I’m working on getting our Rails-based app, at work (OBT – obtech.net), working with SSL.
Since we all use OSX as our main dev boxen here, as well as Gentoo Linux machines, I long ago started hacking and helping on the Gentoo-Alt Prefix Portage project, so that I could help create one software repository we all [...]
I spent much to much time trying to figure out the right combination of video/audio encodings that would would from an RTSP streaming server (went with a RealServer demo, for now) to a variety of clients (QuickTime Player, VLC, various phones, etceteras.)
First, VLC is a champ. Every time I tried a new streaming server, [...]
I’m importing a (so-called) “legacy” db, and was having some issues with creating associations because the primary key wasn’t named id. To fix this, simply use set_primary_key on the class, and then use foreign_key to create associations between classes as usual.
class LegacyDatabaseTable < ActiveRecord::Base
set_primary_key :this_is_not_named_id
# …
end
Even though I’m a self-admitted hinduphile, and am — at best — a student of traditional ashtanga yoga (yeah, the 8-limbed tree / 8-fold path, not “power yoga”), I’ve never been a big believer of kundalini, that is: the flow of spiritual energy back up the spine; the spine often symbolized as a serpent, and [...]
I should right a whole post about the lack of robust video streaming servers, but I’ll save that for another day. For now, I’ve settled on RealServer (RS) (which is the commercialized version of Real’s open source Helix Server), and video actually streams to a plethora of apps, including: QuickTime Player (QT), VideoLan Client [...]
My cat destroyed my old pharmacist-style lamp last week. I decided to replace it with a floor standing lamp with shelves.
… I give it a week before the cat destroys this one, too.
Somehow, my MBP’s install is messed up, and the built-in iSight camera cannot be read from in video mode — but yet, still pictures work. I discovered this, as I could not get QuickTime Broadcaster’s preview view to show any video (or for it to broadcast). Then, I discovered that iChat cannot initiate [...]
I’m trying to once again actually use my blog. There’s so many exciting things going on related to work and life that I feel I need to talk about it. And about work …