Frink! is a mobile client for the web site Reddit. It is designed specifically to be used with tablets, taking advantage of gestures in a unique user interface. Right now the app is available in the BlackBerry App World:
How do the internal workings of a browser that was released only two years ago have an enormous ripple effect on the future of streaming media on the internet? Last week Google announced on their chromium blog that they're dropping support for the h.264 codec, in favor of the open source Ogg Theora and WebM/VP8 codecs. This is yet another snag in the messy attempt to unify the playback of video in HTML 5, as we now find the #2 and #3 most popular browsers lacking support for what currently is likely the most ubiquitous encoding format. So how did we get here?
Over this holiday break I had the interesting opportunity to write a bookmarklet for a friend who runs a comic based website. Instead of just manipulating the currently loaded page, the bookmarklet needed to send a list of images to another site. Often when writing bookmarklets, we tend to only think of loading our code in the context of a HTML content page. How often do you test your bookmarklets when the browser is viewing an image? In this article I am going to go through the code I used to bootstrap my bookmarklet script, and discuss some of the interesting challenges I experienced along the way.
To get started with this code, I used a fantastic article by Tommy Saylor of Smashing Magazine. It gave me a good start, but certainly left a lot of details out, and in my case, caused a lot of bugs.
Welcome to the first part in a multi-part series on building Adobe Flex projects using The Apache Ant Project.
So why would we want to use ant to build our flex projects? Flash Builder does a great job of building our actionscript and mxml. But it does not do a great job of integrating into our existing automated build frameworks. For those of us who have been writing Java in an enterprise environment, Ant is common knowledge. If you've spent any time working with the Microsoft .NET platform, you may have been exposed to NAnt or MSBuild The idea is that we need to have a reliable, repeatable build process that can execute outside of the context of our development environment. For my team, this means an independent build server (in my case, a virtual machine). An independent build server means nightly builds, and software that can run without the user at the keys.