Clarkezone: James Clarke's WeblogClarkezone: James Clarke's WeblogStanford, Mesh, Blackjack II and other topics- June 22, 2008 It's been a while since I actually wrote something on here that wasn't a link to something else.&160; I've spent most of today clearing the decks for a trip to SFO to attend a course at the Digital Media Academy that Ben Wagonner is giving at Stanford.&160; In the process I've come to a couple of decisions that I thought might be worth sharing. To prepare for the trip I've had to sort out my mobile phone situation.&160; My Dash died a while ago and I've been using an old handset...http://www.clarkezone.net:80/default.aspx?id=ffb75384-5283-4cba-8c8b-e6efc8643589 Creating custom video galleries in Silverlight- June 21, 2008 Qixing Zheng&160; has posted a new article on creating custom video galleries and posting them on Silverlight Streaming: http:blogs.msdn.comcanuxarchive20080617mini-tutorial-creating-a-silverlight-video-gallery.aspx As I promised in one of my&160; earlier posts to do a tutorial on how to create a Silverlight Video Gallery, here is the mini-tutorial (about 10 mins). It has two parts: Use Expression Encoder 2 to create a standard Silverlight video gallery ...http://www.clarkezone.net:80/default.aspx?id=ad9df40d-4b94-477c-8964-f40082888216 Join the Expression Encoder customer panel- June 17, 2008 David, our fearless product manager, has just posted details about how you can join our customer advisory panel and thus give feedback to the Expression Encoder product team.&160; As David mentions we are hard at work on the next version(s) of the product and are very keen to get feedback on what users like don't like can't live without etc.&160; If you are a compressionist or a web video geek and are interested in participating, do take a look.http://www.clarkezone.net:80/default.aspx?id=b057672c-f8eb-40ce-8232-c7c81e9dccf2 SLS Publishing Plugin for Expression Encoder 2 is out- June 14, 2008 As I just posted over on the team blog.http://www.clarkezone.net:80/default.aspx?id=baa82f58-8f5e-485d-9b24-38b881e5a8dc Sudden departure of my appendix- June 2, 2008 Got back from Sun Mountain last weekend with reasonably bad stomach ache.&160; Slept OK and had a relaxed Memorial day.&160; That night, was awake most of the night with increased abdominal pain.&160; A trip to the doctor ensued first thing the next morning although both the doc and I were in a somewhat confused state when we parted and I set off to collect various prescriptions to "try". After a couple of hours back in bed it became clear that the the current strategy was not...http://www.clarkezone.net:80/default.aspx?id=ddf212fc-1d85-4ef3-aa86-6520286eaaef |