Prior to choosing a winner we had to decide, just that, how we were going to choose the winner. The obvious way would have been to print off everyones names, cut them up, put them in a hat and pick one. Since it is 2009 I figure I can do better than the analog way and I don’t have to risk trees, paper cuts, or loss of fingers (my scissor skills are not the best), so out comes flash and a 20 min code session begins.

I came up with this little gem, where you enter the number of entries you have and a number greater than or equal to 1. The application uses this number to select a random number to decide how many times the Math.random function is ran before the winner is selected.

i.e. say you put 50 in that section the Application grabs a random number between 1 and 50, say 44, then determines that the 44th random number selected will be the winner.

Test it out here.

I know it’s pretty lame but maybe it will help you in selecting a winner for some drawing your doing. Plus I wanted to post it so when I do another drawing for Flashpitt I can just use this one.

Click here to download the source.

Happy Flashing.

Mr. MacBook Pro - and his pretty stickers

A quick break down of the stickers, Left to Right, Top to Bottom.

• Guitar Hero Star from GH Sticker pack.
• Adobe Stickers, all CS3, I have the CS4 ones but I don’t like them as much.
• Skullcandy Sticker
• kidrobot sticker
• Flash smashing Flex
• Wine Library TV sticker thanks to Gary Vaynerchuk, I met him at FOWA Miami.
• AIR Sticker

That’s all for now…

New things I’m excited about:

• It’s winter so I’m snowboarding a lot.
• I’m taking a trip to Miami between February 20th and March 2nd.
• I’m taking a trip to Honolulu between March 27th and April 5th.
• My new bike a 2008 Biachi Pista.
• Planning Flashpitt09
• My GPS Data Logger so I can track where I take my photos on Flickr

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Here is a link to see the photos.

Video streaming by Ustream

Update: Since the ski trip is coming to a close all the live feeds are down, sorry about your luck.

This past Monday I returned from a 2 week backpacking trip around Europe, covering Spain, Germany and Austria. On my return I received one of the greatest gifts ever, Twitter and Verizon now play nice and I get all my updates even the ones with “@” symbols.

Thanks bunches people at Twitter for taking care of this issue in a somewhat timely manner.

Just to make stuff clear I love me some Twitter and hate me some Verizon.

The real Twitter update:

What I get:

This book is for people just starting out programing it touches on a lot of entry level development, I believe it was published as a text book for upper high school/lower college level students.

This is what Twitter kicked out for me:

So it breaks for 2 main reasons, first you’ll notice that in the bottom line the script tag has text=”text/javascript” change this to type=”text/javascript” and lastly in the source of that same line http://twitter.com/s… r.json?callback=twitterCallback2&count=1. XHTML doesn’t like the “&” so change it to the proper way with & followed by amp;.

It should look like this:

That should do it, now it should validate at least XHTML Transitional, remember to flip out where is says “joekromer” in the JavaScript source for your Twitter name.

Enjoy!

Its called Lotsawater was developed by circle soft and if available to download for free! Click here to visit their site or click here to download it.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wl0V73sp838]

So any way thats the source which can pull in my blog, but your not going to want to do that, so I’ll step thought the things your going to want to change.

First your going to want to do is go to the Sign Up page for the Google AJAX Feed API and get your own key, which you should include in your head mine looked like this(Similar to the Google Map API key).

Like This:
<script type=”text/javascript” src=”http://www.google.com/jsapi?key=ABQIAA…nGw”></script&gt

Put your feed URL in place of my feed URL
var feed = new google.feeds.Feed(“YOUR URL HERE”);

I am pulling in the Title the Link and the Content Snippet which is the first 255 characters of the blog. Here is the page that tells you what all you can pull in.

Also your going to want to define how many entries get pulled in, by default it will pull the first 4 entries by add/changing this in your code you can define that.
feed.setNumEntries(3);

Last but not least create a DIV with the id = feed which is where the feed will get pulled into and style it up I already have 2 classes in the innerHTML called blogTitle and blogSnippet.

Here is the Google documentation which should help you get though any problems you may have.

Enjoy

My high score layout 6132!

I was also ranked 54th for a hole ten seconds.

Enjoy!

Beach

Tea House

Sweet Dreams

Thats all for now, maybe if I get some time I will put together the other ones!

The most recent issue

Here is a little walk through of how I did it.

First go to maps.google.com

Second put in a location lets say The New York Stock Exchange for this one.

Third select the location you want, in this example it is “A”

Fourth click “more info >” and you should get a screen that looks like this.

Fifth click “link to this page” and you will get a screen that looks like this.

Finally go up to the address bar it should look something like this: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=New+York+Stock+Exchange&sll=40.709402,-74.010086&sspn=0.027456,0.041885&ie=UTF8&z=16&ll=40.710524,-74.010129&spn=0.006864,0.010471&om=1&iwloc=A&iwd=1&cid=40706450,-74011086,16559247629889083090&dtab=0

Now just look through the URL for the latitude and longitude with out a period in it. We want this guy: 40706450,-74011086. Now add a period and put it in the JavaScript where the latitude and longitude go and your done! Final latitude and longitude:40.706450,-74.011086

Some Extra Info:

Feel free to check out the one I made here, also here is my source.
Some good documentation:

www.econym.demon.co.uk/googlemaps
www.google.com/apis/maps

Hopefully sites like this will inspire more people to push the limits of video based sites, because with great content you can produce some seriously entertaining sites.

On another note with the content that did make it on this site, I want to know what didn’t.

So here is the link to the site www.shaveeverywhere.com

And proof that this is good advertising, I’m going to buy a Philips Body Groom right now!

$74.90 and 4 days later I received my case of Cocaine or as I like to call it a “Kilo”.

So I crack(no pun intended) open a can.

Here are a list of taste/sensations in chronological order.

1. Energy drink taste, plus berry-ness, much like the Sobe No Fear Energy Drink.
2. A burning sensation isolated to the back of my throat.
3. A numbness of my mouth and throat.
4. Loads and loads of ENERGY.

Over all I rate it very good for an energy drink! I would say it offers the most bang for your buck being rated 3.5 times more powerful than Red Bull and costing me around $3.12 a can I would say it is well worth it.

Here is a photo of the can.

and the case.

Also feel free to check out the site, unfortunately it is only sold in certain areas, New York, Los Angles and some spots in Florida. It is also available on Amazon but carries a huge shipping and handling fee.

I ordered from user ulci2004 on eBay who was very professional and fast!

They are pretty tough but a lot of fun.

Here are is a screen shot of the Grow Cube before and after I beat it.

Also here is a [link] on how to beat grow cube(I’ll post the others once I beat them all)…WARNING SPOILER.(Just click the icons based on the number I put next to them!)

Grow RPG Spoiler

Grow Version 2 Spoiler

In some cases I went from a 350KB 24 Bit PNG to a 40KB 8 Bit PNG with little loss in quality.

Check out this [Link] to see what I mean.

I’m making open souce so people can use it and critque it. I still consider myself a n00b in this flash stuff but check it out let me know what you think.

[Link] for the files!

Para PixelFumes request I’m working on a pause button and a time scrubber. Hopfully I can have this updated soon.

Joe

[link] for the demo