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Monthly Archives: January 2009

Anita er syg

Siden torsdag har haft feber – høj feber! Jeg har noteret løbende hvad den var:

Tors. 16:00 39,67˚
Tors. 20:15 39,86˚
Fred. 02:34 40,19˚
Fred. 10:26 39,16˚

Det er godt at se at den falder – men hun er selvfølgelig pyldret og kræver megen opmærksomhed, så jeg er hjemme fra arbejdet idag fredag. Vi ved ikke rigtig hvad der foresager feberen og hun har også noget ved hendes øjne, så vi går til læge i eftermiddag.

Torsdag havde jeg ondt i halsen, var varm og havde hovedpine – men nu er jeg klar! Det er heldigt så jeg kan passe Anita og Lui for hun er også “nede”. Lui har “den månedelige” og det gør at hun mister blod, og i forvejen har vi en idé om at hun lider af for lavt blodtryk og måske blodmangel. Hun bliver svimmel og har andre tegn på blodmangel.

Puha! Det er lidt hårdt når en hel familie går ned på samme tid! God bedring til os :-)

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What is extra, what is basic on a website?

It’s always a challange when building a new to find the ballance between what the customer (says he) needs and what the experts (read: people like me working and thinking on the internet) thinks he needs. It can be seen as two oppersites, but I think that it is actually not the case.

The “small” things makes up the difference
When you shop in real life you may have tried to shop in a shopping house where things are handled in a personal manner: You get service, guidence, choices and small things like the way the products are wrapped makes a difference. You feel like you are a person which the shop actually takes serious and handles as an important customer.

On the other hand discount shops focus on one thing only: The price. Somehow it has been become a constant, if you want good prices you must accept poor service, no-personal handling of customer and other things. Perhaps you could draw a line to the way fast food works..?

When it comes to websites sometimes rules like the ones above also seems to apply. I think that it is my risponsebility to be serious about (at least) my part of the development of a website. I should ensure that the content on a website is upto date when it comes to webstandards – from over /CSS to things like and microformats. Here however sometimes is a problem:  People tend to think that implementing things like microformats will add more time to the production time. I do not agree!

The methodes which we as web-developers use should simply be build upon tools ensuring that things like publishing is not something extra – it should be standard. Like in the shopping house which offers a high level of quality,  I would prefer quality instead of discount. It should all be part of the identity of any webdeveloper! Or any company working with the internet.

Tools like in its basic form support all such quality assuring technologies! So thank you for making me smile: Serious web publishing tools long live! :-)

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Embedding video on a website – help!!! It started off good at "gotoandlearn.com – Free video tutorials by Lee Brimelow on the Flash Platform"

I simply want to on my !!!
Okay  I maybe naive – though I would prefer to say “hopefull”. Goto-and-learn should be the right site for me as I rather desperat seek a simple free cross browser pattern to follow in my search for video embedded on a website!

Time:
14:57  I enter the site.. A related site
14:59  I try the video tutorial: “ActionScript 3 Video Basics”.. Oh dear, there goes the “free” part of my goal: Speaker: “..have flash CS3 open”, “…there is ofcause the The flv playback component…”, hmm… I will skip this tutorial (15:04) and google for “flv playback component”

15:10  Hmm… No hits, I will try to go for a NON-adobe (read: flash) soloution… But still it should be free and cross browser..

Sliverlight?
Perhaps Silverlight? Hmm… Is that a good idea? or will people visiting my site with embedded silverlight simply drop-out as they probertly not have silverlight installed? I am afraid so.. So for now I will not use silverlight…

15:17 Close to giving up… Ah, I try my network on MSN… Asking a friend… away… Try another…  away… This is really a sunday blues :-(   3rd person… away… Wow! Someone was alive, he knew a friend who knows about how to embed video for free… Otherwise he says that JAVA applets could be a path… I mention silverlight… He says that sliverlight hits around 0.1% of the users and suggests SVG. I note that SVG is primarely Firefox. He says that for the next couple of year flash will probertly be the answer to video on web. He promises to talk to his friend the next day, but this has become a challange for me – so I will continue the search!
He ends with suggesting that I look at “javafx” – wooomm off I am to a new Google search on that!

15:32 Google search for “javafx”… Oh dear, the three letters “JavaFX SDK is available now” scares my (= a heavy path). (15:34) The first friend appears, I ask him the same question: “Embed video cross browser without it involving non-free software! Any experience?“. Wating for his reply I try to read about javaFX. (15:42) Hmm… Well, I used to use Java some years back, and I admit it is a serious piece of tool – but, it is not 1-2-3 for me, so I will drop the “JavaFX” path…

15:44 I hold on to the Java Applet path, perhaps I can find a “free Applet video player” – here is what Google search returned: “YouTube Video Applet” was the first hit, but oh dear: “Buy it for $5 – or – Try it for FREE!”… God! I hate that definition of “free”: Free for a limited period! Seriously – that is obuse of the word “Free”… I try one of the other hits: “Inline MPEG – 1 – player in JAVA“, that sounds basic! And it was… I do not have a way to create MPEG 1. My digital video file is is WMV – so I guess I sould make that a part of the search!

15:50 Search for “embed wmv cross browser free”… I am desperate and think that I will perhaps have to choose to dump the cross browser part of my mission… I try a website saying: “Embedding a Windows movie (.wmv) in a page“. Oh dear, even before I start to read the … I look to the right in my Windows Live Writer which I use for writing this .. Here is what I see:

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Even if you do not understand danish I think that you understand my drift: My live writer says that it will allow me to embed a video clip!!! :-) I will try it now! (16:00) Oh dear, oh dear – it will not let me point to a file, and if I point to an URL it will not allow just any URL. Only special video sites are allowed, and no need to mention: Microsoft Soapbox is one of them.. :-(

16:03 Okay! I will NOT give up! I go back to the “embedding a windows movie…” mentioned above… 16:06 working 16:10 Done! Well the final soloution was to use a method which I have previously used on the site! It is almost the same as on the “embed…” site, but, well better! :-)

Conclusion after 1 hour and 15 minutes
Not everything is easy to locate and solve simply by googling the net. If you go for mainstream soloutions you probertly will find it, but if you have special needs, like not wanting to invest $$ in for instance Adobe Flash CSxxx then you are probertly on your own!

I am however not without hope for the future! Free, easy and flexible embeding of video will appear in near future as the net is driven by users – and even Google cannot make everybody use the YouTube path to embed video on the net. Things like Silverlight, Java Applets and other future technologies will offer such tools, should Adobe FLV and Google get to be too big on the net, that I am in no doubt about!

And finally – my code
It would be a shame not to show you the actual code which solved the task for me. First of all you can see the running video here. And the code is here:

<objectd id=”MediaPlayer” width=”320″ height=”240″ classid=”CLSID:22D6F312-B0F6-11D0-94AB-0080C74C7E95″ standby=”Indlæser video, vent venligst…” type=”application/x-oleobject”> <param name=”FileName” value=”video/spildVin.wmv”> <param name=”ShowControls” value=”false”> <param name=”ShowStatusBar” value=”false”> <param name=”ShowDisplay” value=”false”> <param name=”autostart” value=”true”> <param name=”playcount” value=”9999″> <embed type=”application/x-mplayer2″ src=”video/spildVin.wmv” mce_src=”video/spildVin.wmv” playcount=”9999″ name=”MediaPlayer” width=”320″ height=”240″ showcontrols=”0″ showstatusbar=”0″ showdisplay=”0″ autostart=”1″> </embed> </object>

The sites I came across (usefull or not for me!)

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Snippet: eval window

Here is a very usefull which you can put in a link in your () browser. It opens a new window from where you can execute javascript in the context of the parent window. Very usefull! Here is the code:

javascript:void(eval("var s = '<script type=\"text/javascript\">function doEval(s) { opener.eval(s); }</script>';s+='<textarea rows=10 cols=80 id=source></textarea><br /><input type=button value=Eval onclick=\"doEval(source.value)\" />';window.w = window.open('','','width=700,height=210');window['w'].document.write(s);window['w'].document.title='Debug window'"))

To add this snippet to your browser follow these steps:

  1. Copy the code above to the clipboard
  2. Add this page to your bookmarks – in the link area.
  3. Edit the bookmark, replacing the URL with the copied code on the clipboard
  4. Save, while accepting any warnings about protocol

Using it is simple. When you are on a you simply – press the link just created, and you get a new window in which you may execute javascript. The script will run in the context of the original window so you may explore the DOM and any other relevant information.

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Weblogging directly from your browser

Weblogging directly from your browser

fhmHytex – Velkommen

Okay, we are really getting there! Can it be easier? With a few settings put correct I now has the option to directly to my BLOG simply by pressing the “Blog it” button in Internet Explorer 7.0! Nice, really nice!

Before the content will be on my blog, I get the chance to write extra information and enrich it. Below is a test – this has been submittet directly from internet explorer…

 - In case you wonder where the and the link to “Hytex” is from – it is the site of a friend of mine.

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A painting on the white wall..

A painting on the white wall..

In my appartment the walls are all white – nice, gives a lot of light! But for at long time now we have been looking for something to hang over our couch in the living room. Today we got it! It is a very sweet and nicely coloured painting by the Danish painter Birgitte Leich. I love her style – what do you think? Have a look at her image gallery.
Oh, and my daughter also likes it :-)

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Looking back at my work

At the time I started workingh on the net TABLE tag was not an option – in it self was very exsotic! :-) Since then I have been involved in many very exciting projects! It fits my creative mind to solve challenges on the net and since I know about many things from to backend and soloution solving in generel – I am like a fish in the water when I work on the net! :-)

 Yes It makes me smile! :-) For instance when I look at one of the things I have done in my past: The 25th anniversery of EDB Gruppen back in 2002. Take a look for yourself – It is in Danish, but it is very creative though: EDB Gruppens 25 års jubilæum

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