Orkut says "You are going to have a very comfortable old age", I don't know but I hope so :)
Orkut says nice things most of times, I am not sure of correctness but it makes me happy. May be that's what Orkut wants to do, making users happy...
Never mind my very off-topic post :-)
YouTube has added some new features, which are:-
This list is not complete, these are just my observation, I thought to list down here. Check out YouTube in it's new avatar..
I am not able to access orkut.com, it seems it has been banned in Maharastra (the state I stay) or entire India? A quick Google News search returned the link of this news where Maharastra chief-minister has asked Indian ISPs/Center to block orkut.
I can understand the government's concern about different hate-communities on orkut but I am wondering, why can't Indian government give a list (URLs) of such communities to ISPs so that selective ban can be done instead of entire orkut.com. Anyways, I am not a political person, neither I want to be. I respect government's decision, I am sure this is done for good cause. I am also hopeful that orkut would work again either government would do selective filtering or make Google delete all such communities.
I just wanted to let everyone know that it might not be their systems problem, if they are not able to access orkut, rather this particular ban could be the reason.
While working on ActionScript 2.0 API for YouTube, I sent a mail to YouTube-developer-support to ask if they are planning any improvement in their API to allow us (developers) to get the FLV url without any hacks. I didn't get the response of that mail for many days. Anyways, I sent another mail informing that I implemented the same and they might want to post a link at their developer-page. They used to have links of other implementation (f.ex. fTube by Manish)
The response from their support guy is little funny, atleast I laughed first-time. Click the following image to see it.
I think, he might replied me instead of someone else.
I am just wondering, if YouTube has recently changed it's crossdomain.xml? The YouTube ActionScript 2.0 API example I wrote, has stopped working? I was using their REST API to consume data and it seems it doesn't work any more for me? What is the reason (developer-id is banned or my IP address or my domain is blacklisted)?
If they have changed it, it's really bad. We can not create frontends in Flash, which means YouTube API and RSS feeds are useless for Flash/Flex developers. I can use server-side proxy but I don't want to.
Please update me if it is working work your Flash/Flex applications.
Update: Yup! They have done it, I did a quick search and found that it used to be "*" instead of "*.youtube.com", you can see in image shown below.
Update: YouTube's crossdomain.xml changes might be because of security concerns, you can further read on these blogs:-
Through Bill Perry's blog I got to know that FlashLite 2.1 standalone player is free for supported Symbian devices (Nokia S60, Sony etc). Yet another good move by Adobe. I am not sure, what would be their revenue model by making this free? Anyways, Thanks Adobe.
Check out Bill's post for more. You can get installer from this download link.
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I stopped going to conferences and unconferences for sometime. The last event I attended was BarcampBangalore, I wanted to help folks in organizing BarcampBangalore but couldn't do as much as I wanted to, because I fell sick. Though It was good experience. After that I have been busy with work and many ideas around my project so didn't feel like or didn't get time to attend any other Barcamps or events.
Now I feel I can start doing it again, I am planning to speak in BarcampPune on some topics, I have to decide from a list I have.
FYI! BarcampPune2 is most likely happening on Dec 16-17, 2006 in Symbiosis Institute of Computer Studies and Research (SICSR), Pune. You can register on BarcampPune2 Wiki.
If you are around, let's catch up.
Are you a student who likes Adobe Flex/Flash/Coldfusion? There is a chance to show your skills by participating in Adobe India Developer Olympiad. You can find more details on Raghu's blog, Manish's blog and ADO page.
Yeah, you need to be a student to participate in this contest. I don't get why this contest not open for all developers in India?
I might be little biased over this, but I always find funny when I see some form like this asking your degree and branch.
Is it necessary? Why can't you just live up with college name? A developer is developer, his/her degree helps him/her to solve problems but not you?
I mean, I am not able to figure out how this information would help in having a successful contest? Asking these details might make some folks think whether they are right one or not. Guys, it's passion that matters for building community not degrees.
I hope this contest goes well and becomes successful. This is first contest of its kind for Adobe Flex/Coldfusion. There was one long back by Macromedia and ZDNetIndia, that was open for all.
I am just wondering if I can write a torrent client in ActionScript 3.0. I understand Adobe Flash Player can not do peer-to-peer(P2P) connection now but may partial implementation is possible, where only downloader part is possible, where Flash application connects to torrent network and download bits from different torrent clients on network? I can write a windows/mac exectuable that wraps SWF to achieve this.
I am also not able to find complete specification except BitTorrent's. If you have been thinking about it or have some thoughts about it, I would appriciate some kind of sharing.
I had small requirement of YouTube API in one of my personal ActionScript 2.0 project, I couldn't find any ActionScript 2.0 version of YouTube API. I wrote it couple of hours.
You can look at source code and example (app I made to test it, quick and dirty) and you can download it with example files.
You would notice, to construct FLV URL, I am doing client side parsing of YouTube html page to find out "t" param. This doesn't work in Internet Explorer 6.0 (IE 6) because of a bug where IE 6.0 doesn't uncompress gzipped page if requested through LoadVars?
In production mode, I would prefer server-side proxy to find out "t" param because it's optimized:
Update: I am using following PHP code to get FLV from YouTube asset servers.
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