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Open Source Flash Creation Friday 2005-12-23

Flash is an interesting but proprietary format for animations, sound and video or multimedia in short. Macromedia ( aka Adobe 2005 ) charges a lot for very capable tools like Flash MX 2004. Not everyone can afford to use the MM tool set. However the structure of the Flash format (.swf ) was made public and anyone with enough skill and patience could write their own tools for generating Flash. The ubiquitous Flash player is free for download from Adobe.

This note contains some links to free software with the capacity to produce Flash without the MM price tag. It’s meant as a reminder to myself to have a look at this prospect.

Have a look at the Freshmeat tutorial “Video and Audio Streaming with Flash and Open Source Tools” for a discussion of various projects such as:
FFMPEG for creating content, MING a C library with a PHP module for creating Flash files and libflv for creating FLV files, the Flash file format for streaming video and sound.

ToDo

Välkommen till Händelser Thursday 2005-12-22

Jag har äntligen beslutat starta en svensktalande blog för att beskriva personliga, familjära och vänliga Öden och Äventyr, och hälsar dig välkommen till vad som må bli av detta!

De (sv)engelsktalande delarna blir kvar för tekniska ändamål och för att knyta kontakter utanför Svedala.

Live preview for comments Thursday 2005-12-08

I’ve just installed and activated a live preview for commenters comments by Jeff Minard and Iacovos Constantinou. Now, let’s see if it works.

What about images

Now, as I have installed the 2.0 RC-1, I’ll have to test this new feature for inserting images into the posts. In the Post Writing GUI it should be possible to insert an image easily.

Let’s see!

Well I’ll have to upload an images first. The upload didn’t work at first, the complaints being: Unable to create directory /home/petitpub/public_html/petitpub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads.

As I suspect that a new directory created by “the server” will have the owner of “nobody” I’ll start by creating it myself from my FTP client and test again. ( I woudn’t be able to delete nobody’s dir )

Well now it’s complaining that i cannot create uploads/2005 - retour. and then again /12 for December. Pah!
Beautiful Dance

Well after hand crafting the directory structure I finally got the image uploaded, but “the uploaded file could not be moved to $file (!!)
And - I cannot find it anywhere. Hmmm… After consulting Datakultur ( my ISP ) for the correct setting of access flags for the web server to write to the directory, the image was uploaded and I was able to drag it to the post.

( See also comments )

WordPress 2.0 RC-1 installed Wednesday 2005-12-07

It all worked like a breeze, including my themes and user and my permalinks.

  1. Unpacked the disribution locally.
  2. Copied the database connection strings from wp-config.php to wp-config-example.php and saved it as the new wp-config.php.
  3. Deleting everything from my blog except the themes and plugins I’ve added.
  4. Uploaded the new WordPress bunch to the server
  5. Reached for the /wp-admin/upgrade.php from my browser
  6. After getting an introductory error message I clicked the link Upgrade WordPress>>

That was it!

Time test Tuesday 2005-12-06

Test just to make sure my blog time is synchronized

Changed time Monday 2005-12-05

OK, so somethimg was wrong. It said to show GMT +2 and i changed that to read GMT + 1
Old posts dont change, hopefully this will be right

Try again Saturday 2005-12-03

Okey. So I’ll try again to post by email.
The wp-cron-mail succeds without hazzle, while wp-mail has given me some
error messes.
Here we go again.

Changed destination directory

Earlier I changed the WP directory from wordpress to blog.
Posting by email has lately resulted in error messages from MySQL
stating some SQL error.
I’ve now changed the upload directory in WP accordingly.

Anfang or Drop Caps

It might be nice to have the possibility to start a post with a Drop Cap or Anfang.
From Mandarin Design we have this tip ( view source if you like ).

For this one we want to force the first big letter to span about five lines. The font-size is adjusted to exactly 100 pixels while the line height is 70 pixels.
We tried a line-height of 80 but that leaves a little too much white space.

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