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Facebook and why your organization should be ignoring it

By James Harrison on September 27, 2011

There’s a huge amount of talk out there about how best to use Facebook as an organization. How you can generate massive amounts of publicity and interest, capture new users and visitors, and maximize engagement. All those silken terms that sales and marketing people love to liberally spray all over their presentations. Well, this is [...]

Posted in Odds and Ends, Politics and Organizations | Tagged email, facebook, infrastructure, privacy, rhul, security, social media, surhul, twitter | 1 Response

TV on a budget – rolling your own RTMP

By James Harrison on September 27, 2011

So, having moved on from my work at Insanity Radio attempting to build a professional-quality radio station, I’m now going into building a professional quality TV station from the ground up. Trouble is, there is literally no budget (yet, at least), but we wanted to cover events during the Fresher’s Week here at Royal Holloway. [...]

Posted in Code Snippets and Examples, Programming, Servers and Software, Video | Tagged aac, dvcam, dvgrab, encoding, ffmpeg, h264, lightworks, mp3, rhul, surhul, tv, video, vp8

Django – a flying visit

By James Harrison on August 20, 2011

So rather jokingly the other day I asked where the London Hackspace jobs board was, and 20 minutes later I’d decided to make it. I needed a little project as a break from the main commercial app I’m working on, which for the last week has involved staring at some rather involved postfix/mailer code. As [...]

Posted in Programming, Rails | Tagged comparison, django, python, rails, review, ruby
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