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Sourcebits Secures $10 Million Investment from Sequoia and IDG

Brad Hilderbrand — Wed, 11 May 2011 09:33:45 +0000

Today, just a couple weeks removed from our 5th birthday celebration, Sourcebits is proud to announce that we have received a venture capital investment of $5 million each from Sequoia Capital and IDG. This marks Sourcebits' first ever large-scale investment from outside firms, ...

Getting Into WebGL

adit — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 09:21:50 +0000

The interwebs is currently buzzing with WebGL! Hence, we also decided to get our feet wet with it. Unless you’ve been living in a cave, you must have heard a few things about WebGL. However, I would still like to begin with a brief introduction about WebGL.

A brief introduction to WebGL

As Wikipedia says, “WebGL is a ...

Bookmark-worthy Sites for Coders

adit — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 04:25:13 +0000

Coding is fun! But if you’re reading this article then you already know that. As passionate coders, we’re always on the lookout for handy tips and tools to give our productivity a goose; today we’ll take a look at a few websites that do just that.

AF Striper – Navy Quiz Web Portal

staff — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 13:21:48 +0000

AF Striper Web portal is developed by Sourcebits. This portal helps Air Force personnel prepare for promotions by taking online quizzes, studying flashcards, etc. The Web portal is developed using object oriented PHP Zend Framework, MySQL Database, HTML and CSS.

MyScanner – Scanner for your iPhone

staff — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 13:10:59 +0000

MyScanner is an unique iPhone application developed by Sourcebits for Certifiable Solutions. This app lets you take photos of your documents and then allows you to crop, color optimization and ultimately let you convert them into high resolution PDF documents for saving or emailing.

Adobe Air Application GeeMail v1.0 Released

staff — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 10:48:03 +0000

We are proud to announce the next version of Geemail application, that is now completely recoded from scratch. The new feature list includes + Brand New User Interface Design: Dare we say its better then Gmail itself? + Localization supprt for Dutch, French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish and Japanese + Search bug fixed + Login problem fixed for googlemail.com ...

Night Stand for Blackberry Storm

staff — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 06:03:20 +0000

The most popular digital clock application,"Night Stand" is now available on Blackberry Storm. The application is available for download in Blackberry App World and is priced at $2.99 USD.

SK8 Dice – iPhone Sports Application

staff — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 10:55:14 +0000

SK8 Dice is an iPhone sports application developed by Sourcebits using Unity 3D framework. The application lets you determine a trick by rolling four dices in 3D. The insturctions are simple, roll the dice and do the trick on your skates.

Seperation of Web

staff — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 20:42:24 +0000

Itâ€™s cool that mark-up based web is going to receive two humble gifts from great thinkers of web standards. Not to mention one is HTML-5 (Web Application 1.0) and other is XHTML 2.0. XHTML 2 is effort towards making web more robust, so web can be utilized at its extreme. XHTML ...

Creating Objects from JSON – without using eval()

staff — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 20:34:03 +0000

Ever wanted to create a JavaScript object from JSON, but was afraid to do so cos you might execute a potentially dangerous code? Fear not, for the Code Ninja from Bangalore has come to your rescue!

This function will taken in a JSON string and return you a valid JavaScript object – without using ...

ActionScript 3 Tips – part I

staff — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 20:31:52 +0000

This will be an updated post on ActionScript 3 tips.

1. How do I remove all the children from a DisplayObject (MovieClip etc)?

while (my_mc.numChildren) { my_mc.removeChildAt(0);
}

2. How do I instantiate a class dynamicall?

import flash.utils.getDefinitionByName;

var cs:String = ‘Part_’+i;
var DynamicClass:Class = flash.utils.getDefinitionByName(cs) as Class;
var tc:* = new DynamicClass();

3. How do I create a mirror ...