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flXHR [flĕkʹsər],(flex-er)
is a *client-based* cross-browser, XHR-compatible tool for cross-domain
client-to-server ‘AJAX’ communication. It utilizes an invisible
flXHR.swf instance that acts as sort of a client-side proxy for
requests, combined with a Javascript object/module wrapper that exposes
an identical interface to the native XMLHttpRequest (XHR) browser
object, with a few helpful additions and a couple of minor limitations.

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13. July 2008

Flash Textarea

FlashTA is a WYSIWYG replacement text area for HTML
forms. While there are various implementations done in javascript, most
of them don´t work in this/that browser/OS combo, and every time a
browser vendor makes a change, they need to update the editor so it
doesn´t break on every possible combination of browsers.

FlashTA tries to overcome that problem by using flash. It also tries to adhere stricty to the XHTML specification. No presentation code is generated (so say bye bye to your idea of selecting text color, font face, etc).

FlashTA features an easy integration and multiple browser support (Mozilla, MSIE, FireFox, Opera & Safari).

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Ever needed custom formatted sample / test data, like, bad? Well, that’s the idea of the Data Generator.
It’s a free, open source script written in JavaScript, PHP and MySQL that lets you quickly
generate large volumes of custom data in a variety of formats for use in testing software,
populating database….

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7. May 2008

Monthly update

As my weekly updates are hardly working out for me, I am switching to monthly updates from now on :) The switch to the new design is almost done, with only minor details missing. Will be adding some updates to the project pages in the coming weeks, as I have rewritten the project section to provide full wiki standards.

Working as a PHP / Javascript Programmer for a n new client, which includes the usage of my own PHP Framework.

I am also doing a lot of design lately. A really welcome change from all the programming in the past.

I have also been doing alot of backend coding for portalZINE TV. Updated my Jabber server and currently finishing work on a Realbasic plugin.

Cheers
Alexander

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Simon Willison gave a jQuery talk at XTech called Unobtrusive JavaScript with jQuery.

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Debug JavaScript, inspect CSS and the DOM, and view any errors –
Opera Dragonfly makes developing using Opera easier than ever, both on your computer and mobile phone.

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“The people behind ExtJS are funny. First they have changed their license to the LGPL, without understanding it in any way,
now they’ve changed it to the GPL without understanding it in any way.
They claim that server side code which creates HTML pages which contain
ExtJS must be GPL, wuahahaha.”

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portalZINE NMN | Development meets Creativity |

Codeplex is a new code sharing site from
Microsoft, aimed at programmers who are using tools available under its Shared
Source licenses.

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When you distribute your videos across different video distribution platforms, you try to keep up with all the comments or views your videos receive.

Not all platforms provide a nice Webservice / API, allowing to aggregate all of those statistics in one place. I do not understand why some services distribute the standard video information via RSS, but leave the views and comment count out of the equation.

In the past weeks I have been building a complete stats package for portalZINE TV, pulling in all required data.

Here is how I accessed each of the services. I added a plus for those that are prepared to share the stats data, a minus for those that made me work a bit more :)

  • + Blip.TV (XML via RSS)
  • – Mogulus (PHP / Curl)
  • + DailyMotion (XML / RSS / multiple pages)
  • + Youtube (XML / RSS or Youtube API)
  • + Vimeo (XML / Simple API)
  • + Metacafe (XML / RSS)
  • – Sevenload (PHP / Curl )
  • – MyVideo (XML / Rest API)
  • + Revver (XML / XML-RPC)
  • + MySpace (XML / Open Social API)
  • – Yahoo (PHP / RSS / Curl)
  • – Google (PHP / Curl )
  • – Viddler (PHP / Curl / multiple pages)
  • + Veoh  (XML / Rest Api)

I am currently optimizing the daily updates, so that not all calls are done at the same time. Some of the services will be deactivated, if nothing notable really happens there. In my case shows are in German, so not all services provide the right viewership. This current exercise really allows me to decide which services are important upload hubs.

Really hope that APIs are getting more common among those services.

Cheers
Alexander

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13. March 2008

Weekly Update

I have not written one of these for some time now. Its not that I  am
not working, but hardly have time to sit down and comment about it.

2008
has been really busy so far, with me also spending 4 days at CeBIT this
year. Really enjoyed the tech trip.  I have started working on a
fitness website, dealing with trainer schedules, trainee subscriptions,
training progress, motivation notification and a lot more. Really fun
project that will be following me until April.

Have
restructured a lot of stuff within my php framework, to finally comply
with current standards and make updates a bit easier.

I am also
working on internal stuff that will ease the work on the portalZINE TV
setup, as advertisers require extensive statistics and I need to pull
those from at least 6 different video platforms ;) Sadly every platform
uses different web services.

Will try to write more regularly about stuff in the coming weeks :)

Cheers
Alexander  

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