Culture and Tech Links
Google Video: The Most Famous Endorsement of Flash Technology Ever
The Blog post “Google Video on Your Website” strongly suggests that Google™ might put many streaming media hosting services out of business. This post does not bother to explain in words what can clearly be seen in the source code. To play a “free” video just drop in some Flash player markup and Google’s millions, upon millions invested in servers does the rest.
“A Final End to IE/Mac”
Goodbye. Less is more.
Spring .NET
This application framework looks like something Microsoft will imitate when popularity takes its course. I wish I had the time to ‘grow’ with this thing. There is also Spring for Java.
FACE: Faruk’s Animated CSS Enhancements
“Please note: Opera 8.x versions have a bug that causes the browser to crash on the onMouseOver event of FACE. This bug has been reported to Opera, but no solution has been found yet. Updates on this will be announced ASAP.”
FontLister
“FontLister is a fast font manager for all Windows versions (i.e. 95, 98, ME, NT4, 2000, XP and 2003). With this program you will never have troubles finding a font for a special task again. Now you can browse all your fonts collected on your CDs without first having to install them onto your system.”
Embedded Assembly Linker
“Wouldn’t it be nice if all the referenced assemblies could just be embedded inside the exe and referenced as needed?”
Lightbox JS
“Lightbox JS is a simple, unobtrusive script used to overlay images on the current page. It’s a snap to setup and works on all modern browsers.”
Disk Output Cache
“Please check out my latest project—an HTTP Module that implements Disk Output Cache for ASP.NET v2.0.”
“Add Links for Del.icio.us, Digg, and More to Blog Posts”
“To add a quick link on your blog to all of the popular traffic-boosting sites like Paul over at paulstamatiou.com does at the bottom of each of his posts, simply add the code below to your single entry PHP file, main PHP file, or both.”
The XML-RPC Saga
It turns out that WordPress (and any other decent Blog app) supports XML-RPC. XML-RPC is “Simple cross-platform distributed computing, based on the standards of the Internet,” according to xmlrpc.com. Back in 1998, Dave Winer was writing about this subject.
Nitro PDF Professional
“Nitro PDF Professional is built from the ground up as the perfect PDF product for business and enterprise, combining an extremely competitive price with a no-compromises feature set that includes creation, organization, editing, security, and more.”
“How to Ship Anything”
“The actual shipping turned out to be quite difficult. It was amazing how small ergonomic problems turn into huge headaches when you’re shipping thousands of orders to 60 different countries.”