The “Flashy” future of TV
July 7th, 2009 22:07At CES 2009 Adobe sneaked the Flash Lite for the Digital Home (aka Flash for TV) and it was officially announce at NAB 2009. In this video Robert Scoble gets an overview of this platform from Anup Murarka (director of Technology for Adobe Systems)
Interview with Jordi Romkema on Spongebob for Atmost.TV
July 6th, 2009 20:07After the recent Adobe User Group meeting, I was asked by Atmost.TV to interview Jordi Romkema of MTV Networks. Jordi has been very busy with a project for Spongebob.nl: the Cartoon creator!
Original post on DutchCowboys.
Tags: Adobe, aug, flash, videoFrom feisty to jaunty (Ubuntu upgrade) – Netatalk woes
July 5th, 2009 16:07This weekend I spend some time upgrading my home server from Ubuntu Feisty Fawn (7.04) to Jaunty Jackalope. This was not a straightforward upgrade because some of the release between these version are not available on the Debian archive server and has to be pulled from the “old-releases.ubuntu.com”.
I used the documentation for the EOLUpgrade procedure to go from Feisty to Gutsy, to Hardy, to Intrepid and finally to Jaunty Jackalope. I had to manually hack the Upgrade DistUpgradeControler for the “do-release-upgrade” command in Feisty. These commands were based on this forum post.
wget http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/gutsy/main/dist-upgrader-all/current/gutsy.tar.gz
wget http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/gutsy/main/dist-upgrader-all/current/gutsy.tar.gz.gpg
gpg --keyring /etc/apt/trusted.gpg --verify gutsy.tar.gz.gpg gutsy.tar.gz
tar xf gutsy.tar.gz
gutsy "./dist-upgrade.py --frontend=DistUpgradeViewGtk"
From their on it went quite smooth and after some reboots and various “do-release-upgrades” Jaunty Jackalope was running on my system.
Some gotchas: Upgrade from 8.04 (LTS) to 8.10 (Intrepid) needs some attention to step away from the LTS version. See this article especially the section with “Edit /etc/update-manager/release-upgrades and set:”
Prompt=normal
Exim4 had some issues because the DEBCONF variables are deprecated and do not work anymore. Read the document available in /usr/share/doc/exim4-config/NEWS.Debian.gz
Netatalk was a different issue. After upgrading, I could not logon from my Macbook Pro to my AFP shares (including the timemachine backup). It seems that this has to do with password encryption not supported in the current build due to some licensing issues.
I followed these instructions to create my own Ubuntu/Debian package for Netatalk. During compilation I ran into the problem that my headers files for the Berkeley DB did not match the library
checking Berkeley DB library version >= 4.1.0... header/library version mismatch (4.7.25/4.4.20), no
This is a strange problem, because both versions were installed. I patched the “configure” file to fix this. Search for the following line in “configure”
{ echo "$as_me:$LINENO: checking for Berkeley DB link (-ldb-4.2)" >&5
Replace all four “-4.2″ instances with “-4.7″ and rerun following command
DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=ssl sudo dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc
Note: If you already had an older version of Netatalk running, it could be that the .AppleDB files in your shares on the server are of an older version; you probably have to trash the .AppleDB files, otherwise you get an error when MacOS X tries to connect to the share.
After these exercises, I have Jaunty Jackalope running on my Sun Ultra 20. This version supports the sensors that are in the system; so with the warm weather, it does not turn on the fans as high as it did before in Feisty (without the sensor support).
Tags: linux, netatalk, ubuntuFlash Catalyst (beta) and Flash Builder 4 (beta) now on Adobe Labs
June 1st, 2009 07:06Yes, you read it right in the title. Adobe Flash Catalyst is now in public beta available on Adobe Labs. You can download this new software today and start building your RIAs right from the start, based on Adobe Photoshop or Adobe Illustrator assets. Ryan Stewart has a lot of information (and screencasts) on Flash Catalyst on his blog. When you’ve created the initial design and added interactivity to it, use your (or your colleague’s) developer skills and Flash Builder 4 (also in beta) to add the business logic to it. Flash Builder 4 has nice new productivity features, which Tim Buntel tells more about on his blog.
Enjoy!!
Adobe AIR Flip – A “Time Waster”
April 10th, 2009 11:04
Do you also like the CS4 Mnemonics? Have a look at this “AIR FLIP” game. You can build very nice things using Adobe Suite Creative 4. Currently I am wrapping up the roadshow in the Benelux for the “Daily Time Savers” campaign; if you missed it, you could also have a look on the Time Savers website for additional information. Although Creative Suite 4 can help you save time, playing games like “Adobe AIR FLIP” can be a real time waster.
