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Today I had another breakthrough in my implementation of Podcast Producer 2, a core part of Snow Leopard Server. As noted in my previous posts, PP2 is “still a work in progress,” but it is also a vast improvement in many ways over my previous video transcoding system based on ffmpeg and Drupal. [...]

In my last post, I wrote about my experiences with Podcast Producer 2: the good, the bad and the downright ugly. Well, I had a bit of a breakthrough today in getting Podcast Producer 2 to “play nice with Windows,” so I’m posting my “new and improved” workaround.
As I described earlier, the main problem [...]

I was eager to install Snow Leopard (SL) Server on the Mac OS X server I manage at work, primarily because of Podcast Producer 2 (PP2). This component of SL Server represents a major advance in functionality over the first version of Podcast Producer, which was introduced in Leopard Server. Unfortunately, after creating [...]

Today I noticed something strange while backing up the database from another website I manage, ComWiki. The database backup took much longer than usual, and I was surprised when the size of the backup started to go over a gigabyte. Either someone had been adding lots of pages to the wiki, or something [...]

Since I’ve been twittering a bit more lately, I decided to finally add a twitter widget to my blog. You’ll see it at the top of the right column, at least for now. It does require Flash 9, so I may need to tweak it a bit if it doesn’t degrade gracefully to [...]

So I finally had to buy an iPhone 3G.  I had talked about why I didn’t buy a first generation iPhone in an earlier post, and I’m glad I waited.  The iPhone 3G was truly worth the wait. 
I had wanted to get one of these phones back in July.  After standing in line for two [...]

Another day, another try with blogging on the iPod Touch. One nice feature of the wordpress iPhone blogging tool is the ability to store local drafts of posts. So while it takes longer to type an entry, one can take a break, save the local draft, and return to writing later.
The onscreen keyboard takes some [...]