Brian Kiel

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• PhoneGap is a stickler for 100% valid SSL certs

  [bk note: the following post was written in November of 2011. As technology continuously evolves, the solution below may very well have changed/become obsolete.] I thought I’d share this little nugget, since it’s not very well covered within the tomes of the intertubes. I was using PhoneGap and SenchaTouch to create a native iOS app. […]

• 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.

• telegraph.js

  Javascript framework for creating scroll-based, programatic tweens. More information to follow, once it’s formally released.

• Hello There

  Combine Adobe AIR with Bluetooth with BlueCove (a lightweight server capable of relaying said Bluetooth data) and you get the, (maybe) cleverly-named “Hello There”. When running, it constantly scaned for Bluetooth devices in-range & made note of their device ID.

• Nike – Holiday 2009 “Chaser”

  Nike’s rich media ad for the 2009 holiday season.

• TBWA – tbwa.com

  Corporate home for TBWA Worldwide.  Flash configured itself via a configuration file, which was generated by a TBWA-made CMS admin area.  Map/location section utilized Flash Remoting (AMFPHP flavor) to sort/filter through the huge number of TBWA offices before drawing to screen for the user.

• Nike – dynamic display advertising

  Dynamic display advertising campaign created for (the online) Nike Store.  Applied concepts of polymorphism and runtime compositing to create a lightweight shell which pulled in the proper visual and text assets depending on the configuration received from the server.

• Sony Playstation – “Primal” microsite

  An immersive environment to introduce the user to the characters and experiences of the new Sony Playstation game Primal.  Utilized cut-scene video for level transitions.

• A handy visual guide to SQL joins

  If you’re like me, you enjoy partaking in the occasional SQL JOIN. But after a while the straight vanilla JOIN gets a little old (not to mention that it’s not always necessarily the most efficient way of pulling records). Thus I give you… A Visual Explanation of SQL JOINs Enjoy, and use it well.

• 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.