Introducing OpenOB
The next post will be part 3 of my Engineering FM series but it’s time for a quick diversion to introduce a tool I ended up producing, initially as a contingency plan, but later as a serious project, for implementing outside broadcast audio links and studio-transmitter links using the Real Time Protocol. That tool is [...]
Serializing and scoping Mongoid criteria
So, while working on a project, I ran into a snag. I’ve got a partial which renders a list of images, and I want that partial to be auto-updated. That partial is used in multiple controllers and actions and is passed lots of different arbitrary data sets. How do you manage auto-updating that partial, and [...]
Perceptual image and audio deduplication
Okay, two months without a post, won’t happen again… So, lately I’ve been moving out from the broadcast area and getting back into webapp development, but some of the things I’ve been working on touch quite heavily on deduplication, of images and music. This is quite an interesting topic, so let’s have a look at [...]