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Distortion effects in Flex

Tuesday
Feb 13,2007

While building my Flash apps, I always had an interest in the more ‘organic’ type of interface elements. Things like physics and ‘real world mapping’ pop into mind.

Inspiration came from projects like ‘Bumtop 3D‘ and ‘Project Looking Glass‘, both projects which try to change the way people tend to expect an interface will react on their actions.
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WordPress 2.1.. I made it!

Tuesday
Jan 30,2007

Just a quicky. Just started using WordPress…. and sure… they bring us an update :). Well, good work for the team because upgrading from 2.0 was a breeze. Took 5 minutes.

Mootools v1.0 is out!

Tuesday
Jan 30,2007

It seems to have been quite the struggle (mentioning v1 started a couple of months ago). Finally version 1.0 of the fantastic javascript framework Mootools is out and ready for you to download.

I started using Mootools casually quite some time ago. liked it instantly. In contrast with other major javascript frameworks, I liked the small filesize and low entry level needed for using Mootools in your project. Although the initial purpose for Mootools seems to be javascript based tweening, version 1.0 contains all kinds of other great tools which should make your javascript programming days feel less like a burdon :)