I dont get to play much with fun media, but this is good news for all of us. The new updated flash player is available on labs and includes support for the H.264 video codec that is used in both HD DVD and Blue-ray discs.
What does that mean for us? Well it means [...]
I got around to setting up Ruby on our new Centos 5 server today and ran into a snag. I ran:
yum install ruby
And went on to installing rubygems. However in installing rubygems I got an error that rdoc was not installed. Now I don’t remember ever having to install RDoc on my [...]
So I just saw this article over on Engadget called Universal and Rhapsody launch DRM-free partnership “test” and my first thought was “Why?”. They already had a distribution channel set up with Apple through iTunes.
Now I understand that there are lots of reasons that Universal might want to do this. The first among [...]
Yesterday I gave my second presentation at 360|Flex in Seattle. The talk gave a very broad overview of Ruby as a language and then went on to give a demo of what the Rails framework brings to the table. We then moved on to take a look at generating a rails application and [...]
Today I gave the first of my 2 presentations here at 360Flex. After lunch today I had the pleasure to deliver a presentation on Deep Linking your flex applications. When I originally submitted this topic, we were embarking on a project at work that would have made for great examples. But the project [...]
Last month when my boss wanted a new laptop we did lots of research and then he settled on an Apple MacBook. He was not ready to make the switch yet though, so we installed bootcamp and got Windows XP up and running. My boss spends a lot of time traveling and giving [...]
So as an Open source advocate and a ruby developer I feel like I get asked a lot how I feel about using Ruby to develop for the CLR.
There are 2 parts to developing applications for me. The first is that I must be able to run the application where I want to. [...]
If you have read my blog in the past you will know that I ran all Linux for a couple years before getting my mac. One of the reasons I got my mac was the tendency of Corporations to build software for it over *nix in general. I understand the reasoning for that [...]
Today is my daughter Ana’s eight month birthday. I can’t believe its been 8 months, but beyond that I can’t imagine my days without her. My wife is much better at the sentimental stuff than I am and as such keeps a monthly log on her growth as a baby and as a [...]
We are working on a little AIR application here at work. We are automating the clockin/out/break/lunch process and using a cute little AIR app to do it. But as building desktop applications is not as easy to deploy updates as a webpage, I wanted to make sure that before the first version went [...]
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