Archive for August, 2006

Quick and Dirty 3-D On The Web

Sunday, August 27th, 2006

The following is just a quick summary of approaches I know to do 3-d on the web. If you know of any others, please feel free to leave a reference. Thanks!
Processing
Java Required to view this applet (Credit: Processing.org)
Product Home
http://processing.org/
What’s Been Done With It
On http://processing.org/ main page, look on the left side for the “Examples” [...]

Flex 2 Notes: World of Buttons

Monday, August 21st, 2006

Some notes I took going through the manual…
Old Fashion Button
Q: When to use a button control?
A: When you need to elicit user gesture to fire an event.

Quick Code:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml"
  xmlns="*"
  creationComplete="null">
 
  <mx:Button  id="btn"
        label="Hello World!"
        width="150"
        icon="@Embed(source='warning.gif')"
        click="myTextArea.text = btn.label"
        />
 
  <mx:TextArea  id="myTextArea"
          width="150"
          height="20"
          />
 
</mx:Application>

Pop-up Button Control
Q: When to use a pop-up button control?
A: When you want the button to take [...]

Video: Vader

Friday, August 11th, 2006

Was doing some research on Scaffolding plug-in for Confluence Wiki and I ended up stumbling on this clip:

From You tube via Random Bits

Use Cases 101

Thursday, August 3rd, 2006

No, it’s not used cases…I mean Use Case
What is a Use Case?

Text based description of how a system performs a behavior in response to an external actor’s request.
Use cases at first should always be simple enough that BOTH technical experts and business persons can understand it.
Use cases are robust enough to increase/decrease in complexity.

Who [...]