Thoughts, ideas, tips, musings, and pontifications (not necessarily in that order) by Ben Forta ...
NOTE: This is my personal blog, and the opinions and statements voiced here are my own.
Posted At : 4:02 PM
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At the request of a reader, I created an OpenOffice Base version of the example database used in my Sams Teach Yourself SQL in 10 Minutes. The file can be downloaded from the book page.
To use this, you'll obviously need OpenOffice. And as it turns out, Base is actually a really nice database to experiment with, as it features a built-in screen that lets you simply enter and execute SQL. So, once you have OpenOffice installed, here's what you need to do:
Open the book database with OpenOffice Base
Select the Query tab on the left
Click the "Create Query in SQL View" task to display the Query Design screen
Type your SQL in the window
Click the Run Query button (it has an image of a green check mark on top of 2 documents) to execute your SQL, you can also just press F5 to run
Your results will be shown above your SQL code (unless you generate an error)
Thank you Roy (no last name provided) for the inspiration.
While HTML5's video support enables us to bring most of the content and features of YouTube to computers and other devices that don't support Flash Player, it does not yet meet all of our needs. Today, Adobe Flash provides the best platform for YouTube's video distribution requirements, which is why our primary video player is built with it.
Posted At : 5:26 PM
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Fellow Adobe Platform Evangelist Lee Brimelow will be a guest on CNET Live's Android Atlas Weekly on Tuesday June 29th at 2:00pm Pacific / 5:00pm Eastern. You can submit your own questions for Lee in the comments on this Ask Adobe Your Mobile Flash Questions post.
Jean-Baptiste Queru is a lead on Google's Android Open Source Project where he drives releasing Google's contributions to the open source world and importing public contributions into Google's releases. He has a guest post on the Android Developers Blog entitled The Froyo Code Drop. This is a great read, and provides insight into the details and complexities involved in a project like Android.
Posted At : 9:53 AM
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I don't really like ColdFusion .NET comparisons. A better comparison would be ColdFusion to ASP.NET, or ColdFusion + Java to .NET. But, having said that, ColdFusion developer Jose Diaz works for a company that migrated from ColdFusion to .NET (yep, I know, not overly smart). And Jose, having been exposed to the simplicity of ColdFusion before being forced to do things the hard way, created cfdot.net to compare code for common tasks.
In addition to a binary installer, Adobe AIR 2 is also available as .rpm and .deb installer packages on Linux. Adobe engineering lead Ashutosh Sharma explains the steps needed to install (and update) AIR 2 on Linux via repositories.
Note: This post currently relates to 32bit only. 64bit is a work in progress.
The highly successful Adobe Flash Platform Summit is heading to Bangalore, India, August 25th and 26th. I plan to attend again, along with several of my fellow evangelism team members. This will be a two day event featuring over 40 sessions, and we expect an attendance of over 2000! Registration is now open, and I hope to see you there!
I know that the World Cup is not that big a deal here in the U.S., but for the rest of the planet it's huge! ESPN3 is streaming World Cup games, viewable using Flash, all served by Flash Media Server.
Jens Loeffler has posted some technical and feature details.
Laptop Magazine has published its list of 25 Most Innovating Products Of 2010. And #16 on the list is Flash Player 10.1 noted as being "a major leap forward".
InfoWorld's Neil McAllister comments on Apple's HTML5 drive, and the Web standards community's displeasure with the effort blasted as being "not intellectually honest".
Posted At : 11:35 PM
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With the final releases of Flash Player 10.1 and AIR 2 just around the corner, we're hosting a series of free webinars introducing the new multi-screen development capabilities of the Flash Platform. Details and registration link online.
Videos from last month's Flash Platform Summit in China have been posted online. The opening keynote and five sessions have been posted, and the plan is to post all additional sessions over the next few weeks.
If I were to leave my house unlocked, I'd not expect people to enter without permission, even though they probably could do so. But if I were having a conversation, perhaps a meeting using a microphone so that everyone could hear, and I left my windows open so that passersby could hear every word, well, I'd have to expect that and be OK with it. No?
Google is in all sorts of trouble over Wi-Fi sniffing by its Street View cars. And lawyers now argue that the data was not collected accidentally as previously claimed, but that the cars were deliberately programmed to collect the data.
And many are comparing this to the unlocked house example, so evil and sinister, big bad Google silently creeping into your private property to steal from you. The thing is, that analogy is flat out inaccurate. My microphone broadcasting info up and down the street is a far more technically accurate analogy. And yes, if you yell outdoors, clearly and free for all to hear, well, then you can't complain if sometime writes it all down.
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