http://charlescfenwick.com/blog Thu, 09 Apr 2009 18:47:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Just so you know because this tripped me up. When you are trying to get crypto to work by doing something as simple as erlang:sha_mac(Key, String) and erlang:md5(String) and getting nothing but a port_control/3 error. Don't freak out, it's just an error communicating with the call to the c library that ... http://charlescfenwick.com/blog/?p=37 This one can be pretty nifty. In my certain case I had a bunch of on screen items that I continually updating their alpha property but when there was a mouse over I didn't want to update that property anymore and peg it right at 1 so it stood out. ... http://charlescfenwick.com/blog/?p=35 I've run into this problem a few times I want to rotate and object by an arbitrary point. First off actionscript doesn't let you change you point from which you rotate when you change the rotation attribute of an object. By default when you rotate using the rotation attribute flash ... http://charlescfenwick.com/blog/?p=34 wow time flies I totally forgot I even put this up. Since my last post I've since made a flash game and it's currently on a commercial site, not really there yet so I'm not going to mention it. Otherwise I started on yet another tower defense game with has been ... http://charlescfenwick.com/blog/?p=33 I've always wanted to write a flash game. It's been so intimidating not just the having to learn flash but the how do I make a fun and addictive game. Well the first hurdle I think I've gotten over. Recently I've had to opportunity to learn flex. It's kind of ... http://charlescfenwick.com/blog/?p=31 How are you? I'm ok things haven't been going that well I'm burried under student loan debt, oh it's my fault I know but I d http://charlescfenwick.com/blog/?p=30 Not much to say other than I've played with it and it's the coolest thing ever. I'm thinking a crazy ec2 setup using these is in order. More later. http://charlescfenwick.com/blog/?p=29 Credit cards are great you can cover some of your expenses if you come up a little short and as long as you can pay them off in a reasonable amount of time they are great deal. If you use them in that way, on the other hand, you can ... http://charlescfenwick.com/blog/?p=28 I took a trip a few years back with my sister. She was living in Hong Kong at the time and I was at her place and she mentioned that she could take some time off and if I could go some place, where would I want to go? Some ... http://charlescfenwick.com/blog/?p=27 Nothing new going algorithm wise here just used the closest color then segmented histograms and then the minimum distance methods to make these. They didn't turn out as well as I hoped but I started with some crappy source images anyways I'm looking forward to trying more. But even more ... http://charlescfenwick.com/blog/?p=26