Archive for the 'audio' Category

Become a Better Speaker for $100

Saturday, November 3rd, 2007

The title of this post is a lie. It costs $70 or less, but takes a lot of work. I’ve offered this advice person-to-person many times, and finally got around to posting it.
How well you speak can have a great impact on  your ability to get customers, to attract employees, to persuade others to adopt […]

Pipe RGB data to ffmpeg

Thursday, July 5th, 2007

A while back I asked on the ffmpeg mailing list, how to pipe RGB data in to ffmpeg. I described it as follows:
in my code I am building video frames, 720×480×24bit. I have in mind generating a large number of these, as long as a full DVD worth at 30fps, then using ffmpeg (followed by […]

Selling your Software as a Service: Notes and Audio

Thursday, May 10th, 2007

At the St. Louis Code Camp on May 5, 2007, I gave a talk on Selling Your Software as a Service, in which I discussed our experiences selling a complex (Java) “enterprise” application in that manner. The room was much more crowded than I expected, it was exciting to have an eager group. As with […]

High Quality Screen Recordings

Wednesday, April 11th, 2007

At Oasis Digital we’ve found that we can communicate effectively with each other and with customers, across time and space, using screen + audio recording (also called screencasts or screen videos). We use these to demonstrate a new feature, to explain how code works, to described how a new feature should work, etc. The communication […]

Ruby GUI Toolkit Talk: Notes and Audio

Saturday, March 31st, 2007

On March 27th I gave a talk at the St. Louis Ruby User Group about Ruby GUI Toolkits. As with my last few talks, there were no slides, but rather a handout. The original handout fit tightly on a single, two-sided printed page; I’ve expanded the materials slightly and pasted them here.
I also recorded […]

I have seen the future, and it runs OSX

Tuesday, January 9th, 2007

iPhone: Wow

It’s a phone. It’s a PDA. It’s an iPod. It’s a widescreen video iPod. It has zero physical buttons, rather the whole front is a multi-touch-screen. I’ll leave the rest of the raving to the many other sites doing a great job of that.
The real innovation of this new device is […]