Visualizr source

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Ronny
on 7 January 2009
in Actionscript and Flash
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A few people asked me for the Visualizr source. I always said I’d post it on my blog ‘pretty soon’… Well… It’s not pretty soon, but at least I didn’t totally forget about it. Anyway here’s the Actionscript class I made in a Flex Actionscript project :)

I did some pretty naughty things in there, but it worked out the way I wanted it… So be nice :p
Make sure you have got the MP3 tracks in place ;) You’ll need at least one. Make sure you change the tracknames too.

Ho ho ho!

Published
by
Ronny
on 25 December 2008
in General
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Oh yes, this is happening!
I am really posting this kind of stuff :)

Merry chrismas!

I wish you guys a merry christmas (at least to those who are celebrating it ;) ). Enjoy the holidays, and especially the upcoming new year (since I’m not planning on dedicating a post to that as well).

The ‘this-is-so-cool-that-I-just-had-to-share-this-with-you’-post

Published
by
Ronny
on 20 December 2008
in Actionscript and General
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Or short for ‘4 Flash experiments you must have seen‘.

Normally I’m completely against all those posts listing a bunch of items that somehow relate to each other in some way, but I’ve seen a few pretty amazing things lately that I just had to share with you.

Fun with Fur

Andre Michelle posted an experiment of his a couple of weeks ago about generating fur in Flash. The results look pretty amazing. Looks like the pictures came right out of Photoshop. However he didn’t post his SWF, nor his code. So there’s no way I could use the effect on my own images. Mark Knol however did post his SWF. In fact he built a fur generator that will enable you to link to your own picture, choose the correct settings for the engine to customize the furriness to your liking and then let it render your furry picture (which you can download afterwards). Isn’t that cool? Make sure to check both of them out.

Andre Michelle’s blogpost: Click
Andre Michelle’s Flickr Fur Collection: Click
Mark Knol’s fur engine: Click
Mark Knol’s blogpost: Click
Mark Knol’s Flick Fur pictures: Click

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Vexxhost: Short for ‘Canadian hosting idiots’

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Ronny
on 20 December 2008
in General
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Well, it’s been a week since it happened but I’m still pissed as hell.

I’ve been hosted over at Vexxhost now for over a year. All in all price/quality is pretty much okay, however the service is really a major glitch in the company, and thus in the product they deliver. Let’s take a look at my history at Vexxhost.

  1. I’ve had unexpected downtimes which lasted days (not minutes, nor hours).
  2. My account has been suspended for 3 complete days once because of a CPU-overload on my site, without contacting me and informing me about this drastic measure.
  3. The permissions on every directory changed, which caused 9 sites/services to go completely down. Again without any warning or reason.
  4. A database backup was restored (without me knowing) overwriting data that could not be recovered afterwards.
    I’ve mailed them to ask them what happened. They never answered.

These incidents didn’t inspire much faith anymore, but a week ago it got even worse…

At the end of October I noticed the expiration date of my domain name (noCreativity.com) was set to December 12th 2008. I found this weird because I only updated my account a few months before (which included a domain renewal until mid 2009). So I mailed them asking them if they hadn’t forgotten anything.

The answer was surprising.

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Playr 2.0 is here!

Published
by
Ronny
on 18 December 2008
in Actionscript, Flash, Open-source and download
. 2 Comments 214 views

It almost took me an eternity, but at last it’s there: Playr 2.0 is ready.
Playr is a Flash Actionscript 3 class built to take the heavy lifting off your hands when building any kind of music player appliction in Flash, Flex or AIR. I put a lot of work and time in this project, and I think the result is amazing: Playr is hands down the easiest way to do so!

I’m very happy to finally release this. A lot of people helped me test it and gave me feedback.
That helped me a lot, and changed a lot of features. Special thanks to all of you!

I’ve put up a dedicated site for Playr where all of the information, code examples, downloads are gathered.
Head over there to read more about it!

More info:
Playr site: Click
Download Playr 2.0: Click
Playr 2.0 documentation: Click