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 [...]
IRIS – The Interchangeable Radio Ingest System
Well, wow. After nearly forgetting to actually submit it and only writing the entry a few hours before the deadline, it turns out that the system I made while at Insanity Radio 1287AM has been nominated for the Best Technical Achievement award at the Student Radio Awards. So, I figured it would be worth actually [...]