December 2009
4 posts
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Overriding link_to in a Ruby on Rails/Facebooker...
I’m working on a Facebook app using Ruby on Rails and Facebooker. The app works as a Connect site or in an iframe app. Navigation in iframe apps is trickier than in fbml apps because links with the default target change only the iframe address, not the page address (shown in the address bar). Furthermore, Facebook only adds the fb_sig_ params when the Facebook app page is loaded. When a...
November 2009
5 posts
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UStream Cube: An experiment with UStream video in...
I’m working on the Electric Sheep Company’s StreamJam application, a flash-based virtual world that plays streaming video for live events. The StreamJam environments are currently using Papervision3D, which does not yet take advantage of the new 3D features in Flash 10. Papervision materials require access to BitmapData.draw in order to render a texture in 3D. For live or on demand...
Archived Flash Players available for testing... →
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Things I fixed after upgrading to Snow Leopard
I finally installed Snow Leopard on my 3+ year old MacBook Pro and iMac this weekend. We’re updating to Java 1.6 at work and Snow Leopard was the best way to get that version on my old 32-bit machines. I’ve only found couple things that needed to be changed after the update.
Adium
My old Adium font settings were broken. It looked right in the settings, but chat I sent did not...