{"id":72,"date":"2006-04-30T10:38:54","date_gmt":"2006-04-30T17:38:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsfeed.fatorcaos.com.br\/wp\/?p=72"},"modified":"2006-09-13T12:34:23","modified_gmt":"2006-09-13T19:34:23","slug":"the-middlefingerpub-tell-your-boss-how-much-you-dont-like-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/labs.zeh.com.br\/blog\/?p=72","title":{"rendered":"The Middle Finger Pub: tell your boss how much you don’t like him"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"MiddleIs the morale of your office’s team down due to your boss’ inability to lead? Is he a dick when it comes to managing projects or being reasonable? When that happens, most employees just go to a bar where they can drink to their anger while they tell everybody – usually fellow employees – how much their boss sucks. But now you can make an anonymous video and send it to your boss – with complaints from all the team members, such as the programmer, the webdesigners and the account manager – by way of the Middle Finger Pub<\/a>, Gringo.nu’s<\/a> debut website.<\/p>\n

This Flash website was developed in around a month and, to me, it’s a fine example of something that we will see a lot more in the future in Flash 8 websites – special effects<\/em>. Sure, we’ve seen all kinds of crazy tricks done on Flash interfaces, but I believe that right now, due to the new Flash 8 features (specially BitmapData) we’re getting to a state where the question is not whether Flash<\/em> can do something or not, then use it on the entire navigation concept, but whether if the developer<\/em> can do it or not (or if he has the time to do it); it’s moving the limits further away from the boundaries of the tool features and more to the limits of the developer knowledge or time spent on visual gimmicks.<\/p>\n

In concept, the Middle Finger Pub is a simple website – select some videos, sort them out, preview them, and send them away. However, time has been invested in making some of the interface elements a bit better visually, be it with the pseudo-3d video selection cylinder, or with the animation of placing the video on the list that emulates OSX’s genie effect (which I hope doesn’t make Apple sue us<\/a> since it’s just a parody).<\/p>\n

In the end, the new features in Flash 8 do help a lot in current development – I must have used the BitmapData class for just about everything on that site – but it’s in creating new stuff on something that otherwise could be pretty plain (and still work well) that I think the term special effects<\/em> fits best; programmatical makeup of sorts, but one that can help on many visual-driven websites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Is the morale of your office’s team down due to your boss’ inability to lead? Is he a dick when it comes to managing projects or being reasonable? When that happens, most employees just go to a bar where they can drink to their anger while they tell everybody – usually fellow employees – how […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17,2,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.zeh.com.br\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.zeh.com.br\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.zeh.com.br\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.zeh.com.br\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.zeh.com.br\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/labs.zeh.com.br\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.zeh.com.br\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.zeh.com.br\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.zeh.com.br\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}