Some of you who follow my blog (which I apologize for how stale it has been) know that Tim Heuer and I worked on a Silverlight Video player which we posted on CodePlex.  Every once in while Tim clues me into people that might be using it and this one popped up today.  I thought [...]

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Yesterday I completed the first version of Closed Captioning support for the Silverlight 2 Video Player on CodePlex.  It definitely in an alpha phase, but with some polish it should be reliable and more usable.  Here is an image of how the captions are being displayed. In this first version I made a decision to [...]

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As part of the ongoing evolution of our Open Source Silverlight Video Player on CodePlex, I added the ability to asynchronously load a set of TimeLineMarkers from an XML document.  The goal was to allow users a choice between encoding there video with markers or defining those markers in an external xml file.  What I [...]

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Yesterday Tim Heuer made a great suggestion that we submit our collaboration on a  Silverlight 2 Video Player as Open Source to CodePlex. You can now find the latest source at http://www.codeplex.com/sl2videoplayer.  As we find any “undocumented features” or add new and exciting ehancments we will push these up to CodePlex.

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For those of you in hibernation for the last few years, Google is taking over the world, one free service after another.  This weekend I decided to break ties with Godaddy’s crappy email hosting (5 accounts, 1 GB storage, $20 year) and switch to Google Apps.   My reasons were quite simple, Free is Free and [...]

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In interactive application development we love our ability to track and analyze the behavior of our users. Through tools like Google analytics and Urchin, web sites can monitor and analyze where their users are going, and more importantly how those users are getting there. As our company delves deeper into creating applications for the Facebook [...]

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On November 14th @ the Tempe Center for the Arts Terralever hosted Phoenix’s first Facebook Developer’s Garage. The event was a great success.  I especially enjoyed the presentations by Chris Johnson  of Terralever and Dave Morin of Facebook. I encourage everyone to look at Chris slides on marketing a Facebook application. For those of you who might be interested [...]

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Maybe its just a temporary thing, but lately the Facebook server has had major issues with caching images.  If you are unaware, all images that are placed within a users profile page get scraped by Facebook and served up from their own internal servers.  If for some unforeseen reason there scraper fails your image gets replaced with [...]

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This past week Facebook added a new method on their REST server for sending news and mini feed stories. The method is “feed.publishTemplatizedAction” and the intent of this method is to replace the existing “feed.publishActionOfUser” with a method that is more “templatized”. Here is a sample we created which is a combination of static text [...]

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On November 14th @ the Tempe Center for the Arts Terralever will be hosting Phoenix’s inaugural Facebook Developer’s Garage. Anyone who is interested in diving deep into the Facebook Platform is welcome to join. The event is a forum to share ideas with local developers and listen to interesting presentations on the planning, development, implementation, [...]

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