Decode is a modern exhibition up London. It’s art based around Human Interaction on modern Technology. It uses Human movements to invoke the art work to produce a reaction. This could be through simply walking in front of an exhibit or picking something up and interacting with the exhibit to get a reaction.
Decode looks at three current themes within digital design:
Code shows how computer code, whether bespoke, or hacked and shared, has become a new design tool.
Interactivity presents works that respond to our physical presence.
Network charts or reworks the traces we leave behind.
One peace called Venetian Mirror By Fabrica which looked like a mirror forced the viewer to slow down before a response was given. Venetian Mirror blends digital technology with traditional Venetian glass. When you walk up to the Venetian Mirror, your image doesn’t immediately appear in the mirror. Only if you keep very still, will your reflection slowly appear, like a photograph being developed.
I found Body Paint to be rather exciting. Body Paint is interactive performance, basically allowing you to paint on a virtual canvas. Using your body as the brush, a screen fills in for the canvas. Sensors interpret gestures and dance into a wash of colors on the screen, allowing for evolving compositions. Think of Body Paint not as a painting application but more of a full-body instrument that you can play with and interact with to create something beautiful.
Another exhibit called Digital Dandelion which was made by Sennep. The exhibit is based around you having control over the environment. The interactive exhibit allows you to blow away the seeds of a 3D Dandelion with an electric hairdryer in real time. So depending on where you point the hairdryer, it would alter the movement of the Dandelion seeds. This digital design was rendered mostly in Maya.
Check out the video that I recorded below on my HTC Touch Pro.
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On 16th of March Microsoft released a Developer Preview (DP) of Internet Explorer 9 at MIX 2010.
Now when every website designer thinks of IE they think of the days when IE6/IE7 was around. Those days where hell. Then IE8 came along which basically brought IE up to scratch with a few standards mostly ACID2, but of course a few qwerks.
But then IE9 was released. They have basically rewritten parts of the rendering engine. The whole JavaScript part has been rewritten. It’s insanely fast and they have not even finished tweaking it etc! It’s currently just slower than Firefox 3.7 Alpha 2! Anyway under IE9′s hood they have added GPU rendering and SVG support. Gone are the day of Windows XP Support! Internet Explorer Platform Preview requires Windows 7 (x86 or x64) or Windows Vista SP2 (x86 or x64).
Below is some Sunspider JavaScript Test results.
It looks like Microsoft is paying more attention to standards, as they are supporting HTML5 and CSS3, while also improving rendering speeds. IE8 Scored 20 points on the ACID3 test, and now IE9 scores 55 on the ACID3 test.
Overall IE9 is a massive improvement on IE8 and we can expect these results to improve! As this is only a Developer Preview, which is basically like an Alpha.
Note: This early Platform Preview is not intended for production use and is released without support.
So it finally came to happen, I ended up forgetting the MYSQL Linux root password. DOH! So I began thinking to myself whats the best way for doing this. I don’t fancy doing a full MYSQL reinstall as I don’t want to risk loosing data etc. I finally found out how to do it, it’s rather simple as well.
Basically you SSH into your server, in my case you SSH as a normal user, as i have direct root log in disabled. Next you SU to root. This way we can do everything we need to.
The reason we need root is because we are going to be doing changes to some parts that only a system admin can do.
We start off by shutting down MYSQL
pkill mysqld - kills the daemon, if it is running.
Now that the MYSQL daemon is shutdown we can then enter MYSQL safe mode, while skipping grant tables
mysqld_safe --skip-grant-tables &
Next we log in to MYSQL using root with no password because we are in safe mode
mysql -u root mysql
Next we are going to UPDATE the MYSQL database where the user is root. As we are now going to set the new password
UPDATE user SET password=PASSWORD("passwordhere") WHERE user="root"; FLUSH PRIVILEGES;Once done we need to shutdown safe mode
pkill mysqld_safe
Then it’s a case of just starting MYSQL again
/etc/init.d/mysql start
There we go MYSQL root password reset done!
So I’m slowly working on a little PHP CMS which someday will power one of my sites (Not this one though). Mostly something i work on in my own time. Currently working on the Admin Backend for the script, which has all hard coded HTML inside PHP.
Anyway a user of a site was having trouble with PHP and wanted a Password Reset Script, and as i figured at some point I’m going to have to add one to my own, I decided to code my own.
The aim is produce a script which has a form made up of two objects. One of those being a text box and the other a submit button. I will be talking about aspects of my script below and then produce the full script at the end.
The full script Password Reset Download
A while ago I done a photo shoot for a clothes company called ZizzyFay. It was location based photography. Well it would appear that ZizzyFay have finally added my photo’s to their wonderful website. The photos are designed to show of their dresses using two different female models, Zoe and Alex. Overall I’m pleased with the photos and I’m glad loads more people can appreciate them. One set was taken in the woodlands and the other set was taken at the ruins of Crystal Palace.
View the photos here @ ZizzyFay and see what you think!
