<xsl:template match="cxml:Item" mode="col">   <xsl:variable name="FILENAME" select="…someXPathQuery…"/>   <xsl:variable name="IMAGE" select="concat(‘http://gallery.clipflair.net/activity/image/’, $FILENAME, ‘.png’)"/> … I got confused a bit ...

While trying to generate a single HTML page that will list all ClipFlair activities using XSL Transformations (XSLT), I had the need to group items in 2-column rows. This is my contribution to other solutions suggested at (if you like it you can vote it up there): ...

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 [...]

In the context of ClipFlair development, I was recently adding independent scaling (zooming) functionality to its ZUI container’s floating windows (apart from the container zooming functionality) and came across some strange behavior, where the windows seemed to also move apart from getting scaled. After banging my head a bit I decided to take a ...

Added various tools related to text transformations at my tranXform website (30-Sep-2010 update): TemplateFilter DOS filter – parses CSV-style multi-column (";" separator) input text rows (one row per text line) and generates text based on a supplied template that is applied per input row TextCaseConvertion simple GUI-based tool to ...