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First he spent his free time as a demo coder, then dj, then he did the world-wide famous (and awarded ;D) Neon v2 and now...



:O!

As I, roughly, mentioned some months ago, we had the holidays already planned for this year's February.

Won't detail much on how it was, as I believe she is going to do a detailed report in a few days, but I'll post a couple of pics here.














And hopefuly Phodoob v3 will get released showing the album for this trip... er... soon! :D

As a side note, we saw a lot of movies on the plane / hotel, here are the results:

NICE!!
Michael Clayton
Tootsie
In the Valley of Elah

PSE...
Run, Fat Boy, Run
50 First Dates
Cheung Gong 7 hou
3:10 to Yuma

ER...
Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story
Miss Congeniality
L: Change the World
Kung Fu Dunk

I remember, on my early days, back in Spain, my father used to take a lot of weekends with a calculator in hand trying to do all that.

But, if you use your PHP+MySQL skills and do a quick system the first week you start your freelancing, then the TAX Return reduces to this:

SELECT SUM(amount) FROM income WHERE timestamp > '2006-11-01' AND timestamp < '2007-04-06'

That's a good example of good use of technology :)

There was a guy on escena.org yesterday talking about this pong in 1kbytes done in openGL. So, once again, I felt challenged and tried to do the same with Actionscript 3.

And well, after a bit of tweaking here and there, seems like managed to make it in 1,022bytes :D



You know where the sources are, don't you? But if you just want to see the snippet, here it's too.

EDIT: Kristof Neirynck has ported the code to AS2, and after a few tweaks turns out that AS2 creates tinier files than AS3. At least in this case. pong0.5k Maybe when going a couple of kbytes up AS3 would win AS2.

EDIT 2: And now, for something completely different, the same game in 393bytes. Nice one Matthew! :D

For years I was highly ashamed with the FLV player I coded for xplsv.tv :/ Somehow I was able to finally recode the player this Saturday. Very simple and minimal, with simple behaviours (VLC style) like DOUBLE_CLICK for going fullscreen and cursor keys to go forward and backwards.

And this is how it looks using the, also brand new, xplsv.tv embed code:

And... guess what, I'm sharing the sources of it too. But I'm doing it in a new way this time... (I'm afraid you'll need svn-handling knowledge from now on).

SOURCES

For months and months people promised they were going to send me vanilla coke packs from the US, but none of them really ended up doing. I guess they just wanted my real address to take pictures of me or something ;)

Anyway, thanks to Patrick French we have found a much better solution for this critic issue, if you feel like getting me a beer or something, here is the button you were looking for:

Thanks in advance, and thanks for the 1st beer Patrick :D!

UPDATE: Woops! seems that my handmade blog broke the Paypal snippet! :S Thanks Alan for letting me know :$

... or, how a music spectrum looks in 3D.



The effect was already half done having the blobby ball, so I though it could be faster enough to apply the effect that my pal Mac did on our old demo mdma.

Click on the screen for changing the tune. Tunes are from Paniq, Ochre, Prefuse 73, Esem and SebastiAn.

Enjoy the sources :)

UPDATE: Here it's another test. It's kind of ugly, but gives an interesting movement feeling :)

Now they're the dumbest company on the universe. That must have been most silly thing to spend money on, for sure.

Via.