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Flex 101: Creating an Interactive Chart

By Andrew Trice
November 6, 2009

In this post, we will walk through the steps to create an interactive chart with a Google-Finance-esque interaction.

Four short links: 27 October 2009

By Nat Torkington
October 27, 2009

Field -- a development environment for "experimental code" and digital art. We think that, for many uses, Field is a better Processing than Processing. Includes Python and Java bridges, goal is to connect to as many different programming systems as possible. OS X only at the moment. Contraptor -- a DIY open source construction set for experimental personal fabrication,...

Four short links: 23 September 2009

By Nat Torkington
September 22, 2009

Projections (YouTube) -- the incredible video projection onto an old English manor house by Kiwi Foo Camp alums The Dark Room. Where Will Synthetic Biology Lead Us? (NYTimes) -- a thoughtful article about the possibilities and cautions of synthetic biology. . “A house pet is a domesticated parasite,” he noted. “ It is evolved to have an interaction with...

Four short links: 15 July 2009

By Nat Torkington
July 14, 2009

Endogenous steroids and financial risk taking on a London trading floor (PNAS) -- We found that a trader's morning testosterone level predicts his day's profitability. We also found that a trader's cortisol rises with both the variance of his trading results and the volatility of the market. Our results suggest that higher testosterone may contribute to economic return, whereas...

The Art and Science of Experience Design

By Christian Saylor
May 22, 2009

In a world that is overly saturated with technology and the ever so present visual clutter of messages trying to vie for our attention we, as Designers and Technologists must embrace the "Art and Science" of the experience.

SmartArt and OpenOffice.oo

By Rick Jelliffe
May 6, 2009

I was happy to see Thorsten Behrens' blog entry SmartArt Import and More. Thorsten works on the graphics engine for OpenOffice's presentation application Impress.

Four short links: 30 Mar 2009

By Nat Torkington
March 30, 2009

A great free book, dead newspaper dig, movie Torrent wakeup, and money from free: Digital Foundations with Adobe Illustrator -- CC-licensed book that gets you started using Adobe Illustrator. I'm loving it, and I have the artistic ability of a particularly philistine rock. See also their advice to authors on how to negotiate a Creative Commons license. (via bjepson's delicious...

The Art of Storytelling

By Christian Saylor
March 23, 2009

I stumbled upon an NPR interview called “A Movie’s Look, From Toilet To Villain’s Lair.” An interview with award winning set designer J. Michael Riva. It was a fascinating look into the life of the Hollywood Set Designer and how...

From Open Source Software to Open Culture: Three Misunderstandings

By Andy Oram
March 22, 2009

The original practice and promise of open source software is unique. The software experience cannot be ported whole-hog into other areas such as sharing songs or organizing public forums.

Marc Bohlen: Finding the Intersection of Art and Technology

By James Turner
March 3, 2009

Artist-Engineer Marc Bohlen uses some fairly advanced technology to express his artistic visions. It's not often you find an artist with a degree from CMU in robotics, or an engineer with an Masters in Art History. Bohlen's projects explore how people and technology interact, ranging from the bickering robots Amy and Klara, to his latest project, the Glass Bottom Float. In advance of his appearance at the E-Tech conference in March, Bohlen talked to us about how he approaches art, and just what art is.

ILOG Elixir 2.0 released

By RJ Owen
February 23, 2009

ILOG announced the release of Elixir 2.0 this morning. Elixir is the powerful Flex charting framework available through ILOG. Elixir 2.0 provides several new modules to Flex: a calendar, heat maps, Gannt charts and pivot/OLAP charts. I'm particularly excited about the Gannt charts. I tried to build one of my own sometime last year and found it a much more daunting task than I'd originally imagined.

Four short links: 19 Feb 2009

By Nat Torkington
February 19, 2009

Art, astronomy and more fun for you in today's four short links: Found in Space -- there's an astronomy bot on Flickr that identifies stars in the night sky, and from the unique positions of the stars figures out what bit of the night sky is looked at and then adds notes for interesting parts of the sky visible in...

LovelyCharts is open to all!

By RJ Owen
February 4, 2009

LovelyCharts, the excellent Flex-based charting framework I blogged about in July of last year, is out of private beta and available to all. Head on over to the site to try it for yourself.

Hope Art

By Brady Forrest
January 29, 2009

The Capitol Hill Seattle blog has produced a short video about the surge of Obama art around Seattle. On the street you can find Shepard Fairey's Hope image has been put on garage doors and merged with donuts. It's also being used to advertise for local businesses (as seen in these coffee posters). The other day I heard an...

Four short links: 19 Jan 2009

By Nat Torkington
January 22, 2009

Hello from Whakapapa, a ski resort in New Zealand. These four links come to you via the wifi at the "highest hotel in New Zealand", which serves as a useful reminder that no matter how unremarkable one might seem, anyone can have a claim to fame if only they work at it. Apple Show Us DRM's True Colors - the...

Google, WalMart, and MyBarackObama.com: The Power of the Real Time Enterprise

By Tim O'Reilly
December 27, 2008

What do Google, WalMart, and MyBarackObama.com have in common, besides their extraordinary success? They are organizations that are infused with IT in such a way that it leads to a qualitative change in their entire business. I get frustrated when I see people highlighting use of social media--blogging, wikis, twitter, customer feedback systems like Dell IdeaStorm or MyStarbucksIdea--as if they...

Hard Work and Practice in Programming

By Tim O'Reilly
December 20, 2008

At the Program For the Future event commemorating the 40th anniversary of Doug Englebart's "mother of all demos" in 1968, I was privileged to hear an inspired rant by Alan Kay about the unwillingness of people to work hard to learn new skills. I'm quoting from memory, so the lines below are not exact, and there's no way I can...

Creative Commons needs your donations

By Andy Oram
December 13, 2008

Creative Commons is more dependent than ever before on the funds of individuals. More and more people these days are grabbing pictures, text, and other random goods they find online and using them in their own presentations or creative efforts; some of us even build businesses on open contributions. All of us should be promoting the Creative Commons, which has provided licenses to support such sharing in 50 countries and is working with people in many more.

Why Dell.com (was) More Enterprise 2.0 Than Dell IdeaStorm

By Tim O'Reilly
September 28, 2008

In my keynote last week at Web 2.0 Expo New York, I made the comment that, cool as Dell Ideastorm is, the fundamental supply-chain approach behind dell.com is actually a better example of how Web 2.0 applies to the enterprise. I also made the provocative assertion that WalMart is a Web 2.0 company (or at least a model of how...

Elixir 2.0 beta 2 released

By RJ Owen
September 3, 2008

ILOG released another preview of the 2.0 version of their charting framework, Elixir, last week. The new release features, among other things: A new Gantt task chart that improves upon the existing 1.0 Gantt chart to cover new use cases. New heatmaps components New OLAP & pivot charts to mimic excel-like pivot charting. Improved flex calendar and numerical indicators components.

Lessons on Blogging from Jon Stewart

By Tim O'Reilly
August 27, 2008

Why the NY Times profile of Jon Stewart holds lessons for bloggers and journalists about the future (and heart) of their medium.

Art Is Where You Find It

By Harold Davis
July 19, 2008

I'm not maintaining this photo is a piece of great art per se. But I do believe that if you want to take interesting photos you need to look with fresh eyes at the everyday things around you. We were getting the boys haircuts. At the hair cutting place I saw this mirror and reflections of bottles and the street....

ILOG starts preview program for Elixir 2.0

By RJ Owen
July 3, 2008

ILOG has launched a preview program for version 2.0 of their popular Elixir toolset. Whether you've been a fan of Elixir or you're a flex n00b looking for some sweet charting components, this program is for you. Elixir also has some new lower price points for developers who don't work for big companies with big budgets.

Flex Data Visualization Components from iLog

By Andre Charland
April 23, 2008

Ted Patrick has a nice overview of the Elixir data visualzation and charting components that iLog has been working on. They seem to be a good example of a commercial embracing Flex to create RIA components. There is some interesting chatter about paying for commercial components in the comments on Ted's blog worth checking out.

Given Enough Eyeballs - Art Meets Open Source in Philly

By Jim Stogdill
March 14, 2008

Art meets Open Source in Philly

PowerPoint 2008 SmartArt for the Design Challenged

By Todd Ogasawara
February 12, 2008

The new SmartArt feature in Microsoft PowerPoint 2008 for Mac can be a huge help for design challenged people like me. Check out the simple process to turn your bullet point lists into graphically interesting and, maybe, even clarifying images.

Data Visualization iGoogle Gadgets

By Andre Charland
February 7, 2008

I just saw the new Google Data Visualization Gadgets over on Infostehtics, apparently they have a whole bunch of other charts too. Sounds like they're pretty easy to use. I think this is definitely just the beginning of trend in easy to use, but rather specific, RIA mashup UIs.

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