Posted in AS3, Code, Technical, flash, flexbuilder3 on Apr 10th, 2008 1 Comment »
The goal here is to use the excellent code editing and application debugging/profiling available in Flexbuilder and still have the rapid prototyping and layout ability that the Flash IDE gives to you.
To get started create a new “Actionscript Project” in Flexbuilder.
Now we will add some code to testDebug.as that traces out when the application is [...]
Posted in Code, Technical, python, snippet, utility on Jan 21st, 2008 No Comments »
I’ve been consolidating my music collection and found that there were lots of duplicate files.
Most of the dupes were named something like “Happy Birthday 1.mp3″ and “Happy Birthday.mp3″ would exist in the same directory. I’m not sure which program added these dupes, but removing 2500 or so of em by hand would not be [...]
Posted in Technical, python, twitter on Jul 20th, 2007 No Comments »
So I’ve spent a little more time thinking about this and have decided this utility would be better as a server utility that sits out in the cloud and monitors for my computer activity. If it doesn’t see activity for some set period it notifies twitter to re-enable SMS messages.
This takes care of any issues [...]
Posted in Code, Technical, Web, twitter on Jul 19th, 2007 No Comments »
I just started twittering and have found that getting alerts on my phone is great, just not when I’m also at the computer.
So being a good geek I thought I’d automate the process of turning mobile alerts on or off based on my laptop status.
So far I’ve scraped the HTTP headers and post variables so [...]
Posted in Code, Technical, audio, m4a, mp3, python, snippet, utility on Jun 6th, 2007 3 Comments »
I’ve been moving a bunch of my brothers music out of iTunes for him so he can use it with portable players besides iPod. Unfortunately he encoded a lot of his cd’s in .m4a format. I found a decent utility for converting to mp3 (and other formats) http://www.bonkenc.org/
Unfortunately when you point Bonk at a directory [...]
Posted in Technical, Web on Feb 26th, 2007 5 Comments »
I saw Simon demo Primecondition.com at last months Refresh Phoenix meeting and I have to say that I was impressed.
The gist of it is you create your workouts. Input your exercises, sets, reps, times, etc and the app generates an audio track for you. The generated track has all the verbal cues that a personal [...]
Posted in Code, Technical, for:elzr, python on Jan 18th, 2007 2 Comments »
After my recent wedding Jody and I were getting lots of invitations to view Kodak Easy Share photo galleries.
Unfortunately there is no ability to download quality copies of the images you are looking at.
Fortunately however I know me some intarweb. So without further ado I am happy to introduce RipAndZipKodakGallery.
Basically this a command anyone can [...]
Posted in Technical on Sep 6th, 2006 No Comments »
Congratulations are in order to Jim Hugunin and the rest of the IronPython team over at Microsoft.
You can download it from here if you like.
IronPython is an implementation of the Python programming language that runs on top of the .Net CLR which may not mean much to some of you, but is in fact [...]
Posted in Code, Technical on Feb 18th, 2006 5 Comments »
I’m releasing a new utility that I created for my design professor. He uses Alias to create VRML files to demo his designs to clients.
Unfortunately Alias is a bit backwards when it creates the files and instead of making .jpg files for the textures it creates .sgi or .rgb picture files, and it seems most [...]
Posted in Code, Technical on Jan 28th, 2006 6 Comments »
A Python application that makes it easy to use iTunes as your alarm clock. It’s alot easier getting out of bed when you play some kick ass tunes.