then in the option “Configure Services” you can disable router modem.
For most of us, the url will be like this:
http://192.168.1.254/management
Damn telmex who doesn’t sells real modems, and want us to live by their rules ( I had to write it someday … )
– update 16 / jun / 2009
After trying and trying of doing this, I realize the modem could not find the PPPoE server to do the login, I talk with a sysadmin friend of mine, he tried to with mixed results, but he gave me a answer..
Appears like not all the firmwares are capable of doing this, so… next step… update the firmware !!! (I haven’t try this method but looks cool)
REMEMBER THIS WILL ERASE ANY TELMEX-FIRMWARE, I’M NOT RESPONSIBLE OF YOUR ACTIONS WTH THESE FILES, I’M ONLY PROVIDING THIS LINKS AS REFERENCE.
ok , read the disclaimer again please…
don’t forget to check your exact version of your modem
http://www.taringa.net/posts/1804294
http://www.orozco3.net/infinitum.htm
https://www.underground.org.mx/index.php?topic=18527.msg104587#msg104587
who wants to a pretty desk?
A friend of mine send me this collection of photos of workplaces…
Makes me feel awful about my own, but nevertless is inspiring
Delete Flash Shared Objects
While developing in flash/flex you sometimes want to delete your shared objects settings, of course you can always access to the flash player settings, in adobe..
http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager06.html
But sometimes you need something more “local”, so searching in the internet I found this firefox extension to delete the flash shared objets settings
It’s still in development but its working, so give it a try.
02.3.09Json Navigator
Hey guys, to complement my other post of the json validator, here is the json “Navigator” (netscape anyone?), it’s very useful for anyone dealing with complex structures.
http://danml.com/pub/jsonBrowser.htm
01.28.09Uncanny valley
I was always amazed how humans react to the fact to robots, CGI, and animations. There’s a theory that calls that we get repulsion to the fact that they look more and more like humans.
I was always amazed of robots, thats why I think I don’t care about this, but they offer a very good explanation, so I guess I have some of this… who knows
A very interesting reading, while we try to get a break of our jobs
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley
A non-cientific Flash vs Silverlight Size Comparision
I found a very simple comparision between Flex and silverlight, but indeed very funny, mostly for developers not for DRM lovers
Adobe Flex: 19 lines
Microsoft Silverlight: 164 linesMain reason for the difference: Adobe Flex has a [Bindable] attribute
Check it four yourself:
http://riaflex.blogspot.com/2009/01/size-matters-when-comparing-adobe-flex.html
01.8.09Json Validator
I’ve found a very useful json validator, specially when you are like me and forget to put the ” in the objects
