This company Laszlo Systems has recently open-sourced their development platform for “rich-client” web apps in Flash. They’ve got a bunch of demos, plus a page full of free apps that you can include on your own page or blog (free because they include advertising, namely, a link back to Laszlo).
So, by way of testing, here’s one of their demo apps (assuming it still works in the morning :). This should be showing our local weather by default, but you can set it to show yours instead.
lzEmbed({url: 'http://www.mylaszlo.com/lps-2.1.2/showcase/weatherblox/weatherblox.lzx?lzt=swf&zip=52317', bgcolor: '#ffffff', width: '180', height: '315'});
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I’ve had a couple of requests recently to put up some pictures of the house, and here one finally is:
Click on over to my Flickr photostream to see some more, including some pics of Daphne in the front yard doing her best tomboy impersonation (not her fault if her dad dressed her funny).
For those of you having trouble printing from Flickr pages - you need to click the button next to the picture that says “All sizes”, then pick a size (you probably want the big one, for printing) and from there you can print it or save it locally.
Flickr has finally started selling their Pro accounts after months of beta-testing. They are keeping the free “basic” accounts around, though. I like Flickr a lot; I think it is a really cool toolset that keeps getting cooler as they add new features, but I’m not sure I want to pay $60/year for a Pro account. I don’t know that I’d get my money’s worth, frankly. (Yes, I know that they’re offering a less-than-$60 deal for early adopters.)
The restrictions on the free account are:
- No more than 10MB of pictures uploaded per month (a little restrictive for me, but not a huge problem)
- Pictures you upload stick around for only 3 months, unless they’ve been specifically blogged, like the one above (this is a big deal to me!)
The Pro account keeps your uploaded photos around forever, and it allows you to upload 1 GB of pictures per month. This is unbelievably cool for the serious photo enthusiast, but it’s total overkill for someone like me. Does there really have to be fully two orders-of-magnitude difference between the free and Pro versions?
Here’s hoping that some future pricing revision includes something in the middle. I’d happily pay $30/year for 100MB/month.
In other news, Daphne, who was in a terrible, screeching mood all last week, for reasons we couldn’t entirely figure out, was an absolute angel today, despite having slept poorly last night. Go figure. When she’s a happy girl, she’s a happy girl.
She’s started pointing out the color of everything around her — with about a 20% hit rate. If she doesn’t know what color it is, it’s RED!
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