Posted by: Joe Devietti on: April 17, 2009
One of the cool things I learned about Powerpoint the other day is that it’s possible to create interactions between an embedded Flash movie and the presentation itself. This allows you to coordinate animations across the movie and the slide, e.g. to have a mouse click sometimes advance the slide and sometimes trigger some action [...]
Posted by: Joe Devietti on: April 11, 2009
Editor’s Note: This whole rigmarole is unnecessary now that you can boot from EBS-backed AMIs that can have essentially unbounded size. But this trick was fun while it lasted! I love Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud, and have been using it to run research experiments without having to worry about multiplexing computing resources among other members [...]
