DeanLogic

Well, if you entered Dean Logic through the main site, then you saw my new addition of Dean T.V.

Last night I installed Flash MX 2004 Pro (that’s a mouth full). With the latest version of Flash, you get a few neat features, one of them is publishing streaming video. How is it done you ask? Well, you import your saved movie to a blank flash document. You then export the file as a FLV file. Then, you can use a template for streaming video to display the video. It’s that easy.

Well, not being one to let things be, I decided that the template wasn’t enough. I added a menubar that can read XML to create the menu items. Then after a few hours of banging my head on the PC screen I figured out how to get information from that menu bar. With those two things in place, I can dynamically create a list of movies and pass information like; movie title, description, and file name to the Flash movie. This alows me to change the movie list dynamically.

The next step is to make the movie a little more independent from the XML file. Before in flash I could easily pass a variable from the web page to flash. With ActionScript 2.0, it doesn’t seem to be as straight forward. So, as soon as I figure that out, I’ll be able to post different channels of Dean T.V. on different parts of my web site. Of course, I’ll have to actually start making more videos.

Firefox has changed the default functionality of the browser sidebar. Before in Mozilla, you could have tabs for different types of side bar content. Now, you can only have one sidebar type at a time. However, you can set a bookmarked page to open in your sidebar when clicked. This is how I am using the WordPress sidebar. It creates a small form version of the write form so you can surf the web and publish it. I particularly like this feature.

When WordPress upgraded to 1.5, they did some changes to the template layouts and apparently they added header tags that broke the sidebar function. I modified one of the pages and this is my test to see if I didn’t break a bunch of stuff.

Well, Word Press 1.5 is finally released. The first thing that I noticed is the improved layout of the admin area. Actually, the first thing I noticed was not getting an error about not being able to access the admin site because of reload issues or something. So, I can log in now and post. That’s good. I hope that after I post this, I don’t get a bunch of spam. I hope they fixed that too.

Another thing I noticed was the sidebar addition. Firefox has changed the way the side bar works and right now it doesn’t look like the WordPress sidebar is working. The great thing about the old sidebar was that I could have the screen to write a blog entry available all the time while my web browser was up. This was convienent because I couldn’t get the blog by e-mail function working. Well, maybe I should try to get it working.

I guess I also need to see if my wp-people hack still works and what I need to do to upgrade it for WP 1.5. Oh well, things are never done.