Archive for the 'Flash' Category

FLV to SWF and back

Friday, July 21st, 2006

My FLV::Info library now supports fast transcoding between SWF and FLV. Read more…

The FlipBook user interface

Friday, December 16th, 2005

The CoverFlow application is a technology demo that explores a clever way to browse your music collection. It attempts to loosely emulate the experience of flipping through a pile of albums or CDs. The application displays the album art for every album in your iTunes library sorted by artist or album title, and […]

When caches go bad

Wednesday, June 1st, 2005

In general, caching is a good thing. Creating a temporary local copy of some data can dramatically speed up repeated access to that data, especially if it’s hard to recreate or slow to access. However, if the local copy falls out of sync with the real data it can sometimes be disastrous. […]