A case could be made that blogs and blog hosting websites like WordPress and Blogger are, so far,the most important innovation of this century, technological or otherwise. Prior to the advent of blogs, publishing online was a task reserved for the computer savvy. Sure, sites like Geocities and Tripod lowered the barrier, but still required a good deal of work and at leasta passing familiarity with HTML. It wasn't until blogs that the average person - my mom, my grandfather, etc. - could, with a
Publication date: 2009-02-14
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Papervision 3D Programming Tutorial - Animation
Posted by phyxx Learn how to load and display an animated Quake 2 model in Papervision 3D. Demo and source code included. Tags: 3d, actionscript, flash, flex, papervision
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Worldwide Terrorism Incidents: a great dataset for open government data geeks
Last June, Ed Felten and his team at Princeton published Government Data and the Invisible Hand. They argued that government agencies should stop trying to present information to the public, because they aren't good at it. Instead, they should just publish the data and let others present it. A few weeks later, the National Counterterrorism Center published a huge data set on its Web site. The Worldwide Incidents Tracking System has a few thousand records of violent acts going back to 2004. T
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A Trick of Using PNGs to Mask Images
Problem Summery: I want an approach to mask images with given PNGs. However, the inner of some of the PNG images are transparent. After I set the PNG as a mask, the area of the masked image below the inner of the PNG is invisible. Demo | Download Full Project PNG Current effect The problem is how to approach to the effect like this: Target effect Solution Summery: The method floodFill of class BitmapData provides me a way to achieve my
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