ANN: Hinduism Today Digital Edition Upgrade

[Jim Carwardine]

Thanks, Andre... Jim


on 12/21/07 4:18 PM, Andre Garzia wrote:

> Hello Jim,
> 
> Check out http://www.himalayanacademy.com/resources/lexicon for a nice
> Runtime Revolution Web Application that we built! It's all Revolution
> + AJAX Techniques. Try searching for 'Karma'... :D
> 
> Cheers
> andre
> 
> On 12/21/07, Jim Carwardine <jim at oyfconsulting.com> wrote:
>> Hi Sivakatirswami ... Just to confirm, when I go to your web site, is that
>> all done in Rev as well?... Jim
>> 
>> 
>> on 12/21/07 3:46 PM, Sivakatirswami wrote:
>> 
>>> Thanks to the hard work of Andre Garzia we are able to present an
>>> upgrade to the Hinduism Today Digital Edition. Go here to subscribe.
>>> 
>>> http://www.hinduismtoday.com/digital/
>>> 
>>> If you have already subscribed, just boot up and you will be prompted to
>>> upgrade.
>>> 
>>> Those of you familiar with this app know that it is a simple, client
>>> side, PDF content manager. But, with the latest upgrade, Andre has built
>>> a pretty nifty media content viewer.   All I did was work with the
>>> presentation layer... he did the rest.
>>> 
>>> Though Andre likes to tell me he feels like a child when he looks at the
>>> code of the Rev Giants like Ken Ray and Richard Gaskin and all the
>>> "Elder Wizards of xTalk" I think he did a really good job on this.
>>> 
>>> Download and install, and then click on the button "View Multimedia"
>>> 
>>> Thanks to Ken Ray for his xml lib, to Chipp and Chris at Altuit for
>>> RevBrowser and altSplash and Revolution team in Scotland and to this
>>> whole community for being such a great support group.
>>> 
>>> Frankly I was a bit worried that to overcome the problems with the Rev
>>> Player object playing remote URLs that switching to Revbrowser was going
>>> to add more complexity to the whole framework and not necessarily get us
>>> anything but more problems: I was wrong!
>>> 
>>> We are getting reports now from people in Adelaide Australia and Mumbai
>>> in India where they are able to stream media in our media viewer from
>>> the web server in San Franscisco (and we are not using QT streaming...
>>> just Fast Start Headers)  through the Rev browser window on the craziest
>>> of connections (wireless in Adelaide coming in on DSL to the house and
>>> then from a wireless transpoder to the laptop anywhere in the house) and
>>> also on a cellular modem in Mumbai.
>>> 
>>> Of course I'm sure that the  UI could use a lot of improvement, I'm not
>>> a professional...but the bottom line on the technology is: Revolution +
>>> libURL + Rev Browser  + Rev CGI talking to PostGreSql on a linux
>>> Webserver  is a rock solid framework. I am sooooo happy!
>>> 
>>> Lord Ganesha could not have given me a better Winter Solstice Holiday
>>> gift than what Andre has delivered.
>>> 
>>> Please feel free to send any thoughts you have for improvements etc to
>>> both of us, all constructive insights welcome!
>>> 
>>> Happy Solstice at this auspicious time when Sun moves from Dakshinayne
>>> to Uttarayane (goes north) today...
>>> 
>>> Cheers from Kauai
>>> 
>>> Sivakatirswami
>>> www.himalayanacademy.com
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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>> 
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Jim Carwardine,
President & CEO
OYF Consulting
Ph. 902.823.2339 / 866.601.2339
Fx. 902.823-2139
<www.StrategicDoing.com>

StrategicDoing: Execution depends on employees.
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