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How Google Won the Html5 Video Standards War
Posted on May 19th, 2010 No commentsToday google open sourced the vp8 video codec which they acquired when they purchased On2 Technologies which has triggered the largest splash i’ve seen in the internet world in a long time. Everyone knew they were going to do it and there was a buzz of speculation surrounding the rumors of what it would do for current standards war occuring in the web browser market. I, myself, stated some time ago that it could be game changer since it would provide the much needed ‘third party’ standard that was needed to prevent another standards fragmentation for web content.
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Remotely Managing WordPress with PHP
Posted on April 8th, 2010 1 commentWordpress is the ubiquitious platform these days although I hope to change this with the inevitable release of Silk CMS in the next month or so. In my line of work, I tend to have to install many, many copies of wordpress all over the place. Wordpress makes a great platform for deploying niche sets especially and comes with hundreds of plugins that make creating these sites dirt simple. Anyone who has managed niche sites can attest that it becomes quite unwieldy to manage hundreds of websites. It helps to standardize on a common infrastructure for all of them (ie, themes, plugins, etc) however each site needs to be slightly customized to a particular niche. Plugin settings need to be tweaked, headers changed, sublines updated, etc. Uploading wordpress to each host and manually unzipping it and re-uploading everything that is non-stock is one way to go about it but it’s tedious and time consuming. If you happen to host on a hosting service that offers fantastico your job is a little easier but not by much.
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Google lays down the gauntlet with ChromeOS
Posted on November 20th, 2009 No commentsWe all knew it was coming. There were rumors and flat out denials from Google so of course it had to be true. It was the logical path for them and anyone who paid attention to the types of software they’ve been releasing could clearly see the writing on the wall. Every time Google made an announcement or released something new, the was the immediate response… why? Every app, framework, website, tool, they have ever released is a piece of a puzzle that when assembled shows you Google’s over-arching strategy. You just have to step back a little bit to see
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ChromeOS, Operating Systems, Search, Tech, Web Browsers apple, chrome, google, microsoft, Operating Systems, webRelated Topics
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Microsoft wastes our time with Bing
Posted on September 15th, 2009 No commentsSo apparently during TechCrunch50 today Microsoft released the new beta of their visual search technology for bing into the wild today along side of Google’s fastflip offering. They dazzled the crowds with flashy whiz bang features comprising of moving pictures and animated transitions that represent search results and lists of interesting information. While watching the [...]
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Applications, Search, TechRelated Topics
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Tweet your blog post to multiple twitter accounts
Posted on September 10th, 2009 No commentsI use a plugin called Twitme to broadcast new roz blog posts to my twitter followers in the interest of getting a few extra readers amongst my peers. That’s been working great while posting to my personal twitter account which is only visible to my close circle but when I started my new @realmofzod twitter [...]
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Rendering True Type Fonts in WordPresss
Posted on July 11th, 2009 No commentsI created a new wordpress plugin that functions much like sifr. It automates swapping out web text with dynamically rendered images of text using true type fonts. Read more about it on the eroi fresh blog or check out the new page I added here on roz. Enjoy.
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Development, PHP, WordpressRelated Topics
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Implement a Rest API with the Zend Framework
Posted on May 6th, 2009 21 commentsEdit: Recent developments in the 1.9 version of the Zend Framework has caused much of this information to become obsolete. Please consider Zend_Rest_Server deprecated and use Zend_Rest_Controller instead. I will write an updated article once I have experimented with it. Thanks to the other developers who brought this to my attention. As a developer and [...]
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Applications, Development, PHP, Silk CMS, Site-Related, Uncategorized, Web Browsers, Zend Framework php, rest, web service, Zend FrameworkRelated Topics
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End of Life for Internet Explorer 6. Please.
Posted on April 13th, 2009 2 commentsSo Microsoft has decided to begin the push of IE8 to all the unsuspecting windows users through their automatic update service and once again has done us a marginal favor out of their own necessity for relevance. With IE6 now two generations antiquated, many of the developers in the community are finding fewer reasons to [...]
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The Demise of Firefox
Posted on March 20th, 2009 4 commentsI stumbled across this article today which in words manifested a gut feeling all of us web developers have been feeling for the last year. The sensational title: ‘Firefox may already be dead’, rings true if the systematic revolt against Internet Explorer is any lesson. To understand why Firefox may be on the death march, [...]
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