Embedding complex SWF content in WordPress which loads or references other content can be bit tricky. Often the embedded SWF is hosted in different directory than the WordPress page that contains the embed code which means simple relative paths often fail. The reason for this is that SWF files, by default, assume the page in [...]
I’ll say it if no one else will–the video tag in HTML 5 looks to be a bad joke. Leave it to a standards body to turn back the clock and give us the same garbage that nearly killed Web video in the first place.
From Mike Chambers’ blog post on the topic:
Can anybody honestly come [...]
I’ve been slowly learning custom AS3 Flex component development and finally had the desire to add CSS styling into the mix. Here’s a terse, but graphical tutorial on the simplest implementation I could come up with.
Review Flex CSS basics.
Styles cascade just as they do in the browser. There are 3 different ways you can set [...]
Apparently for a cool $300 million you can get a bunch of avid Mac users to attempt to convince themselves that Microsoft is cool enough for them to give up their Apple. Article just emphasizes the perception problem MS has. It’s 6 pages, but the first page and a half and the last couple of [...]
There’s a great interview with Mitch Grasso, CEO of SlideRocket, over at InsideRIA.
Mitch mentions one of the things that differentiates SlideRocket is presentation analytics . This is actually one example of the tectonic shift content creation software is undergoing. Content creation tools, desktop or otherwise, must leverage the cloud (push and pull). What makes [...]
Keith says something I feel very strongly about, but how do you get business types to get out of the feature arms race? Lot’s of business folks still feel like its the bullet points that win product comparisons and sell upgrades, but do they help you create passionate users who love your products?
I’m not [...]
Poached from TechCrunch comments (a rare gem). I must of had a mind-meld with this cat when I was reading this leaked internal memo.
Microsoft’s biggest problem these days isn’t technology, it’s ecosystem, or corporate strategy. Instead it has something far worse — a perception problem. There’s a ton of historical evidence — monkey boy, M$ (a slur used by geeks to describe corporate greed), Apple’s Mac vs PC (it wouldn’t be effective if the perception didn’t already exist), [...]
Seth Godin meet Aral Balkan and welcome to Singularity.
Now that I’ve done my best as matchmaker I ask only one thing — please don’t take SXSW away from me. I mean, my god do I need nerd talk followed by long therapy sessions on 6th Street.
…oh, and lest I forget — Aral you’re a bastard [...]
I spend a lot of time ‘trawling’ the web, often just getting swept up by the tide and coasting from information island to information island. Yep its a time sink, has a hugely negative impact on how much sleep I get and isn’t terribly efficient. The operant conditioning of link surfing keeps me going long [...]