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I’ve finally posted something I’ve been meaning to do for quite a while, a quick PHP tutorial for Processing programmers. This probably should have been a chapter in Learning Processing, but hey, if it had made it in, then I wouldn’t be able to just put it online for free.
Tutorial: http://www.learningprocessing.com/tutorials/php/
There’s an example [...]

Big Screens Round Two

Big Screens Class @ IAC, Session 2 from shiffman on Vimeo.

Just a quick note to let you know that my book, Learning Processing, is now available for purchase. If you are local to NYC, you can buy the book at the NYU bookstore.
Amazon says “out of stock”, but I’m told by the publisher that this is an error and they do, in fact, [...]

I’m pleased to announce that my new programming with Processing book will be released this August (by the end of the month). You can pre-order the book from Amazon, download a sample chapter from the web site, and, yes, even become a fan of the book on facebook (since that’s what all the [...]

Just wanted to give a quick plug to ITP student Sinan Ascioglu’s new site: www.openprocessing.org — a community “flickr-like” site for Processing sketches. It’s terrific work and I’m hoping students in my courses will find it helpful for organizing portfolios of their work. I’m hoping to be able to help Sinan by figuring [...]

The ITP Show finished up with some nice write-ups on the internets: ny times blog and MAKE.
About a week or so before the ITP show, my Big Screens class had their own show at the IAC Building on their rather large video wall. I’m hoping we set the world record for largest Processing sketch [...]

ITP Big Screens Testing Round 2 from shiffman on Vimeo.
Project credits: http:itp.nyu.edu/bigscreens/

ITP Big Screens @ IAC from shiffman on Vimeo.
My class went to test their projects on the IAC video wall this week. The works in this video are by Young Cho, Hye Ki Min, and Ji-Sun Lee. The pieces in the photos below are by Daniel Liss and Lucia Jeesun Lee. All 15 [...]

How to connect to Processing from a phone call:
http://www.shiffman.net/p5/asterisk

Calling Processing again from shiffman on Vimeo.
Going to write this up and publish the code (in conjunction with my Big Screens course) in the next couple days.