Brian Kiel

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• PHP hangs on numeric value 2.2250738585072011e-308

  If you’re running PHP on a 32-bit system, you’ll need make sure that your install has been compiled with the -ffloat-store flag. Otherwise, the PHP process will enter an infinite loop when you try to perform mathematic operations on the floating number 2.2250738585072011e-308.

• Avenue Fighter

  Constructed over two days at Adobe Flash Camp 2008. Avenue Fighter is a political-themed Twitter-controlled street fight done up in classic 8-bit Nintendo “Street Fighter” style.

• Sony Playstation – Jak II: “This is Jak’s World”

  Rich media with an in-ad game promoting the new Jak II Sony Playstation game.

• Tabasco – rich media expandable unit

  Flash rich media expandable unit with animation & video playback functionality.

• RandomHours

  The successor to 58hours.  Where 58hours was devoted solely to Radiohead (and coded according to the single-band premise), randomhours is able to handle data for countless bands.  I basically took everything that I’d learned about data-organization

• Flash Player 10.1 and Google Voice plugin bug

  This bug may very well have been around for a while, but it seems that the Google Voice plugin for browsers (Safari, Firefox, Chrome) is very possessive of its webcam. If you have the Google Voice plugin installed on your machine and you attempt to go to a site with Flash that wants/needs to have […]

• Methodist Health – mobile bestcare.org site

  Created a concise mobile site for Methodist Health System using the Javascript mobile framework jQTouch. Having looked at the analytics for the client’s site, I determined that the current mobile users had been visiting bestcare.org looking for a distinct subset of information. So, rather than try to cram all of the content from the standard […]

• Adidas – Boston Marathon – “What’s Your Reason?”

  A Flash kiosk application created for deployment by Adidas at the 2007 Boston Marathon.  When in place, allowed the user to enter their “reason” for running, take a photo (using the kiosk’s onboard camera), and receive a takeaway one-sheet containing (amongst other things) their photo, their reason, and a splash of Adidas branding.

• Kimera GPS

  Pronounced like “chimera”, and modeled after said word… Kimera GPS (“glyph pack system”) is the codename for a process I created wherein “font-packs” are compiled on-demand by the server and fed to dynamic display ads in the wild.

• Prestone – Rich Media Video Pushdown

  Pushdown rich media unit for Prestone. Involved video playback & a video selector allowing user to watch a second video once the first had completed.