I’ve released flvThing on the www.automagic-software.com web site. It seems to play every flv file I’ve thrown at it quite nicely 🙂 The flv files are played using the installed flash player which is hosted inside a WebView control. The application creates a tiny very stupid web server that serves up the flash files as well …
Category Archives: Web
Blog spam and other stuff
I finally got around to cleaning up the spam on this blog. Unfortunately it looks like I zapped a couple of legitimate comments in the process however 😉 I’ve been really busy of late working and looking after the monster baby (who just recently turned 1 year old). On the train to and from work I’ve been building …
Multiple ruby on rails applications under different folders served by Apache on Mac OS X
I’ve been doing quite a bit of development recently using Ruby on Rails under Mac OS X. Unfortunately it can be a little tricky to get rails apps deployed nicely under Apache. The machine I’m using is an aging G4 with very little RAM so running rails apps in CGI mode is very slow! Initially …
Blog APIs
It can be quite annoying when an application claims to support an API and actually doesn’t 🙁 I’ve been working on BlogThing off an on for about a week or so. Originally I used a bit of the metaWeblog API and a bit of the MovableType API. I’ve since standardized on metaWeblog and removed the references …
I’ve just added automatic image resizing to my blog client
It’s all very exciting 🙂 Here is an example of an auto-resized images I’ve also added code to automatically recognize URLs in the text and convert them to links. For example http://www.automagic-software.com/
Colourized entries
I went to all the trouble of adding code to allow for different fonts and colours and such. I tested it on my local machine against WordPress 1.5x and it all worked perfectly. Then I tried to make a post here where I’m running WordPress 2.0 and found that it stripped out all the lovely …