YAY!MEDIA
Last night of one of our production Wowza Media Servers started to produce error messages where it couldn’t copy media files it was recording from its content directory to an S3FS mount that we use to mirror the files onto Amazon S3. At first glance I couldn’t see what the …
I’ve been using Underscore in a Node project recently, and it’s proved to be very handy indeed, with its powerful Array and Object manipulation tools. Although its focus is working with jQuery and Backbone in the browser, I wanted to get it working in a Titanium project. There’s a video on the …
I was sorry to hear about TweetDeck being retired in some of its existing forms today, but most of all it’s sad to finally see the AIR version officially go down the dumper. When I first started working with Adobe AIR it was TweetDeck that inspired me to start writing …
In the process of writing a Titanium Basic Auth process I ran across this issue: if you have to encode long strings in the Authorization header using the built-in Ti.base64encode() method, you will find that auth fails. After checking the strings passed via the Charles Web Debugger I found this …
Willow for Wowza is a new server-monitoring tool created by Solid Thinking Interactive and written in Flex. It provides a live view onto one or more Wowza servers with information such as running instances, bandwidth, connected clients, memory/heap usage and streams data. Wowza already supported the JMX standard but I’ve …
If, like me, you don’t always use the Titanium KitchenSink (you should), you might hit an issue whereby when you try to perform a HTTPS basic auth process things fail silently, at least as far as your onload() method is concerned. The reason is that Titanium.Network.HTTPClient doesn’t register a 401 …
I had the opportunity to debate via Twitter last night with Daring Fireball’s John Gruber after I tweeted an observation that he posts frequent updates because he’s annoyed. John opted to respond this time (I’ve posted plenty of responses before without a bite) and we had a brief discussion about …
Welcome to the all-new YAY!MEDIA site and blog. I’ve decided it was time to move away from our old site and make something simpler and more accessible. This is the result, hope you like it. Our new site is hosted on Linode, which so far seems excellent. Thanks to Simon …
The BBC is running an article today on Webinos, a collaboration between 22 organisations including W3C, mobile service providers, Sony Ericsson and Samsung, and a few academic institutions. It’s got some serious EU funding (€10M). The vision is developing for a single virtual device by providing extension APIs for different …
Recently I’ve been working on a side-project with Warwick Manufacturing Group to create a simple research-gathering application, using Flex. The application work itself isn’t anything clever, just some video/audio and basic data collection, but the research project is quite interesting – electric vehicles don’t make a lot of sound, and …