September 2006 - Posts

Cool cat

Just testing Windows Live writer.

Debugging Client side script errors

I had a difficult problem with broadcasting powerpoint presentation. The tool I want to use can be found in the Windows Media Encoder 9 SDK - which is by the way a very cool SDK if you need to automate your encoder related tasks. In this SDK, you will find the samples\vb\ppt sample, what is a little powerpoint add-in for doing broadcast from your Powerpoint with slides, video an audio. It can take about 10 users if you direct your users to connect directly to the Encoder and many more if the Encoder is using a Windows Media Server to distribute audio and video. The client side is webpage hosting the media player for video playback and using some scripts to pull out the slides and html from the stream. Now, when I am doing the broadcast on some clients I can see the video and hear the audio, but could not see the slides at all. The Encoder puts the html, image into the stream - I double checked these with taking a netmon capture and identifying the embedded data.


I am suspecting that the browser is not handling the scripts well, or maybe the script is broken somehow. I do not know anything about scripting and JScript, so I am right now collecting information about debugging client side scripts. I though it would be usefull to publish some links here as well:

This is it for so far, if I figured out the problem I will update this article.

IronPython 1.0 released

I just read the announcement on James Huguin's blog, that he and his team released IronPython 1.0. I think this is a very important release as it shows the coming age of dynamic languages on the .NET platform. I expect to see Ruby soon on the .NET platform and AppleScript or a similar scripting language would be really cool.
I decided to learn a new language each year and I am getting really interested in these dynamic languages, so I think this year's winner is going to be either python or ruby....