Flex AutoResizable Textarea

I’ve been quite busy those past weeks, working on some great projects and cool devices (Stay tune one will be available in all high tech shops soon).
Recently, I faced a very simple Flex problem. I had to work with a Textarea but I needed it to be autoresizable, and ALSO I had be able to [...]

[Pixel Bender] Bright Pass filter

I’m pretty sure you already heard about pixel bender, if not check Adobe’s  or Lee Brimelow’s website for awsome tutorials. 
Today I gonna share with you, my first pixel bender code ever, which is a bright pass filter. This filter set the dark pixels to black according a threshold value for the ‘darkness’.

<languageVersion : 1.0;>

kernel BrightPassFilter
< namespace [...]

Skinning a Flex Slider

[a part II of this post is available here]
It’s been a long long time since my last post but I recently move to my new apartment and it ISP forgot to move my internet access…It was a bit annoying at the beginning since I could not work on the version of NURVE, but I had [...]

Create HTTPs request with phpWebrequest

I received several emails about my phpWebRequest php class, asking how we can create HTTPs POST request. Before I answer this I think it’s important to understant the HTTP authentication mechanism.
There are 2 kinds of authentication: Basic and Digest. I gonna describe only Basic since it’s very is to use in the phpWebRequest class.
Basic is the [...]

Increase the traffic to your website :: Perl hack

I was about cleansing my old blog archives, and I discovered a post that I never publish. The post was about a hack used to increase the number of visit of an web page. 2 years ago, friends of mine were playing an online game which consisted in forwarding more people as they can, on a [...]

T-SQL multi OUTPUT when using sp_executesql

One of my current professional dev project is to write an ETL from scratch using a lot of technologies. I had to play a lot with T-SQL (Transact-SQL) which was quite interesting to work with.
The code I will share today (not about RIA at all) is a cool trick when using sp_executesql. In some case, when [...]

NURVE – Public alpha release

I’m pretty excited today since I’m releasing the first public alpha version of a project I’m working on, based on Adobe AIR/FLEX and Papervision3D , called NURVE.
NURVE is 3D, film trailers browser with an iTunes coverflow like navigation experience. NURVE allows you to browse the newest films trailers and watch them in HD quality on any, internet [...]

How to Create/Read HTTP POST request

This post is actually a follow-up to my last one called http post streaming where I tried to create a php class that provides a way to send a HTTP POST request. I recoded the class and added new features (e.g. a way to read the body of an HTTP request, a dynamic way of [...]

HTTP POST Streaming

Yesterday I’ve been asked by a friend how we can easily http stream data from php. That was a really intersting question because it can be very useful in some case (e.g. when working with EDI). So I just made him a proof of concept.
I used socket to generate a POST HTTP request 
<?php
class PostRequest{
//SERVER
var $address;
var [...]