Thanks to my wonderful wife, I have joined the legions of iPhone users. This means that I can blog from anywhere! For example, I’m blogging from my iPhone right now as I’m sitting here… at my desk, in front of my computer. Okay, bad example. But this sure is a fun toy! And with projects out there like PhoneGap, there will very likely be a lot less free time in my future!
New and improved! Albatross Home Media Streaming Server 0.5.1 is released! New features include:
TyStreamer is now the Albatross Home Media Streaming Server! The new release has many, many new features and improvements including:
Good news from our scientist friends over in France and Switzerland. The Large Hadron Collider went online today, and our planet did not get sucked into a black hole! Yay!!! Unfortunately, this also means that I still have to attend my mid-year review at work. Ah, well. C’est la vie!
Sure, you love the full-bodied debugging environment that comes with Firebug 1.2, but when you’re on the move, jumping from browser to browser, you just can’t get weighed down by being tied to Firefox all day. When I’m surfing Safari, live at the Opera, or kickin’ with IE, I debug with Firebug Lite, now with more debug! Read the rest of this entry »
The TyStreamer page has moved from its old home on wiskars.com to the main Still Designing web site! This by itself is not necessarily “blog-worthy” as the content hasn’t changed much… yet. But some of you may have noticed that the VideoLAN team has just release VLC version 0.9.0-test1. TyStreamer now requires version 0.9.0 for its ability to stream flash video, allowing you to use 98% of all web browser installations to watch video on your TiVo or home computer anywhere on the internet. There hasn’t been a new release of TyStreamer in a while largely because VLC 0.9.0 has been a bit of a moving target. Now that we’re starting to see some slightly more stable releases from VLC, TyStreamer can likewise start showing its stuff. Some of the cool new features you can look forward to over previous versions:
Big things are happening in the browser world these days. We haven’t seen this much action in browser development since the Netscape 4 / IE4 browser wars of the dot.com bubble, and back then it was only two browsers! Today, we have (arguably) no less than 4 major browsers, each with increasingly good levels of standards compliance. Even Internet Explorer’s latest offering looks to be reasonably standards compliant, and may finally remove that painful thorn called “Internet Explorer Compatibility” from our collective sides. Let’s take a look at what’s coming down the pike: Read the rest of this entry »
We all know just how much “fun” it can be to test for all the different versions of Internet Explorer. Multiple-IE kind of works, but the best solution so far is still using Virtual Machines. Developer Jean-Fabrice Rabaute, the author of DebugBar for IE, has developed a new solution which allows you to compare web sites in different versions of IE side by side. The software is still in alpha, so there are still some issues. Most notably, Flash does not work under IE6; that can be something of a show-stopper for most of our sites. IE6 may still be the anchor that drags our cool applications down into the abyss of compatibility nightmares, but when this tool is ready for prime-time it could really help make IE testing slightly less painful.
link: http://www.my-debugbar.com/wiki/IETester/HomePage
Original Ajaxian article: http://ajaxian.com/archives/testing-ie-versions-just-got-a-little-easier
Hello. My name is David, and I’m a FireBug addict.
Hi, David!
It all started innocently enough. I was introduced to FireBug about a year and a half ago. ”Hey, try this Firefox plugin. It’ll make your web development experience incredible! And the download is free!” Being a modern-day developer, I was willing to try new things. I can always uninstall it later; I’m in control. Or so I thought. Read the rest of this entry »
After a very short-lived jQuery 1.2.4 (it was up for less than a day before being marked as a “bad build“), jQuery 1.2.5 has been released into the wild! It contains the usual flurry of patches, optimizations and fixes which are all spelled out in the Release Notes.
Of course, what you really want to know is whether or not this release is compatible with the $.string plugin, and the answer is yes! (Really, I’m sure that’s what was on your mind.)