Brooks AndrusThis is the blog of Brooks Andrus. Here, at irregular intervals, you may find digital noise centered around the activities of an early 21st century technologist. I work for TechSmith Corporation, but this web space and the views found on it are entirely my own.AIRhead: What Exactly Is ClipboardFormats.URL_FORMAT- September 16, 2008 Maybe its just my contrarian nature resisting stack overflow, but I think I&8217;m going to kick it old school for the time being and stick to posting my stupid programming questions and pathetic hacks on my own personal blog. After all I&8217;ve got like 3 readers and I don&8217;t work in some swank NYC development ...http://www.brooksandrus.com/blog/2008/09/16/airhead-what-exactly-is-clipboardformatsurl_fo... AIRhead: OS Specific Accelerator Key Weirdness- September 16, 2008 Warning Nerd Post&8211;disregard if you&8217;re not an AIRhead. I&8217;ve been working on a little AIR app and had a helluva time trying to get a NativeMenuItem keyboard shortcut set up for &8220;Save As&8221; functionality. The thing is I wasn&8217;t trying to do anything difficult. I was setting the keyboardEquivalent to lower case &8220;s&8221; and then ...http://www.brooksandrus.com/blog/2008/09/15/airhead-os-specific-accelerator-key-weirdness/ AIR Screen Capture. Not So Fast.- September 12, 2008 AIR has all the makings to support the perfect lightweight, cross-platform screen capture application. After all, as the screencast immediately below shows, you can copy all the pixels on the display list that you want and save them to the file system or upload them to the interweb node of your liking. kml_flashembed movie="http:www.brooksandrus.commediamediaplayer.swf" width="640" ...http://www.brooksandrus.com/blog/2008/09/11/air-screen-capture-not-so-fast/ The Killer App Ubiquity Myth: The Olympic Bounce For Silverlight- September 10, 2008 Now that Microsoft has released the Silverlight Olympic data I hope we can put to rest the killer app equals instant ubiquity argument. Often overlooked in all of the killer app dogma (or you can call it a smoking gun like Steve Gillmor) is the fact that adoption of Silverlight was event, rather than application, driven. ...http://www.brooksandrus.com/blog/2008/09/10/the-killer-app-ubiquity-myth-the-olympic-bounc... Convergence: Silverlight 3 To Support h.264 Video- September 10, 2008 Holy mother of all video codecs, Batman! Microsoft announces Silverlight 3 will support h.264. It&8217;s been a pretty good week for Microsoft on the hearts and minds front. First they role out Seinfeld as a pitchman (you had me at Shoe Circus Jerry). The ad was subtle, avoided the obvious Apple references, was utterly devoid ...http://www.brooksandrus.com/blog/2008/09/10/convergence-silverlight-3-to-support-h264-vide... Does Chrome Spell The End Of Browser As Platform- September 4, 2008 Love the bold UI workflow approach of Chrome. It also makes complete sense for Google to make a client service play as the gatekeeper to the world&8217;s information, though I&8217;m not without enormous reservations here (too much power and too much control if they ever become the dominant browser). I&8217;m wondering how the web ...http://www.brooksandrus.com/blog/2008/09/03/does-chrome-spell-the-end-of-browser-as-platfo... Yegges Business Requirements Are BS: Jingstream Cliffnotes- September 3, 2008 Steve Yegge lambasts business requirements as heaping piles of, well, shit. It&8217;s an evocative rant with a few pearls and paradoxes. Definitely worth a read if you&8217;ve got the time. If not, but you want a peek inside my notebook, here&8217;s a jingstream of what I found interesting.http://www.brooksandrus.com/blog/2008/09/03/yegges-business-requirements-are-bs-jingstream... Users Are Not Aliens: Why Usability Testing Often Fails- September 3, 2008 Somehow we&8217;ve lost sight of the fact that we&8217;re more alike than different. Our basic knowledge of self is core to our understanding of others. Humans wouldn&8217;t be so adept socially if we were so inept at understanding others. It&8217;s this very adeptness that&8217;s allowed us to survive and thrive for eons. The puzzler is ...http://www.brooksandrus.com/blog/2008/09/03/users-are-not-aliens-why-usability-testing-oft... Stop Adobe Media Player From Launching At Startup- September 1, 2008 So far (one year later) I&8217;m pretty non-plussed with Adobe Media Player. It reminds me too much of Real WMP which means I must not be the target market, or I&8217;m just old and cranky. The source of much of my irritation has been that it launches at startup and I don&8217;t remember giving ...http://www.brooksandrus.com/blog/2008/09/01/stop-adobe-media-player-from-launching-at-star... |