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        <title><![CDATA[Thanks for your reply]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I appreciate your prompt reply. I will pass your information along to Elise, the friend from the Civil Hackers' School, who suggested that I look into this possibility.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:35:44 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[RE: Finding a mentor]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Finding a mentor isn't easy. One of three things happens. One, you work for a company that has a formal mentor system (rare). Two, you find one within work, but outside of formal channels, such as an experience co-worker that you can bring problems to, ask questions, etc. Three, you find one outside of work, such as through a local user group, an open source project, etc.Keep in mind that mentoring offers zero rewards other than emotional, and in the case of software development, takes a lot of effort and can be quite frustrating. Not many people are willing to sign up for that kind of relationship. It may take a while. No one mentored me and I don't know of anyone else in this industry who talks of having a mentor in their past either.J.Ja]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Justin James]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 18:41:29 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[A topic for a future blog]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Justin, you may have covered this topic in a past blog, but if not, here's an question. How does a serious student of programming find a mentor who is capable in his or her specific types of programming?I'm currently practicing regularly with a very small SF Chapter of the Civil Hackers' School, which was founded by a man from Moscow (Ilya V Vasilyev) in the 1990s(https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Talk:Civil_Hackers_School). Currently, this group provides me with the social support to keep studying, but those who regularly attend (by irc) are not skilled in my technologies.I'm pretty isolated from people doing the kind of work I'm trying to do. Elise, from the Civil Hackers' School, suggested that finding a mentor might help me accelerate my progress, but I have no idea how to do that.I suspect that other programmers have the experience of finding mentors at key points in their development, but I don't know this to be true. However, if so, I suspect that a blog that draws together the experiences of others would be valuable.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 07:51:02 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Whew!]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-378904-3614213]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[Glad I'm not losing my mind. I do want to thank you (and Ryan Boudreaux ) for the value you give me with your regular blogs. I really don't have time to take courses or study at length, so you help immeasurably in teaching me what I need to learn. I read things like this blog because I'm undertaking a personal project that's way out of my league, using PHP, jQuery, potentially HTML5, and other things that I've encountered for the first time ever in taking on this project. You and Ryan especially have helped me update my knowledge in short, bite-sized pieces that I can fit in around the edges of my life.My &quot;Hello World&quot; application in PHP created a multi-level array, and when I populated the database, I found myself with 715 complex pages, each one with unique CSS flyouts and links to the sources of all the CC pictures I used on 1/3 of the pages. And it's not like I'm overlaying PHP skills on top of other programming languages that I've mastered, because I haven't mastered any programming language yet.I'm currently flummoxed by a jQuery problem that a professional developer could solve with his or her eyes tied behind her back. (I'm trying to create a series of text boxes on a sequential series of layers that will append the contents to a scrollable box at the bottom of the page that is always visible. Easy peasy for anyone but me.) And I literally have  a couple or three hours per week to work on the project.What I learned from this blog for the project is the following: I had an animated gif on one of the layers that I couldn't figure out how to reset it and start it when the layer became visible. So because of this blog by you, I've converted that animated gif to an mpeg, which I believe I can control more easily if I redo my prototype page in HTML5 and use the video tag with a call back from the button that makes the layer visible. I still don't know how to do this, but at least, you've personally given me a direction to explore.So I read blogs like yours to absorb information by osmosis, because I really don't have the time I need for reading all of the books I must read to know what the heck I'm doing. Thank you for what you do.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[cougar.b@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 13:11:59 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[It's NOT your fault!]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The system totally mangled things by doing &quot;smart quotes&quot; on the code in the article!It should be:controls=&quot;&quot;With just two regular quotation marks (empty string).Sorry for the confusion!J.Ja]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Justin James]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 09:07:08 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I guess I'm too much of a newbie...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I did a Google search for &quot;tutorial HTML5 controls false,&quot; and I found an easy way to avoid putting controls on the video using controls=false. I originally wrote that I didn't know what controls=&quot;&quot;&quot; is, but with two sizes of quotation marks. However, in trying to ask the question, this comment box transformed my question to explain that what I was seeing was not what was intended. The original article looks to me like it has three quotes. When I pasted that into this comment box to ask about it, it appeared to become a single double-quote. If it was actually two single quotes, I could understand it, but as it is, I don't understand. I'm sure I'm doing something wrong, here, but that's how it looks, and I'm confused. Sorry to be such a newbie.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 23:28:11 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[apparently so]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[This has been driving me nuts, so I tried on Linux/firefox with user agent switcher, no matter what OS/browser combo I tried these sites simply wouldn't load flash video. I didn't get any error messages.In chromium I got the 'flash is too old' error and on the first try was given the option of 'run flash this time only' which would play the videos. If I chose not to play, no amount of reloading would give me the option to play 'once' until I cleared cookies. Then I booted into the XP and Vista instances on the same 2 computers, made sure IE, the OS and flash were the absolute latest and the same sites still wouldn't play.These are both laptops, but vastly different hardware so I can't imagine that's an issue. I have one more machine to test this on, except there's no windows available on that hdw.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[pgit]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 06:22:44 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I thought it did too...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[... at least that was the case a few months ago, but I *think* this has changed since because I specifically looked for it and couldn't find it... but I may have missed it. That's why I omitted that feature for the article.J.Ja]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Justin James]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 10:01:17 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[It's STILL Flash's problem, most likely]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Believe it or not, that is probably still Flash's mistake. I've seen this many times in the past, where no matter what I did, Flash was still not being shown as the right version... using IE on Windows and once it happened with Chrome or Firefox too. Flash is just buggy!J.Ja]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Justin James]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 10:00:11 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[codecs]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[A SQL back end dev I know was telling me he's used ember (javascript) in his html5 apps to deal with the need to support multiple codecs.http://emberjs.com/Don't ask me  anything about it... all I know is he said ember was a tool from heaven in his dealings with html5.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[pgit]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 06:28:09 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Linux]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Well, they have apparently failed to account for Linux underlying a browser, because I have the very latest flash plugin installed. It's not a noscript issue either, totally disabling it (and even adblock plus for good measure) doesn't rectify it.Maybe they wouldn't hear a complaint about version, but is there possibility a developer would want to know his apps aren't running on Linux?]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[pgit]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 06:18:20 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Multiple Video src supported]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Good explanation of the  tag. Once thing worth noting is that the src attribute supports multiple sources, so you can specify more than one format (i.e. .mp4, .oog). It will sequence through the sources until it finds a supported codec. See http://www.w3schools.com/html5/tag_video.asp for more info..]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[TexasJetter]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 04:43:59 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[No, that's just Flash problems]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[A lot of sites detect the version of Flash and refuse to play it if your Flash plugin is out of date, as a reminder to you to go get the latest version for security reasons, most likely. HTML5 has nothing to do with this. It is a DELIBERATE decision, too, so your feedback probably won't be listened to. J.Ja]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Justin James]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 19:01:44 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA['plugin version too old' errors?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Lately I see increasing numbers of video sites failing (using firefox and konqueror) without any indication of why. If I open the same link in Chromium I get a pop-up header saying the flash plugin is too old, with buttons to either update the plugin (which always fails using Linux) or to ignore the warning and play this video just this one time.I can only watch one video after receiving this pop up, until I log out and back in to the desktop environment.All other browsers just fail to play the video with no indication as to why the frame is blank. There's no runaway process when this happens, nothing seemingly related running that's not responding.Is this html5 related? Bad coding? If so is there some way to provide helpful feedback?]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[pgit]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 18:36:35 -0800</pubDate>
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