Avatar – The Making of a VFX Scene

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So unless you’ve been under a rock for the past 3-6 months, you are probably aware of Avatar, James Cameron’s latest film. It’s been hyped as a visual effects masterpiece, but why exactly? If you aren’t familiar with the unique VFX processes they used to create this film, the following video should help. Watch below… […]

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Fluxiom: annihilate your clutter

fluxiom platform has been emulated by countless developers who set out to create a desktop-like experience on the web. fluxiom was one of the first applications to bring AJAX, Prototype and advanced visual JavaScript to the enterprise desktop. It also came with a standards-compliant front-end, composed of HTML and CSS to maximise portability and compatibility […]

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Something rotten in WCM

Contented Management > Something rotten in WCM. J. Boye’s 2009 Arhus conference was a learned and often humorous affair. The biggest lesson I brought back from Denmark was just how far away all of us who work in the industry — website managers, technologists, vendors, consultants — are from having good web content management. Alas, […]

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More Trouble for File Sharing: Virgin to Monitor in UK

More Trouble for File Sharing: Virgin to Monitor in UK. Virgin Media, one of the UK’s leading providers of television / broadband / mobile / phone services, hasannounced plans to use deep packet inspection technology to track illegal file-sharing activity among around 40 percent of its UK users. Users whose activities are being monitored will […]

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