Our new startup, Media Browser
4 days ago
After a lot of thought and research I have decided to see if we can make a business out of Media Browser.
Media Browser / Video Browser has always been free as-in-beer and free as-in-speech.
Will it remain free?
Media Browser repository is now on Github
about 1 month ago
Upcoming features for Media Browser
about 1 month ago
Media Browser source code license changes
2 months ago
We just changed the way our source code is licensed, this post covers the reasons and details of the changes.
Refactoring media browser - entity resolution
3 months ago
I am going to try to post a little bit about my adventures refactoring Media Browser. In this post I am covering a some aspects of entity resolution.
Simpler debugging of Vista Media Center plugins
5 months ago
In this post I offer a streamlined mechanism for debugging Vista Media Center plugins in Visual Studio.
Slow response-time is usabilitie's alcholism
5 months ago
For the last few weeks I have been forced to use a very slow website. This has left me feeling very demoralized. This is why.
My server just died, long live my new VPS
6 months ago
Earlier this week I lost my old trusty server which hosts www.samsaffron.com and www.mediabrowser.tv died.
I decided to migrate all the data to a new VPS (virtual private server), here is a sketchy account of how this all happened.
Deadlocked
10 months ago
In SQL Server a SELECT statement can deadlock against an UPDATE statement without being in a transaction. Why does this happens? What is a good approach to SQL Server deadlocks?
SSH Jumphosts tunneling and other curiosities
about 1 year ago
Recently, I had to support a rails server which is deep behind a firewall. Here I offer a somewhat sketchy account of how I am able to support it.
Video Browser: Past, Present and Future.
about 1 year ago
Running IE6 on Windows Vista
about 1 year ago
Speed up your feed generation in Rails
about 1 year ago
In general when generating rss feed in Rails you will be using the builder library, it can be fairly slow unless you take special care.
You should be very careful when using ActiveRecord eager loading
about 1 year ago
Watch out when you use ActiveRecord eager loading, it has the potential to wreak havoc if you are not careful.
I fixed up Video Browsers sort by date
about 1 year ago
Genre and runtime sort options for Video Browser
about 1 year ago
I just posted a new version of Video Browser that support “by genre” and “by runtime” sort options for movies.
A cleaner way to iterate through Enumerable lists in Prototype
about 1 year ago
Yet another way to enumerate through Enumerables if you are using the prototype javascript library.
Redo your migrations in Rails and keep your data
about 1 year ago
On Rails, I find myself quite often fixing up an old migration early in my projects, at this point I already have a bunch of data in my database and I would like to keep it.
So I created a Rake task that takes care of this.
A few new features for Video Browser
about 1 year ago
Getting started with Ruby On Rails on Windows
about 1 year ago
In this post I would like to give you all the information you need to get started with Ruby On Rails, on Windows. I will cover the tools you need, the resources you need and some tips.
Why the hell write yet another blog engine?
about 1 year ago
Writing your own blog software is an ideal first exercise when faced with learning a new web platform.
Hello World
about 1 year ago
At last, after months of procrastination, I decided to re-write my blog.
This post contains a list of software that made this blog happen.
A new version of Video Browser for Vista MCE
about 1 year ago
Video browser, is a little plugin for Vista MCE that let’s you browse your videos the way they were meant to be browsed.
Video Browser for Vista MCE
about 1 year ago
Goodbye Altiris
about 1 year ago
IDisposable in Ruby
about 1 year ago
An example implementation of the IDisposable pattern in the Ruby language.
It looks much nicer in Ruby.
Insert or Update pattern for Sql Server
over 2 years ago
Implementing the UPSERT (insert or update) pattern in MS SQL Server can be tricky. In this post I explore the various advantages and disadvantages of various implementations.
Keep it simple
over 2 years ago