http://www.mcquilleninteractive.com/blog The official blog of McQuillen Interactive, an interactive company based in Santa Cruz, CA Mon, 07 Dec 2009 01:51:56 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Mihai Corlan posted a blog entry on running native processes with AIR. This is the feature many (most?) AIR developers have been waiting for. http://www.mcquilleninteractive.com/blog/?p=215 Like many other Flex/Flash/AIR developers, I've seen Unity3D and I've said "Now, THAT'S what I'm talking about." The stuff you can do in that program is simply fantastic, even if you're trying to do something other than create a game. Take for instance this post on visualizing a graph in Unity ... http://www.mcquilleninteractive.com/blog/?p=210 I found this great video of a talk by UI designer Ryan Singer, by way of Jakub Linowski's blog. Well worth the time as it compresses a bunch of great strategies into a nice concise presentation ... and also made me think "hey, what happened to my Tufte books?" [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/6702766[/vimeo] All really ... http://www.mcquilleninteractive.com/blog/?p=202 I'm trying to get my AIR application to communicate with Basecamp. Should be easy. The guys at 37Signals have their signature REST simplicity going on and the API is just sitting there waiting for basic POST and GET requests via AIR's HTTPService. Ok, so I want to get my projects from ... http://www.mcquilleninteractive.com/blog/?p=178 The program I'm working on for Lawrence Berkeley Labs -- COMFEN v3 -- just a took a nice step up thanks to a pair of designers at LBNL: Maria Konstantoglou and Anthony Ma. They've created a friggin' sweet building graphic with some fancy swooshes from the future, which now appears ... http://www.mcquilleninteractive.com/blog/?p=170 I've been thinking about patterns for green building, and wondering why there aren't more sites that collect and index these kinds of patterns as examples for interested architects and engineers. Today I came across a site that does something like this: http://architypes.net/pattern/design-process However, unlike the OpenPV site I blogged about earlier, this one ... http://www.mcquilleninteractive.com/blog/?p=162 For those of you also struggling with how to load modules into AIR, a few links http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders@yahoogroups.com/msg127375.html http://blog.esofthead.com/loading-modules-in-air-application-2/ http://www.mcquilleninteractive.com/blog/?p=160 The OpenPV Project is an effort by The National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL) in Golden, CO to collect and present data on solar-power installations across the country. I was browsing the site today when I came across their OpenPV Visualization flex app, an interesting way of browsing solar power installations. It ... http://www.mcquilleninteractive.com/blog/?p=156 ...everything has been mapped out clearly:  http://tinyurl.com/y9nlcgu http://www.mcquilleninteractive.com/blog/?p=154 If you're like me, you've been working your way slowly from the client side of things towards the server. You create your Flex apps confidently and you want that same confidence and productivity when creating the application and data layers on the server. Problem is, there's no language/tool combination on the ... http://www.mcquilleninteractive.com/blog/?p=149