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I’ve recently starting committing changes made to jquery-flash to github. You can view the project page for it here.
I’ve also made a few updates, the most notable being; I moved the checking code to seperate functions called isie(), hasflash() and flashversion(). All of which can be used anywhere, with or without using $().flash(). I also [...]
About a week ago I discovered a unique new programming technology called node.js. It’s an event-driven javascript system running on Google’s V8 engine and is primarily focused on functioning as a web server. I hesitate to call it a web server however–it’s much more than that!
Alan Ellis, creator of OiNK, the most renowned Bit Torrent based music sharing site has been unanimously declared not guilty by the jury in his recent court appearance. This is a massive success for freedom and a huge blow to the corruption of the current music industry. It will be most interesting to see what the response is to this in the coming days.
I, among many, jumped on the Google Wave Dev Preview bandwagon. The video demonstrations they had were so nice and polished looking, but after getting the chance to try it first hand it’s polished sheen quickly faded–it was buggy to the point of being unusable and collaboration was so awkward. As a Wave expanded it [...]
If you downloaded v1.3 of jquery.flash I would recommend switching to this one. There has been no functionality changes, so it should just be drop-in. It fixes a minor bug I added when I switched to using indexOf() for iterating through attributes and parameters…apparently IE doesn’t support it. >.>
There’s nothing major to change in such a minimal library, but such a difference the little things can make! New in version 1.3 is;
I’ve used swfobject many times before in the past, but I just don’t like it. It works well, but in the modern web environment of performance-critical web apps and Javascript frameworks that give you elegant access to DOM elements it just feels clunky having to go back to the ‘old’ way of doing things…so I decided to make jquery.flash!
Why use it? Well for starters it minifies to just over 2 KB, rather than the 10 KB of swfobject! How about automatic plugin and version detection? How about complete cross-browser compatibility? If jquery.flash isn’t a perfect fit for your flash embedding needs then you are just asking for too much. 
I’ve migrated most of the more ‘tech’ posts from my other blog. I’ll be using this one for sharing technical insights and releasing awesome open source stuff.
First of all, I’m going to assume you already have httpd and php installed. If you don’t have them already you should install them now. I recommend Jason Litka’s Yum Repository.
This guide is written with bash comments, so the whole text block below can be copied and pasted into an install.sh file if you’d rather not go through step by step. I wouldn’t recommend it though, as something could always go wrong, and it would be rather challenging hunting down the problem in that massive wall of output lines!
So yesterday I came across a very basic loader for Tiled Maps (*.tmx) made with the Tiled Map Editor. It only supported the basics–Tileset loading and Layer rendering–so I took it upon myself to complete the loader by adding support for the rest of the features that were left out.