Recently we needed to screen capture an entire website. There are plenty of tools around to capture the entire contents of an individual webpage, but there is not an easy way to capture a complete website. Since we are working to expand the use of Selenium in our QA process anyway, it was an... more
By Ivan Todorov, co-founder and CEO, BLITZ The most exciting innovations at CES this year push the boundaries of connectivity in remarkable ways. Opportunities for more contextualization of content, personalization of experience and a greater ability to capture meaningful data, promise a quantum leap in ROI for marketers with expertise in experience design and analytics. New display... more
Recently BLITZ was asked about modifying an audio driven flash site we completed a few years ago. In that time, technology on the internet driving rich consumer experiences has shifted from a plugin based platform dominated by Adobe Flash to a reliance on the native capabilities of the browser. This is significant, as... more
On August 18, 2011, Sr. Director, Technology Noah Gedrich had the honor of delivering our agency’s values and philosophies on technology at the Ink + Chase Sessions, held at the Kyoto Grand Hotel in Downtown L.A. As part of their ongoing mission to help small businesses leverage technology, Inc. Magazine and Chase have... more
Innovation in gaming and technology gets us pretty fired up at BLITZ. And when a new interaction peripheral (and engagement model) is released, the first thought that comes to our minds is "let's see if we can hack it." In this case, Director of Technology Noah Gedrich and Software Developer Yosef Flomin can take their bows for linking the Xbox Kinect™ hardware to Adobe Flash via Node.js. Continue reading
This is just a quickie. I had spent some time creating a routing system in PHP for services. The goal was to bypass .htaccess or a vhost configuration file. Basically, I wanted to map endpoints (HTTP methods + paths) to PHP methods. My goal at the time was something similar to Sinatra and/or... more
I saw some pretty amazing demos at the Adobe Max Sneaks session last week. Among the most impressive were the (potentially) up and coming tooling to author HTML 5 content and animation. Every demo was impressive in its own right and, despite some very sluggish conference wireless, fairly bug-free too! Some of the demos... more
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