Hmmm. I have a project percolating, but I’m not quite sure where to go with this one… Has anyone seen examples of a non-telephony driven speech recognition based interface for a flash platform application… any ideas from other developers where to start? I saw the Microsoft speech server page, but I’m not sure if that is what I am looking for…
So, I just realized that I have been running this site for a year… Nearly a couple hundred posts, too! I plan on pulling some of my favorite posts out and revisitng them soon, but work has been too crazy to get around to doing that. So until then… enjoy my archive.
It’s often difficult to know what to looking for when hiring a developer. Especially if you aren’t a developer… This blog post explores a list of telling signs that the person on the other side of the desk from you actually knows what they are talking about. A few of the recommendations seem to be common sense (Pasion, Self-teaching and love of learning), but some are pretty insightful (Has some hidden ‚Äúicebergs‚Äù, large personal projects under the CV radar). Overall a pretty good post from Inter-Sections. Some of the comments on the post get a little derisive about the authors thoughts. Not sure why, but then again, I’m not the kind of person to go to someone’s blog and try to start a flamewar, either.
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Directed by Eric Wareheim from my favorite show, Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!… Enjoy…
Ron Paul on Larry King 1-3-08 (UNAIRED) – So, this blog really isn’t political… It’s a geek design/development blog, but on the night before the caucases, Larry King interviewed Ron Paul… and didn’t air it. He played an hour of Suze Ormon instead. Hmm.
The GOP is clueless and pushing another hick into the nomination and we have an educated and rational candidate that can’t get any air time on traditional media. Sure, he has the Digg crowd and a healthy web following, but no one that watches TV knows about him at all.
I don’t get it. Please, someone, fil me in.
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At The Iona Group we were recently approached by the International Mission Board to assist them in creating a Presentation Viewer application to help distribute their message in a flexible fashion. We worked with them produce a Flex developed RIA delivered online in webpage, through a downloadable EXE (compiled with Zinc), and via AIR. The results are simply amazing. The app itself is pretty light. The assets they have are just great and the client was a delight to work with. Not often do you have a project go that smoothly. The main developer here on the project, Mark, really executed the client’s vision expertly. Furthermore, the client’s other vendor, SiteVision, was great to work with as well as they created the server side architecture to deliver the app.
The tool is capable of doing Ken Burn effects, dissolves, fades and lots of wipes, etc…¬† It palys video, timed audio slide shows, cue point triggered transitions. It can display Jpgs, SWFs (including Flash Paper), FLVs and h.264 content. It is able to do fullscreen presentations and the dimensions of the app are also configurable via parameters in the management tool (which we did not create).
I encourage you to go check out the site… a cool tool and a great message.