Wheeler Street Design http://blog.wheelerstreet.com RICH INTERNET APPLICATION PROGRAMMING, USER EXPERIENCE DESIGN & ADOBE FLEX Fri, 21 Nov 2008 14:45:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1 en Flex Gumbo Notes: Skins and CSS http://blog.wheelerstreet.com/2008/11/21/flex-gumbo-notes-skins-and-css/ http://blog.wheelerstreet.com/2008/11/21/flex-gumbo-notes-skins-and-css/#comments Fri, 21 Nov 2008 14:45:05 +0000 elvezpablo http://blog.wheelerstreet.com/2008/11/21/flex-gumbo-notes-skins-and-css/ I’ve been poking around the MAX release of GUMBO and ran across the default.css in Flex 4 and it’s changed. What used to be a long list of semi familiar ( to an HTML developer ) CSS file has shorten to a list of one line skin declarations. It’s a refreshing change but it makes me wonder what the new role of the expanded CSS will have in GUMBO. More as it is uncovered.

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]]> http://blog.wheelerstreet.com/2008/11/12/going-to-max/feed/ Lunchtime running clears the head http://blog.wheelerstreet.com/2008/11/11/lunchtime-running-clears-the-head-and-stinks-up-the-office/ http://blog.wheelerstreet.com/2008/11/11/lunchtime-running-clears-the-head-and-stinks-up-the-office/#comments Tue, 11 Nov 2008 22:09:27 +0000 Dave http://blog.wheelerstreet.com/2008/11/11/lunchtime-running-clears-the-head-and-stinks-up-the-office/ We’ve been finding a few trails around San Rafael, and getting to know some streets with minimal traffic and traffic signals. Here’s today’s path:

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One of the reasons we moved to Berkeley, in addition to the French school and the food, was the culture a large part of which stems from the University right up the street. This weekend we had our first opportunity to attend a lecture series on Artistic Appropriation, Fair Use and Copyright in the Digital Age. I originally went to see the Billboard Liberation Fronts discussion on Media Banditry but we arrived early and were able to catch the Archives and Museums in the Digital Age.

Archives and Museums in the Digital Age

I found this to be a very thought provoking section on the importance of reuse of works and ideas in modern art and somewhat validating as I’ve never quite resolved digital art as being a true art form. It was good to see that it’s still finding it’s place amongst the fine art institutions and that people such as Rick Prelinger and Richard Rinehart art taking steps to archive and define it. Rick Prelinger runs a well known euphermera library an archive in San Francisco and lectured on the importance of reuse in art. His talk was fast and covered much ground in 14 very good points. I hope to check out the library at some point, maybe they’ll have my book.

Media Banditry

Money t o Burn A more entertaining discussion on billboard liberation and the importance of documentation when performing “improvements” on “client” work. They mostly do it for the fun and fame and go to great lengths to make sure the original works and workers are respected. To the extent that they leave good Scotch for the billboard workers and instructions to undo their work.

Overall it was a great series and I hope to attend not only art but some science talks in the future. I’m not sure how much longer I can take my 9 mo. old daughter tho she’s starting to make a little to many contributions to the discussions.

]]> http://blog.wheelerstreet.com/2008/11/10/takeovers-and-makeovers/feed/ MTV API has a Crossdomain file! http://blog.wheelerstreet.com/2008/10/29/mtv-api-has-a-crossdomain-file/ http://blog.wheelerstreet.com/2008/10/29/mtv-api-has-a-crossdomain-file/#comments Wed, 29 Oct 2008 14:51:37 +0000 elvezpablo http://blog.wheelerstreet.com/2008/10/29/mtv-api-has-a-crossdomain-file/ This is going to be fun. MTV has just released 1000’s of videos AND and API. I usually don’t get my hopes up about an API until I check the root directory for a crossdomain file and lo and behold it has one! http://api.mtvnservices.com/crossdomain.xml Now time to make my own video pandora service!

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Seriously it’s going to be an interesting conference I dont’t think I’ll make both days but I think the WSD team between Dave, Aaron and I will. We’re going to try to get something out to the public we’ll see. Ahh it’s good to blog again. Go groove salad.

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For better explanations and other possible causes check here: http://rjowen.wordpress.com/2007/06/21/internal-build-error-or-classes-must-not-be-nested-error/

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]]> http://blog.wheelerstreet.com/2008/08/05/amazon-for-the-blind/feed/ Prepop Humming Bird HipHop http://blog.wheelerstreet.com/2008/07/29/prepop-humming-bird-hiphop/ http://blog.wheelerstreet.com/2008/07/29/prepop-humming-bird-hiphop/#comments Tue, 29 Jul 2008 16:39:54 +0000 elvezpablo http://blog.wheelerstreet.com/2008/07/29/prepop-humming-bird-hiphop/ JT put this on the tubes for all to enjoy and enjoy I did.

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