After a recent Windows update you may have noticed that all Flash content (and any ActiveX control) displays a new message that says:
“Click to activate and use this control”
This only applies to Internet Explorer and is a result of a patent filed by Eolas, Inc. While I’m not interested in discussing whether or not [...]

If you’re looking for good information on executing multiple threads in Windows Mobile then check out this article. There’s a code snippet that really helps demonstrate the process of creating and terminating threads. I’m by no means a thread expert so I found the article extremely useful. I’m currently dealing with multiple [...]

I’ve received quite a few emails about the Windows Mobile version of BlueGPS.  Just last night I finished the compass animation and should have a few bugs worked out this weekend.  I’ll be releasing it for public beta sometime next week and will create a landing page for the app.  It’s much more elegant than [...]

I love the effectiveness of HTML email when it’s used properly.  A bad example of an HTML email can be seen below.  If a business expects me to spend $100 on their product then I recommend letting me read the offer as well as any testimonials.  In the example below sent from Leadbetter Interactive the [...]

I received an interesting comment today that I wanted to respond to.  A reader was asking if there’s support for metadata (mainly to retrieve width and height) within the flv format and if it’s generated by FFmpeg.  In a previous post I talked about using Ruby on Rails to call a FFmpeg process to encode [...]

Google scores a point. Well not really, but I did find this kind of funny when trying to download Google Maps to my Windows Mobile device:

As a spare time project I’ve been working on rewriting Jamie’s shopping cart using Ruby on Rails. One reason is that her current x-cart system is just too difficult to configure and tweak from a display standpoint. There’s a lot we’d like to do with data presentation and while the x-cart software is very [...]

I spent a little time this evening working on a screen for the Windows Mobile version of BlueGPS. I have a few bugs to work out and should be releasing it within the next week. Here’s a sample screen:

I plan on getting the compass to display the appropriate direction. I had a compass [...]

Ruby has a very elegant syntax when it comes to several things. A good example is how I was checking for the existence of a session variable in my Rails app:
if(session[:my_variable) == nil)
// Do something here
end
I don't really have a problem with the syntax above, but was suprised to find the following syntax that does [...]

I’ve done several posts about extracting JPG and PNG frames using FFmpeg. I’ve received quite a few comments about users having problems with the following command:
ffmpeg -i swing.avi -s 320×240 -vframes 1 -f singlejpeg swing.jpg
This has worked for me time and time again, but possibly it’s not supported in newer versions. Right now [...]