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Home: Notes to my future self

October 15, 2012

Hosting a sever Yes Peter: your expensive 150 Euro per month hosted server is seriously under-powered. Why not host it at home? Basic config Fanless Atom-processor powered board 4 GB RAM 500 GB RAID1 for OS and services 2 TB cloud storage (USB3 external drive?) SVN / GIT File backups / file hosting?

Five things for 2012

January 14, 2012

2011, a look back 2011 was the end of a 5 year contract of an 560 m2 office space producing a revenue of almost 100.000 euro per year and costing me around 15.000 to 30.000 a year. After paying all my dues, that was a book I happily closed. From one long term Freelancing contract […]

Writing an app to write stuff together

November 15, 2010

Inspired by my own needs for collaborative and Wiki-style document building and Scrivener and Storymill I have added another pet project to my list: to build a collaborative tool for offline and shared content-creation and content management. It is a nice step back to what I have been doing and building in the late 1990s […]

5 things I am thinking about

August 26, 2010

Coined by Alper in my peer group and soon enough followed up by Kars here are my five things: The consequences of living by assumptions – Started by “The world of Null A” (inspired by the work of Anton Korzybski – “Science and Sanity” in specific) and followed by many others, including my recent read […]

Reboot 11 and presenting RoomWare/AnyWhere

June 28, 2009

Sunday, June 21 we received the following mail from Thomas Madsen-Mygdal: hi peter & alexander, sorry for this late response. would love to have the both of you present your proposal at reboot – and wire/augment up the venue if possible. can we make it happen? Luckily we already had a lot of work done […]

RoomWare, Augmented reality and new exiting stuff happening fast

June 4, 2009

This is a collection of AR and RoomWare related items and inventions. High definition 3D city maps Using aeroplanes, high resolution camera’s and software to crunch the images, a sub-division of Saab has created a solution to map cities and object in 3D. Watch the video here (blip.tv). Augmented reality using trackpoints from the environment […]

AS3 and rules based engines

October 21, 2008

In 2003 / 2004 I developed the “Fluid Flash Interfaces Engine” (FFIE) which I sublabelled “the poor man’s Flex” when Flex was released. Based on XML definitions and rule sets it drew all GUI-elements, made them interact, present data and connect to datasources. The idea behind the FFIE was that 95% of all basic logic […]

DVM (direct video manipulation) in Flash

September 21, 2008

When looking at the real stuff, the DVM we applied in the new Lancer Sportback minisite is more a trick than something else. Real DVM is about moving objects around in a movie, like a car driving away or a person walking across the street. The DVM engine analyzes movement of shapes in the video […]

RAD concept: From Visual design to Working App in Flash without programming

September 20, 2008

Basis of buildin Flash Database forms using a rule based Form engine.

AS2: Removing MovieClips with Event Listeners

August 12, 2008

In ActionScript 2 (Flash), movies that are still referenced by – for instance – an event listener, can not be removed by {movieClip}.removeMovieClip(). When removing a movieclip, it would be logical to assume that everything will be deposed of. It is more important to destroy something because you do not need it than keep it […]