07/19/2008 04:02 AM
About Curious Minds Media
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Curious Minds Media, founded in 2003 by Eric Meyer and Travis Robie, is a premier provider of rich internet applications, web design, animation, and graphic design in the hudson valley. We specialize in Flex, Flash, HTML, Cold Fusion, PHP. We are currently located in the heart of Kingston New York.
We are a company facinated by the future, and fueled by the synergy of information and art. Our dedication to creating outstanding media solutions shows in the work that we do. It shows in the applications that we build, the art we create, and the culture we foster.
We are comfortable at the cutting edge of our craft, always looking around the corner to see what is next. We are adepts at digital content creation, and business application development.
We believe that digital media should not only be stunning, but accessible and inviting. Intuitive is a concept we strive for, and it's what we build.
07/07/2008 09:00 AM
World Fridge Returns
The World Fridge multi-user poetry magnet game is new and improved. Check it out!
07/07/2008 09:00 AM
Chris Harvey
Chris Harvey's portfolio site, our longest running project to date, is completed!
05/22/2008 09:00 AM
The Briefing Room
Thebriefing-room.com, a high end men's underwear + product site, is launched!
05/22/2008 09:00 AM
Monster Annual Report
Curious Minds and Galperin Design build the Monster.com annual report.
04/02/2008 09:00 AM
Xanadu on Broadway
Curious Minds creates a rollertastic new site for the surprise hit broadway musical, Xanadu.
11/16/2007 08:00 AM
Global Auction Network
Global Auction Network passes it's final beta tests, in DC and NY, with flying colors.
10/30/2007 09:00 AM
Farnsworth On Broadway
The Farnsworth Invention hits broadway, as does a site by Curious Minds.
05/30/2008 03:10 PM
ActionScript Custom Event Tutorial Part II
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This post refers to AS3 Custom Event Tutorial
K, so you’re now extending the event object, having all sorts of fun, bouncing events all up and down your object tree like the destructive monkey that you are. But the question remains: How are you going to capture the events that you are dispatching? The simple answer: [...]
05/29/2008 03:43 PM
Curious Minds video work on display in Vegas
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This is a shot of the video screen outside of the Palazzo Resort and Casino in Las Vegas. The hit broadway show Jersey Boys opened at the Palazzo in April for a permanent engagement. The video we created for the show features footage from the production, text animations and spotlight effects to catch viewer’s attention [...]
05/29/2008 02:36 PM
ActionScript Custom Event Tutorial
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Learning how to use events can be a tricky process for a new ActionScript developer, but once you get the hang of it, you’ll be surprised how powerful and versatile extending the event class can be. In this post I’m going to show how you can create, dispatch and listen for custom events. For [...]
05/14/2008 12:40 PM
Xanadu nominated for 4 Tonys, site by Curious Minds
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Xanadu, the surprise hit broadway musical, has just been nominated for 4 Tony Awards, including Best New Musical. It also recently won the Outer Critic’s Circle Award for Best New Musical. The website for Xanadu was recently redesigned and built by Curious Minds. This full-screen Flash site aims to recreate the fun and vibrant feel [...]
03/19/2008 09:21 PM
The Last Vista Box
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I’m so sorry PC. We’ve been through a lot together. But since they crammed that mess called Vista on your hard drive, things just haven’t been the same. Sure, I’ll still see you from time to time, I mean - I still love you in that sleek black Viao AR. But at work you’ve been [...]
02/22/2008 03:51 PM
Cflogin on a cluster.
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I spent this week configuring ColdFusion 8’s security framework to operate on a clustered server environment. One of our client is using two windows servers with CF8 enterprise edition running on them. They are in a clustered configuration, and using J2EE session variables.
One item that we found important to note is that develops need to [...]
01/29/2008 04:12 PM
Flash Remoting AS2 vs AS3
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One of the new things that was changed in Flash CS3/Actionscript3.0 was the way that flash remoting is handled. In AS2, You needed to create a pendingCall to your service’s method(s) and access them that way. In AS3, you make a direct call to the service’s method.
For details, and code examples on the changes, keep [...]
01/18/2008 10:21 AM
Flex Tab Navigator with Close Buttons
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We are working on an application over here that would benefit from having tabbed navigation. To my dismay the Tab Navigator component in Flex does not support this, so you really have to do a bit of lifting yourself. (Gawd! imaging having to actually create something! ). Sarcasm aside, a quick web search brought up [...]
01/08/2008 03:59 PM
AS3/PV3D Loading Data
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With actionscript3 comes alot of new changes. One of the most often used features of flash is importing/loading and dealing with external data. In actionscript2 you could use a movieClipLoader, or a simple load to achieve basically what you needed to do. With AS3, you have a little more control over the data that is [...]
12/29/2007 02:56 PM
Relational Deletes in MySql and Foreign Keys
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Managing relational tables in a database is a topic that all developer will eventually bump into. There are quite a few ways of managing relational data, and the best solution sometimes can be hard to find. As a developer you have to look at the scope of the application, the types of tools you have [...]
