Author Archives: robert.sanders

Starting an adventure with Gradle

By robert.sanders | Published: June 17, 2011
We’ve been getting back into gear to start development of CoSolvent Flash Player version 2; which will really be the 5th major release of our core logic as the player was previously a more or less nameless piece of internal code.  The new version will be based on Adobe’s OSMF which we’ve been following with [...]
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Eclipse Infocenter Help as Web App

By robert.sanders | Published: January 21, 2011
For all the effort that appears to have gone into allowing the Eclipse Help “Infocenter” to run as a deployed web application, the documentation is not great, and more importantly – why isn’t there a download thats “ready to go”?  This is something that’s bothered me for sometime now. For the impatient, you can skip [...]
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Milestone 32: CoSolvent Comunity Server

By robert.sanders | Published: October 25, 2010
I am pleased to announce that we released Milestone 32.1 of CoSolvent Community Server last week.  The main new functionality in this release is that FLV files can now be stored and served “as is” – previously FLV uploads were treated just like any other video upload and were reprocessed into 3 different streams (configurable) [...]
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Milestone 31: CoSolvent Comunity Server

By robert.sanders | Published: October 15, 2010
Last night we released Milestone 31 of CoSolvent Community Server to production.  Among other things this updates PDF display for IE to use the non-standard <object> tag syntax using the classid attribute and the src param instead of the type and data attributes used in standards mode.  The standards mode tag works, mostly; however IE [...]
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DITA Table of Contents

By robert.sanders | Published: September 30, 2010
Update: I still intend to publish the full code for this at some point soon, most likely via github, however I have gotten pulled away onto several other projects, and have not yet been able to get this into a version that I an satisfied with.  Additionally, I will need to move the code out [...]
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Milestone 29: CoSolvent Comunity Server

By robert.sanders | Published: September 14, 2010
Wow, so much going on that I forgot to post Milestone 28!  Anyway, I am truly pleased to be able to announce that we’ve finished Milestone 29 on CoSolvent Community Server.  As usual the full list of changes (in developer speak) can be found on on our Assembla page https://www.assembla.com/spaces/cosolvent/tickets,  just use the “Closed by [...]
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Milestone 27: CoSolvent Comunity Server

By robert.sanders | Published: August 17, 2010
The development team here at iPOV is pleased to announce the release of CoSolvent Community Server, Milestone 27. This release continues to improve stability and expand the feature set. The main changes in this release are: Improvements to Commenting, including the addition of “Sort by Video Timing” to sort the comments based on the time [...]
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Drupal 6 Ajax Screenshot Gallery

By robert.sanders | Published: September 16, 2009
We recently wanted to put up a carousel-style image gallery of product screenshots in our Drupal based website. After a good bit of research, I wound up with several “solutions”, but none of them did quite what I wanted; luckily I hit upon a solution by a bit of good luck simply by noticing some [...]
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