I finished working on a new partially flash website for EBBA (European Border Breakers Awards).
The site is nice combination between flash and HTML.

I must say it was really fun to do and I hope I get more opportunities to work on projects like this one!

Check out the result at : EBBA

(Only “Home” and “The winners” are flash)

Watwiljijmetwiet.nl is a site for prevention and decreasing of problematic cannabis usage. The site is mainly targeting people between 16 and 25 years of age. Watwiljijmetwiet.nl offers information, tips, but mainly a selftest and selfhelpprogram. Last year there where about 220.000 people using cannabis in the Netherlands.

The Preffi-prijs 2009 is an initiative of NIGZ and is handed out to the most promising project in the area of healthcare and illnessprevention.

The platform is build generic and can be extended for other addictions but the first release is for an alcohol addiction. The platform consists of seven Flex applications, from these applications the client uses three. The other applications are used by counselors and administrators.

The Clientapplication

Via this application the client communicates with the counselor. The counselor can send assignments which help the client to complete the treatment. From this application the diary and help can be openend.

The Diary

During the treatment a client can fill in his alcohol consumption. Also the counselor can monitor the drinking habit and set a drinking target for the clients.

Via the moment description panel a client can describe what he was feeling and why they wanted to drink.

The other applications which are used by administrators and counselors are used for administration and maintainability.

Tips

Define your stylesheets beforehand! Doing this after a couple of months without any good structure in the beginning isn’t the best thing to do.

We learned a lot about security. Medical information has the highest privacy rating so it needs to be kept as save as possible.

We used subversion and cruisecontrol on a remote server to develop and deploy our project with ease.

Potential clients can sign up via a website called alcoholdebaas.nl (alcohol treatment [dutch]) .

So, it’s been a while…
To make it up to you I asked myself the following question:
What is interesting for them and me.

Obvious AIR is something interesting to play with, and (maybe you know it) www.flickrbabes.com is interesting to. Seems to be a perfect match! Therefore I created an AIR application which shows you your daily dosis of FlickrBabes. And to make sure you don’t forget it, it has the option to start at login!

It will probably have some issues (hope not) and because it seems to be a trend to release everything in BETA, I will do it to. Here’s Flickrbabes in the AIR app BETA :P

In the sidebar there’s an automated installer ! While FB is offline I decided to remove it.

I started to create a simple 'lava planet' in Cinema4D, made a video of it and put it on the timeline in flash (I know on the timeline is not a best practice but it will do for now). Next I came up with a nice effect with dynamic particles and decided to get lava pouring out of the sphere.
What it does:
- Every frame
1. It creates a bitmap of the video.
2. It "reads" every pixel (of the bitmap) and looks for a specific color range.
3. When there's a pixel located, a new particle is added.
4. The particle starts to live its own life untill it reaches a specific y value and dies.
5. From all the particles one bitmap is created
6. Put some filters on the particles bitmap.
7. Place the particles bitmap on top of the video and your done.

FCS Sphere

Volumetric Light

Sword (updated)

That's it for now....

This above works fine...but the following is what scares me the most....
trace("200.82" == 200.82) //false
Why the hell is the above false ???? And the really weird thing is
trace("200.82" != 200.82) //false
also false ???
So... it is NOT the same and it is NOT NOT the same?...wtf is it. AS doesn't seem to know what it is.

Ok, bear with me a second. The following:

trace("200.83" == 200.83) //true
trace("200.83" != 200.83) //false

...that seems alright

At this point, I tried to make some sense of it and applied the following rules....
If a string has one decimal....it turns out to work fine...
If a string has two decimals....it only works fine if the last digit is uneven...

The next thing to check is a string with three decimals and...there seems to be a different stupid rule here...check...

trace("200.811" == 200.811) //true
trace("200.811" != 200.811) //false

trace("200.812" == 200.812) //true (should be false according to last "rules")
trace("200.812" != 200.812) //false


Hmmm, it seems that we can erase the above rules from our head. It works fine at this point...what is that about?

One more sample...the second decimal after decimal point is an even digit.

trace("200.821" == 200.821) //false
trace("200.821" != 200.821) //false

trace("200.822" == 200.822) //false
trace("200.822" != 200.822) //false


Oh my god.....the second digit after decimal point is even and it is always false?? I can't seem to make sense of it....sorry...
I can probably go on and on with more samples (four / five / etc. decimal digits) but the point is clear....it's fucked.

If I trace typeof, it all seems to be a Number

trace(typeof(parseFloat("200.81"))) //number
trace(typeof(parseFloat("200.82"))) //number
trace(typeof(parseFloat("200.821"))) //number

Converting the String to a Number or use parseFloat doesn't work....so don't bother trying.

Maybe it has something (the way it parses a string to a number or visa versa) to do with rounding Numbers...see what Arno has to say...

Jaap