We recently finished up on a couple of facebook apps at Brando. The first, an app for Lifestyle Sports, gave me a chance to look further into the Wowza server and live streaming. The cam seems to be broadcasting though and I’ve learned a few things about setup for this. I’m quite happy with the results. The first was for BUPI. It allowed the user to upload an image of their child, and then put them in a Christmas card.

I’ve done a lot of flash video players over the years. Too many. Some had custom interfaces, some used the default flash video component. Others were completely custom, managing the stream events and displaying the video in the vanilla video component. Then Dave came to me with the OSMF Strobe Media Playback component. We had tried the JW Player a couple of times before, but found the per domain price a little excessive outside of large clients.

I recently wanted to insert a class for the case where a menu item has children in Wordpress. There doesn’t appear to be any option to do this in wp_nav_menu function, so I started doing some research. I found out from this article how to add a ’last-menu-item’ css class. This doesn’t quite work for what I wanted though, because the returned data object from Wordpress doesn’t tell you if the current node has children.

Be The Difference 2010 has picked up a one show merit and a cannes lion. Congrats to all the lads, well done.

Recently started work on a new website. We’re using the Kentico CMS, and came across the following while building some search based functionality: http://www.kentico.com/Docs/DevGuide/smart_search_overview.htm The lads have integrated their system with a C# port of the lucene search engine library. From what I’ve seen so far, this gives developers really powerful search and sorting options. A summary of some these options can be found here http://lucene.apache.org/java/2_1_0/queryparsersyntax.html. Like I say, I’ve only started on this, and will update this post when the project is finished.