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Sideline: Adobe AIR + YUI + Twitter Search |
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Written by Chad Auld
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Mar 31, 2009 at 06:24 PM |
 I've been working on a new project, Sideline, for Yahoo! over the last several months. What started off as a small side project quickly took on a life of its own. Sideline is an Adobe® AIR™ desktop application that allows advanced searching and monitoring of the Twitter public timeline. It makes use of the Yahoo! User Interface library (YUI) and demonstrates how YUI can be an effective JavaScript framework even outside the standard browsing environment. Here is an article I did on the YUIBlog which goes into more detail on the product and on using YUI within the AIR environment in general. Rather than retell the story I recommend you have a look over there. I'll do a follow-up post about AIR and memory usage in an upcoming post.
The code is open source under the BSD license. You can find the github branch here. Enjoy and happy forking!
UPDATE: Here is a short video interview I did for the Yahoo Developer Network (YDN) about the development of Sideline.
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Setup Boxee on Ubuntu 8.10 |
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Written by Chad Auld
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Feb 16, 2009 at 08:09 PM |
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As I mentioned in a previous post I recently switched over to Boxee for all my digital content needs. My initial Boxee setup was done with an Apple Mac Mini. The installation/configuration process in that case was extremely simple. The first Boxee Media Center worked out so well that I wanted a second one to replace digital cable and Tivo in the bedroom as well. I have a second Mac Mini, but it is a bit older and I quickly realized it would not work with Boxee since they do not support the G4 chip. In addition to Mac OS X boxee also supports Ubuntu 8.04 and 8.10. So I decided to tear apart some old boxes I had laying around from past MythTV experiments and build a myself a new Boxee Media Center with Ubuntu 8.10. The Boxee setup process for Ubuntu 8.10 was not as simple and so I wanted to document it here for the benefit of others. |
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Digital Content Your Way (Boxee) |
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Written by Chad Auld
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Feb 16, 2009 at 05:54 PM |
A few years back my friend and I built our own Tivo like boxes with Ubuntu and MythTV.
The process was less than simple and involved a lot of tweaking and
experimentation, but the end result was actually quite nice. Today
this process has been simplified a great deal and users can grab one of
many pre-built MythTV Linux distributions such as Mythbuntu.
I ran my MythTV box for a few months before I ran into a hardware
issue. I swapped out a few parts with no luck and without much time
to troubleshoot it the box sat idle for over a year.
Since that time I've experimented with a number of services to get my digital content; DirectTV, Tivo, the Galleon Tivo Media Server, Amazon Video On Demand, BitTorrent, Usenet, iTunes, Hulu, Joost, Schmooze.TV, Netflix,
etc. Each of these methods has its own set of advantages and
disadvantages. Some are fairly nerdy and unfriendly to the average
user. Others have a cost component that may or may not be within ones
budget. One component that has always been required in my setup was
digital cable (i.e.) Comcast and/or DirectTV. These services have
worked without issue, but are very costly and come overloaded with
commercial advertisements. We have used Tivo for over 6 years now to morph
digital cable into tolerable on demand and commercial free content. I
do not mind advertising in the free content found on sites like Hulu,
ABC, CBS, etc, but when I spend as much money as I do with my digital
cable service I don't appreciate the additional marketing. In recent years digital
cable companies have started to create their own on demand services and Tivo like interfaces. I've not been impressed with a single one
thus far though.
With the amount of digital content available on
the Internet these days I decided it was time to have a go at
eliminating digital cable from my list of services. The current
economic crisis has made this even more appealing since who wouldn't be
up for dropping a costly monthly bill or two. There are various methods of
retrieving TV shows, movies, and music on the Internet in an illegal manner,
but I am focused legal methods and as I stated earlier I am ok with advertisements in otherwise free content. So I started by laying out
what my ultimate setup would feel like. I want on demand access to TV
shows (past and present), a collection of Movies (past and present), my
own library of digital content (music, dvds, pictures, etc), and a
streaming music service. I want all that in an single interface that I can
interact with via my remote control over my broadband Internet connection. Lastly, I'd prefer it be something based around open source technology. |
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