I have a weird relationship with AS3. As a designer, I hate how different it is, but, as a developer, I love how much easier it is to work with:
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A Quick FAP
December 9, 2007 – 5:55 pm
To help inspire growth on FAP, I’ve released A Quick FAP. It’s kind of like how people share videos on YouTube, now artists can share their works on their blog.
A Recommended FAP
December 9, 2007 – 5:51 pm
fAPI has been getting a lot of attention since I released it!
Inspired by all this activity, I created Recommended FAP. Enter your username, and it finds works that you will like based on your favourites.
The algorithm
December 9, 2007 – 5:51 pm
I finished the tags.xml data feed for fAPI today.
One of the interesting new features offered by tags.xml is finding related tags. A simple query on tags.xml?related=fox returns vixen, kitsune, vulpine, canine and tiger. The algorithm relies on people tagging things…so the more that people tag, the more accurate it becomes.
After that, I tried plugging in [...]
Eyetracking points the way to better design
December 9, 2007 – 5:42 pm
When photos do contain people related to the task at hand, or the content users are exploring, they do get fixations. However, gender makes a distinct difference on what parts of the photo are stared at the longest. Take a look at the hotspot below.
Although both men and women look at the image of George [...]
Colour by Complex Math
December 9, 2007 – 5:42 pm
The hotlinked error images are now mathemagically coloured with random, complimenting or high contrasting tints.
I was busy geeking around with the graphics processing powers of PHP…when I became suddenly inspired and discovered a solution to a very difficult colour processing problem I had been having!
One of the new features I’ve been working on for FAP2 [...]
Preventing Hotlinking, the sexy way
December 9, 2007 – 5:40 pm
Recently, a lot of FAP’s bandwidth has been going towards hotlinked images. This isn’t very cool. But, instead of slapping down an ugly 403-image…like…
…FAP sends a polite, eloquent, beautiful little message to the person trying to take our bandwidth.
Ghost Code and AI
December 9, 2007 – 5:39 pm
I was working on the new FAP, adding some fun little suggestion-type-AI things…when something unexpected caught my eye.
The program was organizing things alphabetically. I didn’t tell it how to organize anything…it just did it.
…why did the program do this? I never told it to…?
It’s called Ghost Code, where the program starts doing unexpected things…nothing harmful, [...]
Hacking CAPTCHA
December 9, 2007 – 5:38 pm
CAPTCHAs (Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart) are easily hacked…apparently.
So…I’m brainstorming different methods of testing for human intelligence that aren’t easily hacked by computers.
One major problem of conventional image-based CAPTCHAs are their inaccessibility to people that are blind. This shouldn’t matter to me if I’m developing a CAPTCHA for an [...]
Sacrifice design to get there first
December 9, 2007 – 5:38 pm
“You can establish yourself with a typically bad interface, if you’re early and lucky or if you have the market power to force people to use your product. See Myspace, Amazon, MSN, Windows, QuarkXPress. Once you get to be market leader with a typically complicated interface, you actually have a good shot at keeping your [...]