http://www.db75.com/blog/ en-us 2005-12-28T14:12:44-06:00 http://www.db75.com/blog/archives/000185.html Jakob Nielsen has posted an interesting article about the number of internet users now online. What I find even more suprising is that North America comes in 3rd at 23%.... dennis baldwin 2005-12-28T14:12:44-06:00 http://www.db75.com/blog/archives/000184.html I'm frustrated to no end about the misuse of the web. I ventured into web land in 1997 where it was a somewhat calm and peaceful place. Nowadays there are so many fraudulent practices going on....one which is known as... dennis baldwin 2005-12-22T11:04:18-06:00 http://www.db75.com/blog/archives/000183.html If you publish any video content or even consume it, you might find Jakob Nielsen's video study interesting. While Nielsen is one of those guys people seem to love or hate I tend to learn from his studies. While I... dennis baldwin 2005-12-18T22:54:13-06:00 http://www.db75.com/blog/archives/000182.html The other day I was seriously struggling with a mapping project that included drawing PolyLines on a Google map. To tell you the exact story the application was working perfectly in FireFox. It wasn't until I fired up IE that... dennis baldwin 2005-12-18T22:27:37-06:00 http://www.db75.com/blog/archives/000181.html A while back I did a post on installing FlashCom on Fedora Core 3. Tonight I decided to download the latest version of FlashCom now known as Flash Media Server 2. I ran into an install problem with Fedora Core... dennis baldwin 2005-12-13T23:55:19-06:00 http://www.db75.com/blog/archives/000180.html I was suprised to find out that FFmpeg supports 3GPP format. I've been using this mobile format to take videos of my daughter with me on the road. Quicktime Pro supports exporting to this format and does a great job... dennis baldwin 2005-12-11T21:50:24-06:00 http://www.db75.com/blog/archives/000179.html It seems that IE has spoiled me. I used to rely on the ALT attribute of the image tag to provide tooltips for images. I found out this evening that this doesn't work in Firefox. If you mouseover the images... dennis baldwin 2005-12-08T21:02:23-06:00 http://www.db75.com/blog/archives/000178.html I've been spending a decent amount of time lately with Flex skins (aka themes). While this is a great step forward from Flash this comes nowhere near the capabilities of raw HTML/CSS. My task was simple: create a custom background... Flex dennis baldwin 2005-12-08T12:09:29-06:00 http://www.db75.com/blog/archives/000177.html Last year I put together a video documenting my daughter's first year of life. I created a couple of DVDs several months ago and have been meaning to get around to creating some web friendly versions of the video. In... dennis baldwin 2005-12-04T21:58:23-06:00 http://www.db75.com/blog/archives/000176.html I've been playing with FFmpeg over the last year to encode video files for Flash. I've mainly experimented with my golf swing and created a little app to compare each frame of my swing to a pro's. This helps me... dennis baldwin 2005-11-30T00:48:18-06:00 http://www.db75.com/blog/archives/000175.html I probably spend about 5 hours a week reading blogs and about the same writing. I'd love to spend more writing, but my time has been pretty limited with work and a few projects. At any rate, I found the... dennis baldwin 2005-11-27T22:39:05-06:00 http://www.db75.com/blog/archives/000174.html Everyone has their opinion on this one so here's mine. I love HTML email when I'm not dealing with spam or someone spoofing that they're ebay or PayPal and trying to grab my account information. Then there's always the people... dennis baldwin 2005-11-27T22:27:34-06:00 http://www.db75.com/blog/archives/000173.html I'm definitely thankful and blessed with great family, friends, co-workers, and colleagues. But this isn't about them....today I'm extremely thankful for my job and the fact that I don't have this one.... dennis baldwin 2005-11-26T12:50:06-06:00 http://www.db75.com/blog/archives/000172.html I've spent a lot of time lately transitioning from ColdFusion to Ruby on Rails. I love CF, but I've been looking for a change of pace and RoR provides numerous features that make it extremely attractive. One of the reasons... dennis baldwin 2005-11-20T22:02:24-06:00 http://www.db75.com/blog/archives/000170.html If you're looking for something for mom or grandma then consider these stocking stuffers. I have to plug Jamie's site every now and then because it helps her search engine ratings and will hopefully help drive traffic to her site.... dennis baldwin 2005-11-17T23:15:23-06:00