Flash website - end of an era

Over 10 years ago I started a website ( www.fourier-series.com)in which I built interactive flash programs to teach various engineering concepts. I Initially designed these programs to personally understand DSP and then to pass along what I learned to others****. These topics were fourier series, discrete fourier series, fourier transforms filtering I/Q modulation and also some RF stuff most notably the smith chart.

I produced content aggressively for about three years (2008-2011). At the websites height I received about 2 emails per week and had about 3G of downloads per day. My site also produced great returns for web searches (typically #1,2 or 3) on the topics I covered. Many professors linked to my pages.. In about 2012 I got burned out on this but kept the content up. The site peaked in about 2013 or 2014 and then has had a slow decline in popularity and hits. I still get traffic , but it is way down. I get an occasional letter but it is very occasional.

At the end of this year most browsers will be disabling flash and I will be sun setting my website.

Was it worth it? I received No money for it ever. I learned a ton about the topics for myself and I got over one hundred letters thanking me for helping them understand various topics.

Life moves on.









***** I had always considered myself an RF/radio engineer. About 15 years ago I was really becoming uncomfortable because it was becoming clear that the future of radio was DSP and how could I call myself a radio engineer if I did not really know DSP. From there I embarked on the loooong journey to try to really understand the fundamentals of DSP.

 

[brian]

In message <a2022adc-18d0-4583-a7bc-ce2efc45c49e@googlegroups.com>,
blocher@columbus.rr.com writes

Over 10 years ago I started a website ( www.fourier-series.com)in which
I built interactive flash programs to teach various engineering
concepts. I Initially designed these programs to personally understand
DSP and then to pass along what I learned to others****. These topics
were fourier series, discrete fourier series, fourier transforms
filtering I/Q modulation and also some RF stuff most notably the smith
chart.

I produced content aggressively for about three years (2008-2011). At
the websites height I received about 2 emails per week and had about 3G
of downloads per day. My site also produced great returns for web
searches (typically #1,2 or 3) on the topics I covered. Many
professors linked to my pages. In about 2012 I got burned out on this
but kept the content up. The site peaked in about 2013 or 2014 and
then has had a slow decline in popularity and hits. I still get
traffic , but it is way down. I get an occasional letter but it is
very occasional.

At the end of this year most browsers will be disabling flash and I
will be sun setting my website.

Was it worth it? I received No money for it ever. I learned a ton
about the topics for myself and I got over one hundred letters thanking
me for helping them understand various topics.

Life moves on.









***** I had always considered myself an RF/radio engineer. About 15
years ago I was really becoming uncomfortable because it was becoming
clear that the future of radio was DSP and how could I call myself a
radio engineer if I did not really know DSP. From there I embarked on
the loooong journey to try to really understand the fundamentals of DSP.

Interesting site.

Brian
--
Brian Howie

 

[Stephen Cole]

<blocher@columbus.rr.com> wrote:

Over 10 years ago I started a website ( www.fourier-series.com)in which I
built interactive flash programs to teach various engineering concepts. I
Initially designed these programs to personally understand DSP and then
to pass along what I learned to others****. These topics were fourier
series, discrete fourier series, fourier transforms filtering I/Q
modulation and also some RF stuff most notably the smith chart.

I produced content aggressively for about three years (2008-2011). At
the websites height I received about 2 emails per week and had about 3G
of downloads per day. My site also produced great returns for web
searches (typically #1,2 or 3) on the topics I covered. Many professors
linked to my pages. In about 2012 I got burned out on this but kept the
content up. The site peaked in about 2013 or 2014 and then has had a
slow decline in popularity and hits. I still get traffic , but it is way
down. I get an occasional letter but it is very occasional.

At the end of this year most browsers will be disabling flash and I will
be sun setting my website.

Was it worth it? I received No money for it ever. I learned a ton about
the topics for myself and I got over one hundred letters thanking me for
helping them understand various topics.

Life moves on.









***** I had always considered myself an RF/radio engineer. About 15
years ago I was really becoming uncomfortable because it was becoming
clear that the future of radio was DSP and how could I call myself a
radio engineer if I did not really know DSP. From there I embarked on the
loooong journey to try to really understand the fundamentals of DSP.

Maybe get in touch with Jason Scott at Internet Archive (@textfiles on
Twitter) and see if he’d assist in preserving your work. I’m 100% positive
he would be interested, or at least would be able to point you at somebody
who is already running a project to preserve Flash content. Don’t let it
simply fade away!

--
M0TEY // STC
www.twitter.com/ukradioamateur

 

[Clifford Heath]

On 7/10/19 5:33 am, blocher@columbus.rr.com wrote:

> At the end of this year most browsers will be disabling flash and I
will be sun setting my website.> Life moves on.

Publish the source code, with a copyright requesting acknowledgment for
derived works. If your code is readable, someone will pick it up and
make modern versions (using SVG, etc). Who knows, I might even do some
myself. My impedance nomograph seems to have been widely appreciated
here, even though no-one *ever* has pressed the Donate button

<http://polyplex.org/electronics/nomograph/>

Clifford Heath.

 

On Monday, 7 October 2019 03:08:13 UTC+1, Clifford Heath wrote:

On 7/10/19 5:33 am, blocher@columbus.rr.com wrote:
Over 10 years ago I started a website ( www.fourier-series.com)in which I built interactive flash programs...[snip] > At the end of this year most browsers will be disabling flash and I
will be sun setting my website.> Life moves on.

Publish the source code, with a copyright requesting acknowledgment for
derived works. If your code is readable, someone will pick it up and
make modern versions (using SVG, etc). Who knows, I might even do some
myself. My impedance nomograph seems to have been widely appreciated
here, even though no-one *ever* has pressed the Donate button

http://polyplex.org/electronics/nomograph/

Clifford Heath.

If you permitted others to copy it with suitable attribution it could get spread widely.


NT

 

[Rick C]

On Sunday, October 6, 2019 at 2:34:00 PM UTC-4, blo...@columbus.rr.com wrote:

Over 10 years ago I started a website ( www.fourier-series.com)in which I built interactive flash programs to teach various engineering concepts. I Initially designed these programs to personally understand DSP and then to pass along what I learned to others****. These topics were fourier series, discrete fourier series, fourier transforms filtering I/Q modulation and also some RF stuff most notably the smith chart.

I produced content aggressively for about three years (2008-2011). At the websites height I received about 2 emails per week and had about 3G of downloads per day. My site also produced great returns for web searches (typically #1,2 or 3) on the topics I covered. Many professors linked to my pages. In about 2012 I got burned out on this but kept the content up. The site peaked in about 2013 or 2014 and then has had a slow decline in popularity and hits. I still get traffic , but it is way down. I get an occasional letter but it is very occasional.

At the end of this year most browsers will be disabling flash and I will be sun setting my website.

Was it worth it? I received No money for it ever. I learned a ton about the topics for myself and I got over one hundred letters thanking me for helping them understand various topics.

Life moves on.

Maybe I am showing my ignorance about Flash. The one thing I do know is that I've always hated it.

Why can't you do this in HTML5? Whatever tool you used for the Flash does that also support HTML5? If so, there is likely a mode to convert your code. Even if there isn't, it is likely there is a conversion program out there somewhere.

--

Rick C.

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[John Robertson]

On 2019/10/06 7:08 p.m., Clifford Heath wrote:

On 7/10/19 5:33 am, blocher@columbus.rr.com wrote:
Over 10 years ago I started a website ( www.fourier-series.com)in
which I built interactive flash programs...[snip] > At the end of this
year most browsers will be disabling flash and I
will be sun setting my website.> Life moves on.

Publish the source code, with a copyright requesting acknowledgment for
derived works. If your code is readable, someone will pick it up and
make modern versions (using SVG, etc). Who knows, I might even do some
myself. My impedance nomograph seems to have been widely appreciated
here, even though no-one *ever* has pressed the Donate button

http://polyplex.org/electronics/nomograph/

Clifford Heath.

For donations the only thing I found that worked at all was asking for a
wee bit of peanut brittle if the content helped. I did get a few bags
mailed from the US and Canada!

John :-#)#

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[Clifford Heath]

On 10/10/19 3:01 am, tabbypurr@gmail.com wrote:

On Monday, 7 October 2019 03:08:13 UTC+1, Clifford Heath wrote:
On 7/10/19 5:33 am, blocher@columbus.rr.com wrote:
Over 10 years ago I started a website ( www.fourier-series.com)in which I built interactive flash programs...[snip] > At the end of this year most browsers will be disabling flash and I
will be sun setting my website.> Life moves on.

Publish the source code, with a copyright requesting acknowledgment for
derived works. If your code is readable, someone will pick it up and
make modern versions (using SVG, etc). Who knows, I might even do some
myself. My impedance nomograph seems to have been widely appreciated
here, even though no-one *ever* has pressed the Donate button

http://polyplex.org/electronics/nomograph/

Clifford Heath.

If you permitted others to copy it with suitable attribution it could get spread widely.

If you're referring to my nomograph, they already do that. It's all in
one page that you can save and run from your local storage. Why would
someone want to host it again elsewhere?

It's a shame that the OP has not responded either to my post here or to
private email. I hate to see useful tools get lost like this.

Clifford Heath.

 

On Wednesday, October 9, 2019 at 8:17:04 PM UTC-4, Clifford Heath wrote:

On 10/10/19 3:01 am, tabbypurr@gmail.com wrote:
On Monday, 7 October 2019 03:08:13 UTC+1, Clifford Heath wrote:
On 7/10/19 5:33 am, blocher@columbus.rr.com wrote:
Over 10 years ago I started a website ( www.fourier-series.com)in which I built interactive flash programs...[snip] > At the end of this year most browsers will be disabling flash and I
will be sun setting my website.> Life moves on.

Publish the source code, with a copyright requesting acknowledgment for
derived works. If your code is readable, someone will pick it up and
make modern versions (using SVG, etc). Who knows, I might even do some
myself. My impedance nomograph seems to have been widely appreciated
here, even though no-one *ever* has pressed the Donate button

http://polyplex.org/electronics/nomograph/

Clifford Heath.

If you permitted others to copy it with suitable attribution it could get spread widely.

If you're referring to my nomograph, they already do that. It's all in
one page that you can save and run from your local storage. Why would
someone want to host it again elsewhere?

It's a shame that the OP has not responded either to my post here or to
private email. I hate to see useful tools get lost like this.

Clifford Heath.

I have been hesitating to respond because I am not sure what I want to do. I am not really adverse to making the code public. Someone may be able to use it. The way flash works is that you have a graphical environment with picture objects and then the actionscipt code is written around the object.. All the math is in the code, but it may be difficult to understand the code without the graphical canvas that is part of the "source code". I suppose you could figure it out if you were running the flash program and looking at the action script code.

 

On Wednesday, October 9, 2019 at 1:54:34 PM UTC-4, Rick C wrote:

On Sunday, October 6, 2019 at 2:34:00 PM UTC-4, blo...@columbus.rr.com wrote:
Over 10 years ago I started a website ( www.fourier-series.com)in which I built interactive flash programs to teach various engineering concepts. I Initially designed these programs to personally understand DSP and then to pass along what I learned to others****. These topics were fourier series, discrete fourier series, fourier transforms filtering I/Q modulation and also some RF stuff most notably the smith chart.

I produced content aggressively for about three years (2008-2011). At the websites height I received about 2 emails per week and had about 3G of downloads per day. My site also produced great returns for web searches (typically #1,2 or 3) on the topics I covered. Many professors linked to my pages. In about 2012 I got burned out on this but kept the content up. The site peaked in about 2013 or 2014 and then has had a slow decline in popularity and hits. I still get traffic , but it is way down. I get an occasional letter but it is very occasional.

At the end of this year most browsers will be disabling flash and I will be sun setting my website.

Was it worth it? I received No money for it ever. I learned a ton about the topics for myself and I got over one hundred letters thanking me for helping them understand various topics.

Life moves on.

Maybe I am showing my ignorance about Flash. The one thing I do know is that I've always hated it.

Why can't you do this in HTML5? Whatever tool you used for the Flash does that also support HTML5? If so, there is likely a mode to convert your code. Even if there isn't, it is likely there is a conversion program out there somewhere.

--

Rick C.

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I have not looked into converting this to HTML. I am not sure I have the interest to pursue it at this time. My understanding (through minimal reading on this) is that the conversion tools work best on annimations and flash content that is not very interactive. The more interactive the content is (My site is very interactive) then the harder it is to convert. Also, from what I have read, the actionscript code need to be manually converted to javascript. Flash wsa a wonderful tool for building interactive content. Unfortunately there were security holes built into the foundations of the program that could not be overcome.

 

My impedance nomograph seems to have been widely appreciated
here, even though no-one *ever* has pressed the Donate button

That was you ? Well maybe I will send a few bucks. Enough for a six pack or whatever. I actually have propagated it, as well as the file itself. Yup, I can use it if the internet is down, which is the perfect time, try to deign maybe... Not sure what though.