A Million WordPress 2.0 Wednesday 2006-08-23
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Podz, well known WordPress guru, wrote in Mars, 100000, “That’s a big number !”
WordPress 2.0 download counter has now passed a million - that’s one more of zeros.
Congratulations! The counter now shows a blinking instead of that big number. Maybe the counter register can’t take such a big number - like the millennium bug mistake - or the Adriane II elevation control disaster 
A Flash Browser On the Horizon? Monday 2006-08-21
Is the next browser generation based on on a Flash platform. This article by Matthew David at InformIT, may lead you to think so.
Here is a slightly modified version of his “Lorem Ipsum” demo case for presenting HTML or rather any XML content markup, styled by CSS. Both the XML and CSS are external files, brought together by a short Actionscript in the Flash movie. Both can easily be changed, wihtout touching the SWF. Read the article and draw your own conclusions!
Tags Saturday 2006-08-12
Here are the tagging results produced by Lorelles Technorati tags bookmarklet, modified by Bavra Mann.
Technorati: tags, bookmarklet, blog
Get it, install it and tag along!
A Decade with Flash Friday 2006-08-11
Flash celebrates its ten year anniversary inside Adobe, its new owner.
Turned down by the same company at its infancy, when its name was FutureSplash, Adobe now has great plans for Flash. It is to become more than just a platform for animations on the web, an application for desktops and mobile devices alike, according to Flash product manager Mike Downey.
In my opinion, Macromedia did a great job over the last years to lay the foundation for these new adventures. Most importantly they made Flash a platform for animations and video delivery, so popular that more than 90% of the browsers carries the Flash plugin.
They changed their obscure scripting language to a really powerful programming language with the introduction and development of Actionscript, an ECMA standard language, which make it possible to do some real programming on the Flash platform. After some strange behavior, mainly due to backward compatibility issues, they managed to turn Actionscript into a truly object oriented language.
Another important boast for Flash as a media platform came with Macromedia’s streaming video format, which makes it possible to serve video in either true streaming mode form a vido server or in what they call progressive download, where video can be streamed from an ordinary web server. If I cannot afford the rather expensive Video server, or I cannot run it with my service provider, I can settle for using just the web server. The user experience is almost the same in both cases.
All this builds a firm foundation for Flash as a media client on all kinds of devices. If you like to hear about the future of Flash from the horse’s mouth, CNet news.com has an interview with Mike Downey. Of course it is streaming video presented in your Flash player plugin.
Flickr Spinnr Now Stand Alone Thursday 2006-08-10
Headzoo and yours truly have released a new version of the Flickr Spinnr. The WordPress plugin has gotten a few bug fixes, to solve problems some users had. If you use a widget aware theme, you’ll be happy to know that the Spinnr is widgetized.
The real news is that the 0.4 version has a stand alone variant. This makes it possible for you, to include the rotating cube in any web site. The requirement is, of course, that you can run PHP on your server.
If you already installed the 0.3 version of the WP plugin, it doesn’t hurt to upgrade to 0.4.
Download it from Headzoo, unzip and upload to your server - simple as 1-2-3. Set options if you like.
Documentation is included in the distribution ( PDF ).
Have a look at the stand alone version here.
WordPress 2 and Counting Sunday 2006-08-06
Just a short note for the habitual WP blogger. You’re not alone, if that’s what you thought.
The download counter is approaching one miljon. Time for celebration!
WordCamp 2006 Saturday 2006-08-05
Being a bit Swedish, I’m proud to discover that the 2006 WordCamp is run at the Swedish American Hall in San Fransisco in cooperation with Café Du Nord. The Hall was designed Swedish architect August Nordin, father of lots of buildings in that besung city.
You may want the tentative architecture of the Camp, just to know what to ( possibly ) expect. The meaning of “tentative” can be easily smelled at Podz place. The AfterParty was to be held, or is still going on at the time of writing, at Pier 38. We may be hearing from that too, as some few of the participants will probably throw some pixels at Flickr.
Matt at the event, credit: Scott Beale Laughing Squid. It’s a one day show, so I’m a bit late here - sorry about that.
Now, will the version 2.1 of the best blogging software on the planet be annonced at this WordCamp? The “What’s New in 2.1” feature list from Ryan Boren suggests something, don’t you think?
The near future will provide evidence from Matt and or Ryan, I’m sure. Just you wait and see, and may the blog be with you!
( Not to mention your plugins
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