Wow, time flies when you’re having fun! A lot has happened since I last made a blog post. I got laid off at my old job, but I found a much cooler job, and in record time! (Only out of work 2 months! Woot!!!) I now get to build sites for Atom.com, part of Viacom and MTV Networks. They even sent me to Comic-Con this year! We’re doing lots of cool stuff, and starting to plan even cooler stuff for the coming year, so it should be a whole lot of fun!
I probably would have found this site ages ago if Google-ing for “free fonts” actually brought up sites with free fonts instead of bait-and-switch poser sites. But thanks to a recent post on Ajaxian, I know have an excellent source for open source fonts to use in whatever project I want: Font Squirrel! I can embed it with sIFR or canvas-text, I can give them to everyone in my Thursday night typography circle, and I can create header images until the cows come home. No more looking over my shoulder wondering if that assassin from the all-powerful font maker lobby has finally tracked me down. (I think I lost him in Munich.)
Viva la open source!
It’s official! Apple took my $99, and now I can write applications and submit them to the iTunes App Store! I feel all warm and fuzzy inside. Time to start reading up on PhoneGap again. Appropiately, I am writing this post from my iPhone.
For those of you still anxiously awaiting a working version of Albatross, we are one big step close! The latest test builds of VLC 0.9.9 have fixed on-the-fly transcoding and streaming to Flash video format (.flv)! Okay, it’s almost fixed. They still haven’t fixed the problem where transcoding the audio to any sample rate other than the source file’s native sample rate causes the audio and video to speed up or slow down accordingly, but at least it’s working again! You can download them for Mac OS X here:
http://jones.videolan.org/~videolan/0.9.9-test/
I’ve only tested this on the Mac so far, but history tells me that it should work in other environments as well. Works with a stock installation of Albatross 0.5.1.
The new 2.7.1 release of WordPress was just too good to pass up. I had installed it on another clients site (soon to be launched), and just fell in love with the new interface. It’s very snazzy, I love the auto-updates, and the layout is fab! But there’s one thing that was still missing… themed login pages. Read the rest of this entry »
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 »
