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This link to the interview is blogged from several people. When I read the name “Mike Melanson” it sounded very common to me.
He is one of the guys behind FFMPEG an open source crossplatform video transcoding engine which I have used very often because it supports Flash Video. I knew his name because he answered a few of my question in the FFMEG mailinglist.
Now Mike Melanson is the lead engineer on Adobe’s Flash Player team.
Read the interview here and diggit here.
I am using Netvibes now for about 6 month and can’t imagine how it would be without.
Netvibes is a personalized homepage which can be customized with several contents like RSS Reader, watch ebay auctions, check your Gmail, integrated iCal, integrated del.ico.us, show flickr photos and so much more. For me it has become a kind of onlineoffice.
Now there is good news because Netvibes good an investor who gave them US $15 million.
Besides of this Web 2.0, AJAX hype discussion I think this kind of applications are damn usefull.
Microsoft has brought up a similiar site called live.com and there are of course many more clones. It is of course very attractive for any company to be THE default page for many internet users. My winner so far is Netvibes so have a look at it.
Nicolas Cannasse released a new version of haXe and now the announced Flash 9 support is integrated.
haXe is a new programming language which can be used on the serverside with an Apache module and on the client side as the output can be JavaScript/AJAX, Flash 6,7,8 and now also Flash 9. For more detailed information check the introduction.
A haXe tutorial for Flash 9 is already online.
haXe on digg.com
There is also SWHX to build crossplatform haXe desktop applications with e.g. Flash as the frontend. In one word haXe tries to solve all problems with one language. From my point of view it currently only lacks of a productive IDE to program haXe but this will only be a matter of time. Currently a project called HXDT, a plugin for Eclipse, has already been started but the last update was in December 2005 and Flashdevelop also provides a haXe-plugin.
Nicolas Cannasse released a new version of haXe and now the announced Flash 9 support is integrated.
haXe is a new programming language which can be used on the serverside with an Apache module and on the client side as the output can be JavaScript/AJAX, Flash 6,7,8 and now also Flash 9. For more detailed information check the introduction.
A haXe tutorial for Flash 9 is already online.
haXe on digg.com
There is also SWHX to build crossplatform haXe desktop applications with e.g. Flash as the frontend. In one word haXe tries to solve all problems with one language. From my point of view it currently only lacks of a productive IDE to program haXe but this will only be a matter of time. Currently a project called HXDT, a plugin for Eclipse, has already been started but the last update was in December 2005 and Flashdevelop also provides a haXe-plugin.
The new Flash Player pentration statistic is online.
Flash Player 8 is about 85% which is more than I expected. But I would have been curious how many of them already had the Flash Playere 8.5 or 9 which includes Flah Player 8. But hopefully this information will be available in the next update.
I am proud to announce that Zeroi is now open source and available on OSFlash.org.
Ralf Bokelberg did the coreengine programming and I added the ability to define a logconfig xml file to filter logs of classes or packages to a specified loglevel.
The main idea of Zeroi is to be able to use any logging system (like SOS, XRay, Luminic Box, …) in your MTASC project, without having to change the code of your app. In fact your code doesn’t even need to know about Zeroi. Inside your app you only use trace statements. The traces are forwarded to the logging system of your choice.
That’s what the name Zeroi is standing for: Zero Impact.
Check the wiki entry on OSFlash for further information.
In a short word when you use the code trace(”e this is an error”); this log is captured by your favorite logging tool like and marked as an error log.
The prefix “e” is interpreted as a loglevel which are d for DEBUG, i for INFO, w for WARNING, e for ERROR and t for TEMP which is supported by SOS, the logging tool of my choice.
Microsoft has released the beta of Windows Live Writer. Live Writer is an offline Tool to write blogposting and supports the popular blog platforms like Wordpress, Blogger, TypePad …
I am currently writing this entry with Live Writer to test it. At the startup I only entered the url of my blog and my credentials. The tool detected that I am using Wordpress and I could immidiatly start to write a new entry.
Now let’s try to add a picture:
This seems to work. But I only could select gif or jpg and no png.
The nice thing you see from the screenshot is that Live Writer shows me the style of my wordpress theme.
When you download and install Live Writer Microsoft wants you to install a lot of new stuff like a toolbar, desktop search and other stuff I think so read carefully and doublecheck which checkboxes are selected. Anyway I installed the Desktop Search. Let’s see how it compares to Google. In these days it’s hard to say who you like to trust more: MS or Google?
Ok that’s it. Now I try to “Publish to Weblog”.
This is edited online: all seems to work. Nice and usefull!
