Δεκέμβριος 2012 - Δημοσιεύσεις

2012 in review for @zoomicon blog
31 Δεκεμβρίου 12 09:10 πμ | Μπιρμπίλης Γεώργιος | 0 σχόλια   

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: 4,329 films were submitted to the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. This blog had 48,000 views in 2012. If each view were a film, this blog would power 11 Film Festivals Click here to see the complete report. Tagged: 2012, [...]

Δημοσίευση στην κατηγορία: Posts, Statistics, 2012

Eco-unfriendly Philips shipping empty software CD with just a URL in it
29 Δεκεμβρίου 12 05:02 μμ | Μπιρμπίλης Γεώργιος | 0 σχόλια   

I just got an (overpriced) Philips PTA01 USB adapter the other day to make my Philips Smart TV also work wirelessly (apart from via Ethernet cable) and it came with the Philips MediaConnect software on a CD, or at least I thought so till I placed the CD in my computer. I then found out [...]

Δημοσίευση στην κατηγορία: Ecology, Posts, Fail, Internet, Media, Deploying, Philips, CD, Software, Wifi, TV

Gotcha: Image component not loading remote URLs during debugging
18 Δεκεμβρίου 12 01:13 πμ | Μπιρμπίλης Γεώργιος | 0 σχόλια   

At ClipFlair’s Image component I use the following XAML to make it show an image from a URL that its ViewModel holds at a property named “Source”, of type Uri (URI = Uniform or Universal Resource Identifier in W3C parlance, something like a superset of the old classic URLs). <Image Name="imgContent"        HorizontalAlignment="Stretch" VerticalAlignment="Stretch"        [...]

Δημοσίευση στην κατηγορία: Security, Posts, Fail, Silverlight, ClipFlair, Loading, Gotcha, URL, Image, Debug

Fix: Transform Manager ignoring media files added to watch folders
14 Δεκεμβρίου 12 02:22 μμ | Μπιρμπίλης Γεώργιος | 0 σχόλια   

I’ve been puzzled for some days now with the IIS Transform Manager installation we have at ClipFlair for automating the conversion of media files (for example using Microsoft Expression Encoder) into IIS Smooth Streams. The watch folder I’ve set up for this task was ignoring some of the media files I was dropping in for no [...]

Δημοσίευση στην κατηγορία: Video, Transforms, Posts, ClipFlair, Smooth Streaming, IIS, HowTo, Media, Encoding

HowTo: Troubleshoot .MSI installations
09 Δεκεμβρίου 12 11:14 μμ | Μπιρμπίλης Γεώργιος | 0 σχόλια   

Copying from Microsoft Web Deploy readme: If you encounter any problems during installation, you can run appropriate command listed below for your version of Windows to create a log file that will contain information about the installation process: msiexec /L install.log /I <path_to_msi> You can analyze this log file after a failed installation to help [...]

Δημοσίευση στην κατηγορία: Posts, Installers, ClipFlair, Troubleshooting, HowTo, Compression, Deploying, MSI

Can’t step-through Silverlight file dialogs with Visual Studio debugger
02 Δεκεμβρίου 12 08:58 μμ | Μπιρμπίλης Γεώργιος | 0 σχόλια   

While stepping through “ShowDialog()” method of OpenFileDialog with Visual Studio 2010 debugger, at the Silverlight code pictured below (for loading a ClipFlair window’s stored options), I got a “Dialogs must be user-initiated” exception. Same behaviour will be shown with SaveFileDialog too, every time you try to step through the “ShowDialog()” method. This is because of [...]

Δημοσίευση στην κατηγορία: Security, UI, Posts, Filesystem, Silverlight, ClipFlair, HowTo, Gotcha, Debug, Dialogs