A little while ago I had an extra computer who’d been put out to pasture. This machine, while great in its time, felt the inevitable constraints of Moore’s Law and was forced to be removed from even semi-serious use. So instead of taking old Betty out to the glue factory, I turned it into a custom music server which allows me to stream my music library from anywhere with an internet connection.
Slimserver is an open source music server which allows you to do this with very little fuss or configuration. Now I can stream music from natemiller.org in my neighborhood coffee shop or at...
One of the things that has always bugged me about developing full-flash websites, is the way that Flash sometimes makes it difficult to implement behavior that users rely upon for a good experience. Things like deeplinking, context menus, mouse-wheel scrolling, are all possible – but at a cost to developer time. One such issue which I found particular irritating was the fact that Flash websites set at 100% width and height suffer from visibility issues when the end user’s monitor or window is set at a smaller setting. The easy solution is to set your containing html element at a fixed...
Creating your own streaming music server
Posted by admin in Technology, Uncategorized on September 16, 2008 | No Comments
A little while ago I had an extra computer who’d been put out to pasture. This machine, while great in its time, felt the inevitable constraints of Moore’s Law and was forced to be removed from even semi-serious use. So instead of taking old Betty out to the glue factory, I turned it into a custom music server which allows me to stream my music library from anywhere with an internet connection.
Slimserver is an open source music server which allows you to do this with very little fuss or configuration. Now I can stream music from natemiller.org in my neighborhood coffee shop or at...Making Flash sites scroll vertically
Posted by admin in Technology, Uncategorized on September 10, 2008 | 1 Comment
One of the things that has always bugged me about developing full-flash websites, is the way that Flash sometimes makes it difficult to implement behavior that users rely upon for a good experience. Things like deeplinking, context menus, mouse-wheel scrolling, are all possible – but at a cost to developer time. One such issue which I found particular irritating was the fact that Flash websites set at 100% width and height suffer from visibility issues when the end user’s monitor or window is set at a smaller setting. The easy solution is to set your containing html element at a fixed...