Tilt Shift Photo play
After checking out some links about tilt shift photographic effects in a tweet from Mike Chambers (@mesh) I thought I'd give it a quick try based on this tutorial. While I've seen tilt shift photography plenty of times before, I never really realized what it was or how it worked. At any rate, here are my quick tries at this awesome effect.
Note: I am definitely NOT a profesional photographer.
Another Note: Numbers 2, 3 and 4 were taken with my iPhone.
Another-nother Note: Roll over the images to see the before/after
Photo 1:
Photo 2:
Photo 3:
Photo 4:
Ok, that's all I got. See ya later.
My InsideRIA debut
I finished up my first blog post for InsideRIA this morning and thought I'd share on here as well. The topic I decided to cover is "Getting started with Spark skins". I hope it helps someone out and I look forward to posting more on InsideRIA in the future.
The links again:
Getting started with Spark skins
InsideRIA
Tour de LiveCycle
I was sent a link today (thanks Josh) and I wanted to go ahead and pass it on. The link was to the new Tour de LiveCycle. It looks pretty slick and I'm looking forward to really digging around in it.
What is it?
Tour de LiveCycle is a desktop application designed by the Adobe Evangelist team to serve as both an introduction to Adobe LiveCycle ES and an extensive reference tool.
You can (and should) install it from the Tour de LiveCycle badge below and you can (and should) read about more it on the Adobe site or on Greg Wilson's Ramblings.
Mark of the Web
A funny thing that I find about this line of work is when I learn about things that have been there all along but went unnoticed. Whether it's an entire section of a framework that you just never had an opportunity to utilize or a single line of code that does a little bit more than you thought. The latter is the subject of this quick post (which I started to write back in March but forgot to finish). The line of code in question here is very simple and it even has a name: "Mark of the Web".
So what is the Mark of the Web? Well, as Microsoft puts it:
The MOTW is a comment added to the HTML markup for a Web page. When a user opens the Web page from their local machine, Internet Explorer references this comment to determine the security zone in which it should run the page.
Here is the line as I most easily recognize it (although it can be modified in several different ways):
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<!-- saved from url=(0014)about:internet -->
So why am I writing about it? Because I removed it from the HTML of a project I was working on. After I removed it, I started getting security errors when I tested my project locally in IE. It took me a while to find out what was going on and I hope that maybe this post will help others find it more quickly. So anyway, there it is. The Mark of the Web. I hope this post saves someone a little time tracking down their local security errors in IE.
Flex 3 with AIR ACE
I don't have a huge post to write here, but I did want to share that I took the exam a few days ago (Friday, Feb. 27) and I'm very happy to report that I am now a Flex 3 with AIR Adobe Certified Expert.
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