I have really liked using textile for my post formatting as it provides easy to read and write code while also publishing very clean HTML. I have had problems with it when I mix HTML and Textile code as I do often on my web log. Textile's main alternative is similar language called Markdown. I have started working with it this morning and so far so good. First, I downloaded the markdown plugin for wordpress.
I’ve seen references to it often, but have never really understood what it was. Besides learning that it is pronounced Lay-Tech (the x is the greek “chi”), this post explained it use and benefits better than anything else that I have seen. technorati tags:LaTeX
Google Code Search Now supports ColdFusion (tags: google coldfusion) Digital Web Magazine - CSS Styling for Print and Other Media (tags: css print) 3 Trumpets Mobile Web Breakthrough with X-Series A new mobile service being offered in a few spots around the world with phones that have skype, sling, google, yahoo, msn and orb -- all payed with a flat rate for "reasonable" access. (tags: x-series yahoo skype google sling orb) Welcome to Room211!
I've been working today on building a new LPS WWW box that will use ColdFusion as it's primary scripting language since the NetCloak that we have used for around 10 years has been discontinued. Here are some quick notes of things that I have either learned or been reminded of today. ColdFusion MX7 and lower do not work with Java 1.5 http://www.talkingtree.com/blog/index.cfm/2006/5/17/CFMX-MacOSX-JVM142 Getting ColdFusion to process html files is not hard, but was tricky to find
One of the greatest things about CSS is the ability to create styles for non-screen delivery. Digital-Web features has a new article called “CSS Styling for Print and Other Media”.
Google’s code search allows visitors to search publicly accessible code for answers. It now includes ColdFusion. technorati tags:coldfusion, google
Adobe has launched a new design center on their web site specifically for Fireworks. If you are looking to get the most out of Fireworks, this will be the place to stay tuned to. There’s already some neat articles up there including one on how to “Create a night scene with Fireworks” and “Creating lens flares using Fireworks”. Interested in participating in the Fireworks 9 beta? You can sign up for that also.
Here’s just a couple of videos that show the Wii through its unboxing and demonstrate the gameplay on it with an upcoming game: Farcry Vengeance.
Number 17 in Line Originally uploaded by cynomyso. It was handy this year that the playstation 3 and wii launches sandwiched my birthday on the 18th. I've really had my eye on the Wii since its announcement though. Even without the $600 pricetag that the PS3 is sporting, I've just resigned myself to the fact that I don't spend enough time playing video games anymore to enjoy the games that really need that power.
More religion in politics (tags: HSLuthBlogs)
I started visiting Brightcove a couple of years ago when Jeremy Allaire (creator of ColdFusion) mentioned it at the 2004 Macromedia MAX Conference in New Orleans. It took a long time before it became publicly available, and even then it seemed to be geared towards professional media producers and not something available to the masses. I'm not sure when things changed, but recent visits have excited me as it became clear that Brightcove would make it very possible for non-professional media producers to get their content online in a way that was easy and looked great.
Microsoft Zune software review with screencast (tags: zune) Kuler A new application on Adobe labs that allows users registered with Adobe to view, review and submit color schemes via a sharp-looking rich internet application (flex?). 10 best extensions for Firefox 2 | CNET News.com CNET lists their 10 favorite add-ons for Firefox 2. (tags: firefox) HERE I STAND: Meeting Jesus (tags: hsluthblogs)
If you tried visiting my blog yesterday, you may have seen a short-lived experiment as I considered moving my blog from Wordpress to Blogger. My only real reason for trying Blogger is that I've really become pretty fond of Google's other tools and figured that I might as well do everything that I can in one place. I discovered quickly that Blogger is no Wordpress. Today, Ted Patrick of Adobe found his blog's feeds broken as in Google's upgrades of Blogger, they disabled all RSS and RDF feed publishing and moved everybody completely to Atom.
Adobe put out the first non-beta release of the Flash 9 player with full-screen video this week. Brightcove is already utilizing it. Try it out here… technorati tags:flash, brightcove, adobe
Ryan Stewart uses Google Trends to compare Rich Internet Application technologies and shows that Adobe Flex is ranking best compared to other environments like OpenLaszlo. I ran his query then added AJAX and they were blown out of the water - basically flatlined at the bottom of the graph. technorati tags:flex, apollo, ajax, openlaszlo
Panera Wishes You A Cup Half Full Originally uploaded by cynomyso. Half Full? I realize this comes from the "Cup Half Empty" saying, but by itself it sure doesn't sound like much of a toast. "Here's to a tolerable life..." Maybe they are trying to save some money by encouraging half-full cups of coffee...
Leopard 9A303 Screenshots and Features Apple Announces iPod Airplane Integration [Updated] Core 2 Duo MacBook Also Supporting 802.11n?
New beta for Mac today offers many new features and improvements. technorati tags:skype, mac
OpenStreetMap Project to create a publicly-available, open-source map (tags: map gps)
I've always been a map/navigation freak, so it's no surprise to me that I have found this geocaching quite addictive. I enjoy the creativeness of the quests. I like how each of the caches that I have found so far have introduced me to a place that I would probably have not otherwise visited. I'm also pretty stunned by how big the community around this is. Here's a couple things that I have learned in my short time doing this