Just to let you know. I had to update Media Converter to work with the recent changes of Youtube. So most of the Youtube problems should now be fixed!
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Pascal
Hi everyone
Yes, it has been a long long time ago since my last post here. I am quite busy with my part-time study and therefore my spare time is limited.
I just fixed a problem with Firefox 4 as the wizard did not load in this browser.
There is also some other good news. I am developing a new version of mediaconverter.org as this one is almost three years old! Things have changed and are outdated now.
The goals for the next version are more simplicity, better error handling and so on. I will drop some features as well. I will no longer support some of the current websites as it is almost impossible to keep them working all the time. I will definitely focus on the Youtube implementation. Users will then be able to grab the HD vids not just the standard quality.
All right, stay tuned! I will keep you up to date.
Best regards
Pascal
Have you ever had the problem that IE (most often in IE6, IE7 and even in IE8) or other browsers just didn’t redraw the content? This happens quite often when CSS properties get changed via JavaScript. There are already some solutions available to solve this problem but most of them just don’t work properly. I’m now going to show you the way it works most often and a solution which I found myself.
Read more…
Becoming-green.ch is another project where I was involved. I was responsible for the complete implementation.
The frontend is written in JavaScript (jQuery), CSS/HTML and the backend is based on Python (Django).
The project leader was Michael Häne who also created the cool design. Thanks for the great collaboration!
Again a new website went online where I was involved. This time I was responsible for the frontend development (HTML, CSS, JS, XML, JSON and so on) of the brand new Swiss Re website.
Thanks to the team of JVM and Clickability for the great collaboration!
You can read the full press release (german) here.
There was again a little change so the Youtube conversions didn’t work. I fixed it again and now I hope it will work for a bit longer than a few hours 
I’m really sorry for the inconveniences.
And by the way .. happy Easter!
Kind regards
Pascal
Hello everyone
Youtube has changed the layout again. So the Youtube conversion didn’t work properly.
It now works again for non adult and public videos which are available in all countries.
Probably it may never be possible again to download adult protected content (for premium users) as they now ask for a captcha image while logging in.
I’ll try to find a solution for the country limitation problem as soon as possible. I may have to install proxies around the world … a lot of work ..
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Pascal
The new version of laax.com is now online. After countless hours of hard work the team of Assai Dialog + Digital AG, including my humble self, has finished the website for the Swiss skiresort Laax.
Have a look and get impressed by this multimedia monster 
Recently I was asked to create the website for the One Minute of Silence for Haiti campaign in collaboration with Universal Music and JVM.
There you can buy “One Minute of Silence for Haiti” in your favorite online music shop. All proceeds go to Caritas for long-term redevelopment of the country.
http://www.oneminuteofsilence.org/
Facebook group: http://www.facebook.com/pages/ONE-MINUTE-OF-SILENCE-FOR-HAITI/431755455537
Thank you!
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Somewhen every frontend developer will be faced with the problem that you cannot stretch a background image to 100% height and width by default (except CSS3 compatible browsers). This is very annoying if the background image contains a gradient or something else which can not be repeated. Now I will show you how to realize such a solution with min-height and min-width support which works in all browsers (IE6, IE7, IE8, Safari, Chrome, Firefox and Opera). Read more…