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Home-brewed Flash MP3 player

I’ve finally finished my own Flash-based MP3 player for my site (specifically for the music section). Let me give you a little tour…

The image you see above is an image (for now) of the new player. Pretty spiffy eh? While you can click on it to load the real player, I strongly advise against it for the time being. Take the time to read through this post first – and you’ll eventually get to play with it with a written commentary below.

I’ve included what I thought to be the more useful stuff a person would normally look for in a player. Aside from the regular stuff (title, play/pause/stop, etc.) here’s some more: Read More

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Comment section improved

As you all know, my comment form has always had a live preview feature that had limited support for [Markdown]0 syntax – which I discussed in a past entry

Recently (a while ago to be exact), I found a somewhat full implementation of [Markdown]0 via JavaScript here. Naturally I decided to integrate it into the live preview function. So I spent the whole practice session of our choir hacking away at the code to fit my needs. Here’s what came out of it:

Feel free to try commenting yourself 🙂 Read More

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RSS feed updates

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I’ve been tracking my feed activity through Mint, via a “pepper” 1 What they call “plugins” for Mint that can track FeedBurner stats… so I did some .htaccess jiggery-pokery 2 A term I blatantly filched from Mark Gruber of DaringFireball.net to make the URL redirect to the FeedBurner site without you guys having to do anything. So while you clicked/subscirbed to /blog/rss.xml in my domain, you were most probably redirected without noticing it to http://feeds.feedburner.com/nargalzius/nblog

Which brings me to this post; I’ve found a way to track my feed’s activity locally – hence FeedBurner isn’t needed anymore.

While I did delete the FeedBurner account and had it redirect back to my original feed, in case some subscribers still have http://feeds.feedburner.com/nargalzius/nblog as the registered feed address in their respective RSS readers, now would be the perfect time for me to urge everyone to change the feed URL back to http://www.nargalzius.com/blog/rss.xml

And in case any new reader is wondering what RSS is – I’ve discussed [in great length] it here.

Notes

Notes
⇡1 What they call “plugins” for Mint
⇡2 A term I blatantly filched from Mark Gruber of DaringFireball.net
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Thriller!

What if Michael Jackson was Indian.

Now if that doesn’t make you want to stick a fork up your ass, I don’t know what will. I particularly enjoyed one of the comments:

This is stupid… very stupid.

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Little color change

Literally, I changed the color scheme of the site a little. So little, you might even be wondering what the hell I changed.

I dropped the traces of blue (headers, etc.) in favor of green just so it would gel with the rest of site. No, this has nothing to do with the school I’m partial to (come to think of it, i wonder if it was a subliminal action that I started with blue and green as the color combination – which doesn’t make sense design-wise)

Anyways, I had to drop one or the other, and I already had too many green hues in my stylesheet (gradients, the calendar, the alternating table colors), so it made more sense to change the little blues here and there, rather than convert a ton of greens.

I kept the old images though, I could put it back if people say the old style looked better.