matt hackmann - web developer - artist - nerd

It's been several years since I originally released MP Skin Studio (MPSS) for the GBAMPv2, so revisiting it is interesting. Any kind of original documentation that resided on Lik-sang where I oriinally released MPSS is now gone (thanks, Sony) so, I'm here to provide a real tutorial as there seems to be interest for the old skinner that I didn't realize still existed. So, here is the official MP Skin Studio tutorial, brought to you by dxprog. I'll go through the entire process making a real skin as I go.

Recently, while making some additions to the Music Page, I came across the need to get the location of a YouTube FLV. Unfortunately, most of my googling turned up outdated results that no longer work. Fortunately, unlike a certain other site, it's not impossible. Below is a quick explanation of what I got to work. I'll be assuming that you know how to get your hands on the video ID (the "v" parameter in the query string).

For the past month I've been tinkering with Flex and my little Linux server. One of the projects that grew out of this was a web media player with which I could listen to all my tunes wherever there happened to be some scraps of internet. This has been one of the coolest projects I've worked on in some time. It successfully blends nearly all of my programming skills: PHP/MySQL, Javascript, XML, Flex/Actionscript 3.0, and some C++. I'm going to write a series of tutorials walking through what I've done in hopes of bringing this coolness to the masses. I'm going to be fairly verbose covering subjects that any seasoned programmer can pretty much skip over. In the first installment I'm going to cover creating the database and getting song information from the MP3s.