As I continue to work on the client and the server almost concurently, it occurs to me that the design is flawed.I’m grabbing info from a webpage and displaying it in a tree, Why…The whole purpose for the client is to be able to launch external applications like vlc and mplayer without having to resort […]
Here’s a screenshot of the prototype client, running inside netbeans for now. notice the bonjour tab , which displays discovered mediabridges on your network.
yes , that is the windows xp version of netbeans running the client inside of parallels desktop for mac virtual pc. A great way to do dual platfrom development.
The server is running […]
They say a magician never reveals their secrets. Well not only I’m I going to reveal how to build a client , but we will post detail instructions on the wiki soon. To create a client to work with the bridge. Pick a language, Java is a good choice. But you can use actionscript (flash), […]
Well its been a surprising productive week.. guess I felt inspired. or creative or something. Continuing to work on the alpha of the server, still a bit unstable and not deployed outside the netbeans ide, but looking good for an after christmas release . (of the alpha that is). Made a slight change to advertise […]
Managed to work our way through the sourceforge UI doc, not really that difficult but a little strange if your new to sourceforge and don’t want to read through all the documentation. BTW is very good.
Uploaded the test classes for getting content from the media server . The ones we talk about on the wiki […]
Finally the busy work is out of the way. We finally have the website and wiki up and running, it took a lot longer than expected. Now we can get back to coding on the server and the clients.
I’ve been thinking about the goals of this project. Of course the main deliverable is the mediabridge […]