A new bugfix release of Flash Uploader is available now for download at:

www.solmetra.com/uploader

The following issues has been corrected:

• Fixed problem where Flash Player was throwing out timeout errors
• Fixed problem where only the first selected file was displayed and all subsequent files were ignored
• Improved file-upload error handling (added error key to uploaded file data)

After some minor testing we can conclude that SPAW Editor seems to work pretty fine for the most part with newly released Google Chrome browser.

The browser is currently detected and handled as it was Safari since it includes the matching substring in it’s USER_AGENT value:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US) AppleWebKit/525.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/0.2.149.27 Safari/525.13

We will be making necessary changes in the future in case there’s a need to support Chrome individually, but for now it seems to be quite usable as it is.

Make sure you are running SPAW Editor v.2.0.5 or newer if you care about Chrome support.

We are proud to announce the release of our new product aimed at web developers — Flash Uploader.

It’s a highly customizable Flash-based control that replaces stagnant HTML’s <file> tag. It not only displays neat progress bar — a feature lacking in <file> tag — but also provides some pretty neat upload security features and client-side restrictions (i.e. file size and type) as well as JavaScript API.

Give it a try and let us know what you think. Oh, and it’s free!

Recently I’ve been working on a product called “ASP.NET Controls for amCharts“. For those who don’t know - amCharts is the best interactive web charting software available and ASP.NET Controls for amCharts make it easier to generate and customize the charts from ASP.NET/Visual Studio.

Today we have finally released version 1.0 of the controls.

Download ASP.NET controls for amCharts.

I’ve written a post in my personal blog about a way to ease ASP.NET control development using Express editions of Visual Studio.

Check it out if you this is something you are interested in. And don’t forget to “kick it” if you like it

Hi there!

We’ve just launched our newest online service - Knotler.com. It’s an innovative approach to a hundred years old issue - personal shopping list management. We’ve employed AJAX to make creation of your shopping lists easy, fast and hassle-free. We’ve also made sure your lists are available through vast array of mobile devices and interfaces, including iGoogle, mobile phones, PDAs, even legacy WAP browsers. Why? Because writing on paper sucks!

Each list can be collectively edited by many persons simultaneously. Without any registrations, email, and all unnecessary BS. Yes yes - we’re aware that your wife can add those damn cosmetics for you to pick up on your way home while simultaneously removing your six-packs. We’re working on it

Give it a spin and let us know what you think. It’s free. And you know it’s cool because it has a BETA sign…

P.S. What the name Knotler means? No f***** idea.

Apple has released a public beta version of Safari 3 for Windows. This brings us one more step closer to SPAW Editor working in Safari.

I’ve used Windows Liver Writer Beta 1 to post to this blog and to my personal blog too. Now Beta 2 came out and it has new features, looks better, etc. One of the new features is “inline spell checking”. They even removed spellckecking toolbar button and menu item in favor of this automatic inline checking. There’s only one little problem though: it looks like this inline spell checking only works on Windows with English locale and since there’s no button for manual spellchecking all the world outside of US, UK and few other countries is f*cked (excuse my spelling)

Our friend at amCharts.com has just released his second chart control in his collection of the beautiful eye-candy flash charts: Line & Area Chart

You can use these charts in conjunction with any server-side technology. You just have to output the values in XML or CSV formats. And best of all you can use fully functional version of the beauty absolutely free of charge (if you don’t mind a small link back to amCharts.com).

In addition to Line & Area Chart there’s also a Pie & Donut Chart which is as beautiful and as versatile as this one.

You can also help spread the word about amCharts by posting a link on your site, blog or forum and by digging this post on Digg.com

While developing SPAW v.2 I’ve managed to write some JavaScript code that crashes Firefox (both 1.5 and 2.0) with 100% probability. I would like to submit the bug to bugzilla but I can’t reproduce it in a simple test script and submitting the whole SPAW v.2 code would be a little to much.