Awhile back I wrote a post about using Jing’s FTP output and URL / embed templates to empower rich media blogging. Its a pretty good primer, but it apparently doesn’t go far enough–I’m still getting plenty of responses from people who just don’t grok how to setup Jing’s FTP output with their own site. To [...]
Maybe its just my contrarian nature resisting stack overflow, but I think I’m going to kick it old school for the time being and stick to posting my stupid programming questions and pathetic hacks on my own personal blog. After all I’ve got like 3 readers and I don’t work in some swank NYC development [...]
Warning Nerd Post–disregard if you’re not an AIRhead. I’ve been working on a little AIR app and had a helluva time trying to get a NativeMenuItem keyboard shortcut set up for “Save As” functionality. The thing is I wasn’t trying to do anything difficult. I was setting the keyboardEquivalent to lower case “s” and then [...]
AIR has all the makings to support the perfect lightweight, cross-platform screen capture application. After all, as the screencast immediately below shows, you can copy all the pixels on the display list that you want and save them to the file system or upload them to the interweb node of your liking.
Now that Microsoft has released the Silverlight Olympic data I hope we can put to rest the killer app equals instant ubiquity argument.
Holy mother of all video codecs, Batman! Microsoft announces Silverlight 3 will support h.264. It’s been a pretty good week for Microsoft on the hearts and minds front. First they role out Seinfeld as a pitchman (you had me at Shoe Circus Jerry). The ad was subtle, avoided the obvious Apple references, was utterly devoid [...]
Love the bold UI / workflow approach of Chrome. It also makes complete sense for Google to make a client service play as the gatekeeper to the world’s information, though I’m not without enormous reservations here (too much power and too much control if they ever become the dominant browser). I’m wondering how the web [...]
Steve Yegge lambasts business requirements as heaping piles of, well, shit. It’s an evocative rant with a few pearls and paradoxes. Definitely worth a read if you’ve got the time. If not, but you want a peek inside my notebook, here’s a jingstream of what I found interesting.
Somehow we’ve lost sight of the fact that we’re more alike than different. Our basic knowledge of self is core to our understanding of others. Humans wouldn’t be so adept socially if we were so inept at understanding others. It’s this very adeptness that’s allowed us to survive and thrive for eons. The puzzler is [...]
So far (one year later) I’m pretty non-plussed with Adobe Media Player. It reminds me too much of Real / WMP which means I must not be the target market, or I’m just old and cranky. The source of much of my irritation has been that it launches at startup and I don’t remember giving [...]