Steven Ng

Just testing all features of the wordpress iPhone app. So far it’s a clean interface which males it easy to navigate. I’ll take a pic and see how nicely it integrates. However previewing a post the layout rendering was a little funky. Overall it seems to work well and is a convienent app for posting from the couch.

Update: the app crashed when trying to take a new photo and attach it. Gonna try again. Funky markup was due to some ads, photo worked second time around but I guess you can’t position the photo. Also be sure to hit DONE to finish up your post and SAVE to publish.

I recently had to work with Akamai Secure Flash Sreaming for on-demand videos and wanted to share some notes on how we got this to work.

You’ll need 2 zip files from Akamai:

1. Akamai Flash Media Kit
2. Akamai Secure Token Generator

Inside the Akmai Flash Media Kit you will have to open CS3SampleOnDemand.fla in Flash and edit the ActionScript. First declare a constant for the token:

CONNECTION_AUTH_PARAMS=”THEVALUEFROMYOURFLASHVARS_TOKEN”;

Then you will pass the autorization token to the Akamai object like this:

ak.authParams = CONNECTION_AUTH_PARAMS;

I also have a DLL with using the Type D Authentication from Akamai, please email me if you need it.

Sometimes some projects visually hide the SharePoint navigation links so I wanted to list some here because I can never remember them:

More to come…

It’s a small change, but I always forget how to do this so I’m blogging it! Locate the siteMapPath control in the Master Page and add a PathSeperator attribute shown in the example below:

<asp:SiteMapPath ID="siteMapPath" Runat="server" SiteMapProvider="CurrentNavSiteMapProviderNoEncode" RenderCurrentNodeAsLink="false" SkipLinkText="" NodeStyle-CssClass="ms-sitemapdirectional" PathSeparator=" / "/>

When the Lakers lost game 4 it hurt, I felt like someone punched me in the guy, kicked me in the balls and stole my wallet. But losing that game meant something bigger, it meant that every game from here on is an elimination game for the Lakers. I’m pretty nervous today and at this point will be happy if they make it to 7 games.

Even though I wish the aptera was available to check out. Well i’ve negotiated what I think is an okay lease but still trying see what the best deal is since we’re in a little recession and gas prices are rising.

Here’s what I’ve negotiated so far, has anyone gotten a better deal?

• 2008 G37: Premium, Sport, Nav
• 39mo, 15000 miles
• $900 due at signing
• $536 a month

In the last few years, cars are getting more horsepower, amazing styles and designs at reasonable prices. This makes it tougher for me to decide on what car I want, factor in cost, dealership headaches and proximity saturation (who else do I know that owns this ride) and it will take me forever to decide. But the longer I wait, the hot new cars will simmer a little down in price and of course a whole new fleet of hot cars will arrive.

Here’s my search criteria in order of importance:

• Luxury coupe
• Good tech package (touchscreen nav, bluetooth, ipod, high end sound system)
• Over 250 horsepower
• Under $45,000

Cars I have researched and are interested in (I know some of them may not fit the criteria):

• Audi A5
• Infiniti G37
• BMW 335 coupe
• Jaguar XF

Does anyone own any of these or know of any special pricing on these rides?

Everyone knows you can check traffic off of Google Maps built into your iPhone, but what if you don’t have 2 fingers available to pinch-out and see all the traffic conditions? My answer is the simple Traffic Checker (alpha) http://ragingminds.com/iphone/traffic which simply lists out traffic conditions within an area.

Just something I whipped up real quick for fun, I need to add some error handling and the ability to search by “city” and/or “state”. It’s using Yahoo Traffic Webservice and the ASP.NET 2.0 XmlDataSource. Please feel free to use it and provide some helpful feedback for the next version!

I just got Rock Band and it’s really fun to play, especially with a group of friends or online. I originally was hooked in Guitar Hero, however my new calling seems to be the drums! They’re definitely my favorite instrument to play over singing or the guitar. One thing I didn’t like about the drums was that I had to crank up the volume to offset the loud tapping noise they make. Luckily my buddy Devin told me about making some drum pads to dampen the sound, so we bought the equipment for around $30 and cut out some nice, colorful foam and felt pads that work really well! I can still whale on the drums and they’re not as loud so I don’t have to bother the neighbors with cranking up the volume.

Then Devin and I thought maybe other people playing Rock Band might want to upgrade with a set of these drum pads so we decided to sell them online for $25 and free shipping! If you want more info, check out Rock Band drum pads.

I’ve currently been working with some technologies like Sitecore, Akamai (actually I take that back, Akamai has decent tech resources) and Prospero which have great company sites but lack public online technical documentation and support. I’ve tried searching for groups and wikis which are unavailable or not very active. Unfortunately these technologies are not as popular as jQuery, Umbraco or even Ruby on Rails so i’m desperate to post about this on my blog in hopes to get more help and info for these technologies from others.

Please help! If you’re using Prospero or Sitecore, please share your experiences on development or integration at the following groups: ProsperoTechnologies and Sitecore - Yahoo group or setup a Tech Wiki?