Jing And FTP: A Complete Setup Guide And Template
Posted by brooks in Jing, Screencasting on Sep 26th, 2008 | 14 commentsAwhile 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 that end I’m adding a complete template of files for folks who have php on their server.
AIRhead: What Exactly Is ClipboardFormats.URL_FORMAT?
Posted by brooks in AIR on Sep 16th, 2008 | 6 commentsMaybe 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 shop so I’m pretty sure these people aren’t reading because of some cult of personality (read: do you really need my readership too Spolsky–come on).
AIRhead: OS Specific Accelerator Key Weirdness
Posted by brooks in AIR, Flex on Sep 15th, 2008 | 1 commentWarning 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 explicitly setting the keyEquivalentModifiers to COMMAND + SHIFT on OS X or CONTROL + SHIFT on Windows. Things were peachy on OS X, but not so great on Windows (XP is all I tested). On Windows the caps lock must be on (despite the lowercase key equivalent). So after dropping the f-bomb a handful of times, debating whether to gouge my own eyeballs out and tweeting my rage I seriously dug into the documentation looking for an answer.
AIR Screen Capture. Not So Fast.
Posted by brooks in AIR on Sep 11th, 2008 | 8 commentsAIR 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.
The Killer App Ubiquity Myth: The Olympic Bounce For Silverlight
Posted by brooks in RIA on Sep 10th, 2008 | 2 commentsNow that Microsoft has released the Silverlight Olympic data I hope we can put to rest the killer app equals instant ubiquity argument.
