Icewhole.com - social networking for the film industry

Posted on June 28, 2008
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Icewhole

Perhaps this is a little bit of blatant promotion, but I am working on a very exciting project at the moment that takes social networking to the film industry - Icewhole.com

It’s an entirely ColdFusion powered site with an MSSQL backend and On2 Flash encoding engine powering the film and music video sections of the site. It’s still in beta form with plenty more improvements to come in the near future, but the crux of the site is that it empowers independent film makers to network with other professionals in their industry to help them produce and showcase their films.

Short films can be uploaded and promoted on the site (much like youtube, but better quality and at a targeted audience), with various awards handed out each month for uploaded films as voted by a panel of judges including names such as Morgan Freeman and Richard Attenborough.

There are some great films showcased on the site already so do visit and check them out, leave a comment for these young, upcoming filmmakers and if you like the site, signup as a “Film Fan”. If you have friends in the film industry casting directors are already perusing the site for potential talent so it’s the place to be if you’re in the industry and want to get noticed.

It’s exciting to be involved in such an innovative, exciting project with much more to come soon!

Firefox extensions - the essentials for any CF developer

Posted on June 24, 2008
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Since I discovered ColdFire and apparently I was late to the party, I thought I might detail the small number of extensions I rely on every day. They were the first things that got installed once I setup my dev environment on my new laptop and I regard them as absolutely indispensible for an CF developer.

The only other extension I use every day is FoxClocks - not strictly development related, but seeing as I am an Aussie living in the UK timezones and world clocks are important to me and I haven’t found a neater way yet of keeping track of the time back home. Regularly updated, it just keeps getting better. One of the best general purpose Firefox addins yet IMO.

If there are any other firefox extensions other ppl are using that you regard as indispensible, let me know!

Coldfire - revelation!

Posted on June 23, 2008
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I’m probably late to the party, but I only just discovered ColdFire - an addon for the indispensible Firebug Firefox extension.

I already find Firebug a must for any web developer. When I don’t have it available to me, I feel like I am blind trying to find my way around the maze of CSS box floating left, absoluting right and positioning relative. I wonder at times if whoever wrote the CSS spec was on drugs. But I digress.

ColdFire hooks into the CF debugger so you can get access to the same debug info you would get from CF if you had debugging turned on. Problem is, I often have it off these days since it severely slows down page rendering on some frameworks (ModelGlue) or buggers up the rendering of CSS layouts.

ColdFire to the rescue! Apparently it’s just made the top 3 downloads on RIAForge. Why haven’t noticed it before??

Anyway I’m a happy camper. The more tools in a web developers arsenal, the better as far as I’m concerned!

Welcome to On the Bubble

Posted on June 23, 2008
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After a hiatus, I’m back blogging about tech stuff. I already blog about personal stuff elsewhere since I’ve left Aus for the UK, but I’d prefer to keep the two seperate, so this one has been revived!

The combination of new things I’ve been stumbling across dev wise since coming over to the UK and a good friend inspiring me to get back into blogging about tech/dev stuff was the catalyst and couldn’t be at a better time. There’s a lot of exciting stuff going on in the Adobe/RIA space for web developers right now.

Hope I make sense some of the time :) Enjoy.

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