James Leong | Web Developer

I have been looking into .NET recently.  Yes.. I am finally looking.  Was trying to look into .NET for the last couple of years… but was always trying.  Finally, when a person gets stuck in Pakistan with no movies, no bridge, no friends for coffeeshop chats, he has time to do some serious investigation into software technologies…

I think this point is pretty obvious.. I mean.. just look at the number of articles I have written recently.  Scary really.  Anyway, this will be a constantly updated article.  Why constantly updated?

Well, for the simple reason that I am not exactly looking at mastering .NET within a day or two.. and this is intended to be some sort of a journal for me to note down the difference between the 2 frameworks.  I am pretty familiar with Java J2EE… so I should be able to point out the difference along the way….

Stay tuned.

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If you have read my previous article on video streaming, you will have noted that most of the popular video broadcasting sites broadcast in Flash flv format.  Of course, there are some freeware on the net which allows you to convert different video formats to flv… but nothing beats server side conversion to SWF format….

I mean.. just take a peek at you tube.  Surely, you dun see them asking you to convert your video to FLV format before uploading to their side?

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Well, needed to find out how this video streaming actually works… so had to do some research. Well, as usual, I consulted one of my favorite weskits, How Stuff Works. Yeap.. it is one of my favorite as it explains to you things in lay man terms… and we all know how difficult it is… to explain geeky stuff in non-geeky language.

Anyway, for those of you who are wondering, here is the link:

http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/streaming-video-and-audio5.htm

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You know… I never really appreciated Gmail until I got stuck in Pakistan.  I had a server hosted in Singapore data center.  Access to emails were always at a blazingly fast speed… that was until I got stuck in Pakistan for a couple of months (for business reasons)….

Then, it got really irritating.  Due to the poor network problems, checking email became a chore.  It was like lottery.  50% of the time you get your mails, the other 50% of the time… bad luck bro… .and so it remained until I discovered that Gmail allowed you to interface to POP accounts…

Basically Gmail can be used to both receive and send your emails!  It can be the web-based front end to your traditional POP email accounts!

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I never had any trouble with the WordPress Blog until recently.  Needed to migrate the blog to localhost to do some quick skinning when I realise how problematic that could be.  One of the problems with WordPress is that they tend to use full url links instead of relative links.  As such, the simple direct transfer of files and database dump just will not do.  Needed to do some direct tweaking on the database.

Thank god there were some helpful souls at:

http://www.mydigitallife.info/2007/10/01/how-to-move-wordpress-blog-to-new-domain-or-location/

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