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March 28, 2007
A Major Brightcove.com Update
Now you can tell the world what you think about the latest TMZ video on brightcove.com. (If you admit to watching TMZ videos, of course). As of early this morning, Brightcove entered the world of spam and "first post!" with a commenting system on video pages. I already see a lot of amusing comments (and user thumbnails) on the site.
A lot of other changes were included in the update to brightcove.com, including a major performance increase, more ways to browse for new content, a fix for view counts, and a list of the newest videos. Sorry, but no Aftermix yet.
Posted by Brian at 8:37 AMMarch 27, 2007
The Flex.org Beta
I got an email from a friend telling me about the flex.org beta. As I can't keep up with the Flex category on MXNA anymore, I must have missed the news that this was out there. I haven't seen much discussion on this, so perhaps it isn't widely known.
It's a lot better than the old flex.org, which I think we've all grown to ignore. It's simple and looks like a much better place to point newcomers to Flex.
March 19, 2007
How Has HTML in Flex Worked For You?
With the release of a little, barely-written-about project called Apollo, I've been looking at a lot of HTML in Flash. Last week I also read about the release of a different iframe solution to HTML in Flex, and I continue to get comments and questions on my site about my port of Christophe's iframe solution.
All of the above has gotten me thinking about HTML in Flex and how it works for everyone. The comments I've read on my site have brought up a lot of problems and idiosyncrasies. I wonder if people have solved the problems they write about, given up, or just live with a bit of strangeness. I've tried to answer what I can in the comments, but I haven't been able to answer a lot, and I'm hoping that others can share their experiences.
So how has HTML in Flex worked for you? Do you start from the code found on this site, another site, or something you came up with yourself? What are the hair-pulling bugs that you solved (or you see as unsolvable)?
March 12, 2007
Brightcove is Now Twittering
You can get video diversions here.
Posted by Brian at 10:37 AMMarch 7, 2007
New Spanish Blog and 360Flex News
There's a new blog in Spanish from someone working with me on Aftermix, Oscar Cortes. I can't read it, but I'm still sure it's very insightful!
Ryan Stewart was making fun of me yesterday for putting real Flex news in a Twitter, so here it is in a blog post Ryan. :) At the Flex Q&A yesterday, it was noted that the player team is working on full bi-directional support. There was also talk of cross-domain module support as well as having default cross-domain framework modules. And expect a lot of flex.org changes.
March 5, 2007
At 360Flex
I'm sitting in on David Zuckerman's session on Flex Builder, where he just announced refactoring and "find all usages" support in the next version of Flex Builder. That makes me very, very happy.
I don't think I'll be providing any more updates on this blog from 360Flex, but you can see my current doings on Twitter.
March 2, 2007
Random dog videos- dailydogvideo.com
After watching a bunch of cat videos at a meeting today (don't ask), I figured it was time to create a post about a little project I've helping with, http://www.dailydogvideo.com
It's simply one embedded dog video each day. I had the idea for the site after watching way too many pet videos on brightcove.com and other sites. It has only taken a few hours to set up, and my girlfriend Betsy is running with the site, selecting the videos and making sure everything goes smoothly.
The site features videos from any video site, although I nudge Betsy into selecting more of the Brightcove videos. You can subscribe through email or RSS, which is updated, you guessed it, once a day.
Update: The site has gone away, but my wife has a new site at petitemama.com
Posted by Brian at 6:00 PM
