I've finally created a quick SlideCast showing off the ability to embed video (which is recorded directly within the Slide Manager at SlideSix). It's embedded below. Make sure you expand the control pod by clicking the button in the bottom right corner so you can view the video. Then click play and enjoy.

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I didn't. I really wish there was some type of service (perhaps using a web application - anyone know how to build those?) where I could ask Adobe to email on each and every ColdFusion update. I definitely get that some hot fixes are not for everyone...

2500 downloads and counting! The Power of the Intar-Webz[tm] never ceases to amaze me. I remember way back in the Old Days, when freeware was only to be had by floppy disk or modem; back then, it was difficult to imagine a few dozen people, let alone thousands, using some random software you’d put out. [...]

This is basically just an official repost of the test build I posted earlier, with better support for non-Western character sets and multiple select in the feed list so you can delete a bunch of feeds at once; see the release notes for more detail. Snackr should automatically offer to download the update next time [...]

If you're on 64-bit Linux and you're using RewriteRule in Apache, you probably need this Culmulative Hot Fix for ColdFusion 8.0.1. I hit this during testing and it was a blocker for Broadchoice to move from 32-bit Linux to 64-bit Linux (bug 71362). There are also four other bug fixes in this hot fix so check out the Tech Note.

Anyone else running ColdFusion 8.0.1 in production on 64-bit Linux or are we the first company to do so (on our twelve-server cluster)?

Intel creates world’s first Wireless Technology Surfboard - allowing surfers at the Intel Goldcoast Oceanfest to surf the Net while waiting to catch a wave -

GTFO.

I'm not sure how in the world I didn't know there was a hot fix released this week, but I just spent a few good hours trying to figure out why CF wouldn't delete an image after I'd resized it. Apparently it is a known bug that has been fixed. Go get it. Do it...

I just finished reading an excellent article over at Kaourantin.net. Tinic wrote a brilliant article detailing what GPU processing in Flash Player 10 will mean to us. He obviously can explain it a lot better than I can as he is an engineer on the Flash Player team at Adobe.

Flash traditionally has [...]

Sagolla posted a photo:

Parking lot of Lindamar.

This guy gets it.

iPhoneDevCamp 2 is going to kick ass!

There have been some comments on other blogs about the new RTMFP protocol that is part of the Flash Player 10 beta and potential for how it will be used. Please keep in mind that while we have announced the features, we haven’t announced all of the details yet.

The new RTMFP protocol in Flash [...]

The just released Adobe® Flash® Player 10 beta version includes two new window modes (wmode) which control how the Flash Player pushes its graphics to the screen.Traditionally there have been 3 modes:normal: In this mode we are using plain bitmap drawing functions to get our rasterized images to the screen. On Windows that means using BitBlt to get the image to the screen on OSX we are using CopyBits or Quartz2D if the browser supports it.transparent: This mode tries to do alpha blending on top of the HTML page, i.e. whatever is below the SWF will show through. The alpha blending is usually fairly expensive CPU resource wise so it is advised not to use this mode in normal cases. In Internet Explorer this code path does actually not going through BitBlt, it is using a DirectDraw context provided by the browser into which we composite the SWF.opaque: Somewhat esoteric, but it is essentially like transparent, i.e. it is using DirectDraw in Internet Explorer. But instead of compositing the Flash Player just overwrites whatever is in the background. This mode behaves like normal on OSX and Linux.Now to the new modes:direct: This mode tries to use the fastest path to screen, or direct path if you will. In most cases it will ignore whatever the browser would want to do to have things like overlapping HTML menus or such work. A typical use case for this mode is video playback. On Windows this mode is using DirectDraw or Direct3D on Vista, on OSX and Linux we are using OpenGL. Fidelity should not be affected when you use this mode.gpu: This is fully fledged compositing (+some extras) using some functionality of the graphics card. Think of it being similar to what OSX and Vista do for their desktop managers, the content of windows (in flash language that means movie clips) is still rendered using software, but the result is composited using hardware. When possible we also scale video natively in the card. More and more parts of our software rasterizer might move to the GPU over the next few Flash Player versions, this is just a start. On Windows this mode uses Direct3D, on OSX and Linux we are using OpenGL.Now to the tricky part, things which will cause endless confusion if not explained:1. Just because the Flash Player is using the video card for rendering does not mean it will be faster. In the majority of cases your content will become slower.... Confused yet? Good, that means you have the same understanding what GPU support means that everyone else has.Content has to be specifically designed to work well with GPU functionality. The software rasterizer in the Flash Player can optimize a lot of cases the GPU cannot optimize, you as the designer will have to be aware of what a GPU does and adapt your content accordingly. I realize this statement is useless unless we can provide guidance, something we can hopefully achieve in the not to distant future.2. The hardware requirements for the GPU mode are stiff. You will need at least a DirectX 9 class card. We

The eLearning DevCon 2008 conference is coming up in Salt Lake City in July and there are several great pre-conference training planned from beginning Flash and Actionscripting to advanced Adobe Captivate. You will also find many sessions that cover different topics around Adobe Captivate. This event might be a good way to quickly get you up and running with the tools.

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I've been considering this one for a while, but because of Scotch on the Rocks, moving house and planning a wedding - well, Leanne has been planning and I'm just nodding in agreement - it's sort of slipped off the radar.

The plan quite simply ...

I recently posted an example of a “Live Help / Call Center” application built with Flex and BlazeDS. A number of you have asked me for the source code. So here it is…

Installation instructions

Install BlazeDS or LCDS.

Download the client-side of the application. The end-user application is mortgageapp.mxml, and the support representative application is callcenter.mxml.

Download and [...]

The release of RIALogger v1.5 for AIR 1.0 was not very stable and was in between a transition period. I originally thought I would get around to update it quicker. Well I finally updated to be more stable and better performance when viewing large amounts of data. A new UI update will [...]

A friend just sent me a question regarding YUI (Yahoo's Ajax library) and JSON. Apparently YUI wants a JSON format (for query data) that ColdFusion can't handle automatically. He assumed this meant he couldn't speak directly to a CFC. That isn't the ...

Following the announcement from Adobe of the open screen project, news comes from the Embedded Systems Expo that NEC is showing what like it might be an alternative to the Adobe's Flash Lite Player.

Its a little hard to make complete sense of the post from EETimes.com. But some interesting quotes from the short, slightly cryptic [...]

O'Reilly Media has released the print version of Flex 3 Cookbook: Code-Recipes, Tips, and Tricks for RIA Developers this week! Get your copy from Amazon. The authors, Josh Noble, Todd Anderson, and Abey George selected recipes from the live Adobe...

Fellow Adobe Evangelist Lee Brimelow has posted a video on how to get started with new Flash Player 10 functionality.

I’ve found a few streaming Chinese radio stations online, but most are hip hop / rap type music. There is nothing wrong with that, but ????????

I found one this morning that has a few mildly heavyish songs on it. It’s style is close to Alice 97.3 - if you’re close to the San Francisco [...]

Here is another feature from the “meant to fully support that a long time ago” department.

Summarized stats are now available for referrers, search terms, and clicks.

Many people find the new results to be longer and more enjoyable. Your experience may vary.

Oh, and a tip for the truly stats-obsessed: we don’t update the database more than [...]

February is the hardest month for me to spell, and also the shortest of the year, but it seemed like as good as any to start our wrap-ups back up with:

245,329 blogs were created.

432,478 new users joined.

1,920,593 file uploads.

2,814,893 posts and 996 thousand new pages.

4,961,330 comments.

3,813,432 logins.

540,799,534 pageviews on WordPress.com, and another 304,499,648 on self-hosted [...]

Stuff White People Like and I Can Has Cheezburger have been topping our Blogs of the Day charts for some time. Now the New York Times reports that both of those blogs have received book deals. “Stuff” apparently got a $300k advance. The books based on their blogs are due out this Fall. Congratulations to [...]

Today we’re pretty excited to launch a new dashboard design to everyone here on WordPress.com.

If you have a few minutes, try clicking around and exploring the new layout and features. It’ll be unfamiliar at first, but like riding a bike you’ll find yourself picking up new habits and cruising down the road in no time.

Those [...]

We’ve heard this search thing is going to be big some day.

Google or Yahoo are great for finding general stuff on the web at large, but sometimes you want to find real posts from real people, and blogs are great for that. There are blog search engines, but when you search for “kittens” you’re as [...]

Blog posts can be a total tease. You get to the end and you’re ready for more, but all that’s there is maybe some post navigation, and if you’re lucky a few comments. If your appetite was whetted by the awesome post you just read there’s no place for you to go, except maybe to [...]

Given the recent news that WordPress.com might be blocked in Brazil, we would like to share some information about the case and our response.

A Brazilian judge ordered that one blog hosted at WordPress.com should be blocked in Brazil. A local ISP association mentioned it would do so via IP address blocking, something that would compromise [...]

April absolutely flew, I have no idea where it went.

Here’s what you rascals did last month, with a few new and improved stats:

240,494 blogs were created.

281,729 new users joined.

2,533,704 file uploads. (Y’all use the new uploader a lot more.)

About 740 gigabytes of new files. (Estimated, better number next month.)

317 terabytes of content transferred from our [...]

Now you can customize how avatars show up on your blog, including some cool never-before available options:

You can find these options under Settings > Discussion.

Here’s what you can do:

Turn avatars on and off, which applies to their display on your blog.

Choose a rating, which right now only works for Gravatars but as we integrate WordPress.com [...]