The internet through a developers eyes

Server room during a rain shower

Posted last year, at the end of August by Dave.
Categories: Internet, Servers, Flash Video.
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I got an email tonight with a link to this video on Google Videos, very funny.

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Stealing Flash Videos

Posted last year, mid-April by Dave.
Categories: Flash Video.
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When you view any video on any of the Flash video websites like You Tube you are downloading the whole video to your temporary internet files. They use Progressive Downloads (you download a bit, then another bit).

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Adding .flv MIME type in IIS

Posted last year, mid-April by Dave.
Categories: Web Developement, Servers, Windows, Flash Video.
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By default Flash video is not in the MIME type list of Windows IIS because of this IIS doesn’t know how to handle it and Flash videos will not work until you do the following.

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What am I listening to?

Posted last year, at the end of March by Dave.
Categories: Web Developement, Flash.
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Here is a cool Flash app I built to interface with a XML feed from my desktop of what I am listening to on iTunes. I wrote a blog post titled MySpace Now Playing back in Aug 2006, here is the updated version of that Flash application.
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Flash Video

Posted last year, mid-March by Dave.
Categories: Web Developement, Servers, Flash, Flash Video, FMS 2.0.
Post Views: 556 Views.

I am just completing a Flash Video tour system for the company I work for. Below is a demo of one of the videos.
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