Software, Business, and Life
Apr 11 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 [...]
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Mar 15 2007
Google, a mecca for top notch programmers, attracts many top speakers to give talks on (generally) technical topics. They graciously record these talks and upload them to Google Video. You can get a list of most of them by searching video.google.com for “engEDU”. Think of these as virtual user group talks, but usually with bigger [...]
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Jan 09 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 the [...]
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Aug 30 2006
Over at the Wall Street Journal and Micro Persuasion and Computers.net and a bunch of other places, a big deal is being made of the YouTube’s estimated 45 Terabytes worth of video. It is “about 5,000 home computers’ worth”. Ouch, 45 Terabytes! Wow! Or maybe not… consider the mathematics. 45 TB really isn’t all that [...]
Apr 16 2006
I’ve been evaluating Intel’s Integrated Performance Primitives, a set of libraries for low-level signal processing and image manipulation. These appear to be very well engineered at the lowest levels, but the packaging is a mess, as I’ll describe below. The point of these libraries is that they use the various enhanced CPU instruction sets (MMX, [...]
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Mar 31 2006
For a project we have going at Oasis Digital, we have explored various libraries for creating video DVDs from computer-generated content until program/script control. There are quite a few ways to do this; one that is appealing for a command-line junkie is the combination of ffmpeg, dvdauthor, and mkisofs. It took considerable research to figure [...]
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