Show Play Icon on Mouse over Thumbnail using CSS
I decided to share a simple trick on how to display a "Play" image when mouse is hovered over a video Thumbnail using only CSS. (Sites like Metacafe and similar ones have this feature). Its very easy to implement.
At first, lets declare a simple CSS class for a thumbnail inside an anchor Tag.
jImdb: jQuery Imdb Grabber Plugin
This jQuery Plugin (jimdb) allows you to Grab Movie Details from an IMDB Webpage very easily.
Displaying Star Rating using CSS Sprites
Recently, I have been working on an Application which involved rating system. There are 2 cases where we would want to show the ratings of a content to the viewer. On 1st case, we would just want to display the list of contents (videos, blogs etc.) with its rating (just displayed) to the viewer. On another case, we would show the rating and also allow viewer to interact and rate the content. There are already several blogs relating to 2nd case (CSS Star Rating), so, I will only discuss the 1st case.
Akamai CDN: Getting RTMP URL From XML File
Where I work, my company uses Akamai as the CDN for all properties. Initially our company used non-RTMP downloadable URL from Akamai, but, later after some struggling (in May 2008 or so) I was able to figure out how to extract RTMP from Akamai's XML File.
IMDB Details Grabber: Using PHP DOM XPath to extract Movie details
Recently, a friend of mine asked me if there's an IMDB Parser that allows to fetch information about any Movie on IMDB. Unfortunately, IMDB does not offer an API, so , after doing a bit googling I found a couple of nice IMDB Grabbers (PHP IMDB Grabber, PHP Classes IMDB), despite both being very good ones, I decided develop my own class. It will rely on XPath, and it would also allow developers to extract additional information easily without writing much more code.
