Great article by Gerlinde Schuller over at AIGA
“Information design is explained in only three languages in Wikipedia. The term is not even listed in Encyclopaedia Britannica. This shows that the discipline is still far from having established itself, although its approach is as old as the cultural history of mankind. Information design focuses on the efficient graphic design of complex sets of information employing an interdisciplinary approach. The rapidly increasing complexity of data from our everyday lives has in the past decades led to information design distinguishing itself in the broad field of visual communication as a specific discipline with its own courses of study, practitioners and theoreticians.”
Posted by David Ehlers at 9:50 am on August 23rd, 2008. No comments... »
Categories: Design, ia. Tags: complexity, Design, experiment, ia, interdisciplinary.
Yahoo has released a pr1 of their revised YUI Library.
The YUI team is pleased to announce YUI 3.0 Preview Release 1. This preview is an early look at what we’re working on for the next generation of YUI Library. Pleasereview the API, play with the examples, and read the documentation on this site for details; download YUI 3.0 PR1 on the YUI project area on SourceForge; you can find us with questions or comments on the YUI 3.x discussion group.
This YUI 3.x is part of the broader YUI Library project, which is a coherent collection of JavaScript and CSS resources that make it easier to build richly interactive applications in web browsers. They have been released as open source under aBSD license and are free for all uses.
Posted by David Ehlers at 8:26 am on August 23rd, 2008. No comments... »
Categories: Code, JavaScript, ajax, api, css. Tags: api, Code, css, JavaScript, yui.
Just added a new page of useful flash links: Flash Links & Reference
Posted by David Ehlers at 9:33 am on August 22nd, 2008. No comments... »
Categories: ActionScript, Code, api. Tags: ActionScript, api, libraries, Tweener.
Finally! A quick, easy persistent storage for our EC2 instances…
We are pleased to announce the release of a significant new Amazon EC2 feature, Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS), which provides persistent storage for your Amazon EC2 instances. With Amazon EBS, storage volumes can be programmatically created, attached to Amazon EC2 instances, and if even more durability is desired, can be backed with a snapshot to the Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3).
Prior to Amazon EBS, block storage within an Amazon EC2 instance was tied to the instance itself so that when the instance was terminated, the data within the instance was lost. Now with Amazon EBS, users can chose to allocate storage volumes that persist reliably and independently from Amazon EC2 instances. Amazon EBS volumes can be created in any size between 1 GB and 1 TB, and multiple volumes can be attached to a single instance. Additionally, for even more durable backups and an easy way to create new volumes, Amazon EBS provides the ability to create point-in-time, consistent snapshots of volumes that are then stored to Amazon S3.
Amazon EBS is well suited for databases, as well as many other applications that require running a file system or access to raw block-level storage. As Amazon EC2 instances are started and stopped, the information saved in your database or application is preserved in much the same way it is with traditional physical servers. Amazon EBS can be accessed through the latest Amazon EC2 APIs, and is now available in public beta.
For more information on Amazon EBS and detail on how to start using this feature, please see the resources listed below:
Posted by David Ehlers at 8:03 am on August 21st, 2008. No comments... »
Categories: server. Tags: amazon, ebs, ec2, server.
Here’s a handy tool when developing for web services/amfphp/flash remoting making it a breeze to see what is actually be transferred. Check it out here: http://www.charlesproxy.com
Charles is an HTTP proxy / HTTP monitor / Reverse Proxy that enables a developer to view all of the HTTP traffic between their machine and the Internet. This includes requests, responses and the HTTP headers (which contain the cookies and caching information). Charles can act as a man-in-the-middle for HTTP/SSL communication, enabling you to debug the content of your HTTPS sessions.Charles simulates modem speeds by effectively throttling your bandwidth and introducing latency, so that you can experience an entire website as a modem user might (bandwidth simulator).Charles is especially useful for Adobe Flash developers as you can view the contents of LoadVariables, LoadMovie and XML loads. Charles also has native support for Flash Remoting (AMF0 and AMF3). More about Charles and Flash. Charles is also useful for XML development in web browsers, such as AJAX (Asynchronous Javascript and XML) and XMLHTTP, as it enables you to see the actual XML that is flowing between the client and the server. Charles natively supports JSON, JSON-RPC and SOAP; displaying each in a simplified tree format for easy viewing and debugging.
Posted by David Ehlers at 7:51 am on August 16th, 2008. No comments... »
Categories: http. Tags: ActionScript, amfphp, http, xml.
