“We continue to monitor developments on HTML5, but as of now it doesn’t yet meet all of our customers’ needs,” Wei said. “Our player doesn’t just simply stream video, it must also secure the content, handle reporting for our advertisers, render the video using a high performance codec to ensure premium visual quality, communicate back with the server to determine how long to buffer and what bitrate to stream, and dozens of other things that aren’t necessarily visible to the end user. Not all video sites have these needs, but for our business these are all important and often contractual requirements.”
The news does put a chill on the rumor that the company was working on a version of the site for devices that can run HTML5 video but not Adobe’s Flash.
(Link: Hulu improves its player, commits to Flash | Web Crawler – CNET News)
Hulu improves its player, commits to Flash | Web Crawler – CNET News
May 14, 2010
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School of One: The Pandora of Learning – GOOD Education – GOOD
May 14, 2010
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The School of One, which began as a pilot program last summer, offers essentially a menu of options for learning: Students can choose from a computer program that adapts to their abilities, choosing a “playlist” of appropriate lessons to help them build on previously learned concepts. Alternatively, they can opt for taking instruction in small groups from a live instructor. And, if neither of those options suit their learning styles, kids can also work with a virtual math tutor
(Link: School of One: The Pandora of Learning – GOOD Education – GOOD)
OS X TextMate user? free time tracker: matewatch
May 10, 2010
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So we rolled our own. matewatch simply checks what TextMate documents you’re editing and records the intervals of time that those documents are frontmost in TextMate.
(Link: OS X TextMate user? free time tracker: matewatch)
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off Being Played Out Live On Twitter And Foursquare. Awesome.
May 10, 2010
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An account, @ferris_bueller_, started tweeting yesterday afternoon, noting, “Ugh… school’s really getting me down. less than an hour to go.” Bueller apparently went home and was quiet on Twitter until about 7 hours ago when he tweeted, “Really don’t feel like going to school today… Think I have a plan” If you’ve seen the movie, you know what happens from here. If not, watch it now and starting following the account, the day is still ongoing — they’re at the baseball game right now.
(Link: Ferris Bueller’s Day Off Being Played Out Live On Twitter And Foursquare. Awesome.)
CSS Reloader is a browser extension to reload the CSS of any site without reloading the page
May 10, 2010
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CSS Reloader is a browser extension for Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome, that allows you to reload all the CSS/stylesheets of any site without you have to reload the page itself. The goal for this browser extension is to enable developers to become more productive.
(Link: CSS Reloader is a browser extension to reload the CSS of any site without reloading the page)
linkedin_on_rails – use the LinkedIn OAuth API to authenticate users and pull their profile data
May 10, 2010
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This is a simple Ruby on Rails application built to demonstrate how you can use the LinkedIn OAuth API to authenticate users and pull their profile data into your own website or mashup. Users can log in using LinkedIn OAuth and automatically create an enhanced resume generated using their own data and explore their connections.
(Link: linkedin_on_rails – use the LinkedIn OAuth API to authenticate users and pull their profile data)
Redcar is an open-source programmers' text editor for Ruby, written in Ruby. It is designed to be compatible with Textmate bundles
May 10, 2010
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Redcar is an open-source programmers’ text editor for Ruby, written in Ruby. It is designed to be compatible with Textmate bundles (a work in progress) and run cross-platform on JRuby. Redcar is currently in the middle of begin ported to JRuby, please subscribe to get updates on our progress.
(Link: Redcar is an open-source programmers’ text editor for Ruby, written in Ruby. It is designed to be compatible with Textmate bundles)
puppet-dashboard at master – GitHub
May 8, 2010
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The Puppet Dashboard is a Puppet web interface that provides node management and reporting tools. Nodes can be exported in YAML format, allowing the dashboard to be used as an external node classification tool.
(Link: puppet-dashboard at master – GitHub)
ongoing by Tim Bray · HTML5 and the Web
May 8, 2010
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Let’s Do Scenarios · What’s the best thing that could happen? Some widely-interoperable dialect of HTML5 becomes broadly usable quicker than expected, and we get decent tooling around it quicker than expected, and the nature of the devices evolves slowly enough so as not to outpace heavyweight browser technology. In this world, software user experience is on average better and development cost is on average lower. ¶
The worst thing that can happen? HTML5 is holed below the waterline by some combination of interpersonal toxicity and corporate land-grabs and intellectual-property litigation; doesn’t become a really appealing application platform for a few more years.
(Link: ongoing by Tim Bray · HTML5 and the Web)
Intridea Blog: SMS Fu – Quickly & Easily Send Text Messages
May 8, 2010
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Having had to develop apps that relied on the ability to send text messages to members, I thought that it would be a good idea to turn some of that functionality into a plugin that would be easy to use. SMS Fu gives you the ability to be able to send text messages from your Rails app in less than five minutes. There’s no third-party gateway needed, as the phone number is converted into an e-mail address, which makes it deliverable to any phone.
(Link: Intridea Blog: SMS Fu – Quickly & Easily Send Text Messages)
