May I just take a moment to vent my extreme frustration with the Facebook Developers API? Cardinal rule of development that you should change the public interface unless it’s a last resort. Facebook, who has made a practice of changing their API almost regularly, has got its application developers jumping through hoops just to keep old projects functioning properly. Read more
Flash File Uploader – Ïñtèrñàtíðñàl Çhàråçtêrs
A [d]online reader pointed out my ethnocentricity recently, in that the Flash File Uploader, which I’ve offered for free for years, did not include any functionality for retaining accents for international characters. This has been fixed and re-uploaded in a new .rar file of this project. For your convenience, the link is the same as the last one.
Comments and feedback always welcome. Thanks again, Mike, for the assistance and to [d]online commenter, Gerald, for pointing this to my attention.
Flash File Uploader v3.2 (RAR)
Complete FLA, PHP and file structure source files with options for Custom Directories, File Name Rewrite (with bugfix) and international characters.
Complete FLA, PHP and file structure source files with options for Custom Directories, File Name Rewrite (with bugfix) and international characters.
Centre Pompidou, Metz
Take an exclusive hard-hat tour and meet the city architect of the spectacular new Pompidou Centre in Metz by Shigeru Ban and Jean de Gastine.
Originally found: wallpaper.com
reCaptcha Hacked on Time Inc. Poll
This morning Time.com published the final result for their annual TIME 100 Poll. Time reports that the new owner of the title ‘Worlds’s most influential person, is moot’. What TIME doesn’t say is that their poll was so totally manipulated that the results of the poll are not an indication of who is the most influential, but instead they stand as a monument to Time’s incompetence.
Read the original and in-depth article on MusicMachinery.com:
http://musicmachinery.com/2009/04/27/moot-wins-time-inc-loses/
And naturally/ironically, if you have any comments, please enter them below and don’t forget to enter the reCaptcha. 🙂
The MTA’s Financial Posture
In April 2005, I sent an email to the NYC’s Metropolitan Transit Authority (or MTA) with a suggestion for helping them be more green.
You may or may not know that the MTA has 5,800 subway cars that run on 656 miles of track through 68 bridges, 14 tunnels and four boroughs, and carry 4.7 million people (1.7 percent of the US population) each weekday though 468 stations. You also may not know that the MTA, like most of NYC, runs off of electric power generated by oil-heated, steam-powered generators. So while the impression is that the MTA is green (because it’s not diesel-powered), it still consumes oodles of fossil fuel each day.
This is what prompted me to write them back in 2005, and to resend my letter on the four-year anniversary of it’s lack of a response. Read more
Benoit Godde
Take a look at the incredible illustration work by Benoit Godde, Parisian artist and designer:
http://www.porte-voix.com/
Stamen Design
I came across this site when Sean McDonald forwarded me a link to SF MOMA’s brilliant new site “SF MOMA ArtScope”. (Which, while, functionally, it takes a little while to figure out, the feature-packed design makes it an absolute pleasure to navigate and learn about the collection of modern art on the left coast).