Sevenwire

On2/Zencoder partner to deliver video transcoding service in early 2009

2008-11-06T08:20:22-06:00

We will be integrating On2's Flix Engine video encoding software with the Zencoder video transcoding system to create a web-based service.

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We're Hiring

2009-11-05T11:26:14-06:00

We are looking for a junior rails developer to join our team at Sevenwire.

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Ruby EE, Passenger, and Gems

2009-06-06T12:56:43-05:00

The combination of Ruby Enterprise Edition and Passenger is fantastic for hosting Rack-based applications. However, when you forget to install Ruby EE on the server, realize the mistake, and try to rectify the situation: don't forget about your gems.

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Flix Cloud Enters Public Beta

2009-03-17T11:46:13-05:00

After months of hard work, Flix Cloud enters public beta today. Not only that, but Zencoder 2.0 is right around the corner now.

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Adobe Air: Opening External Links in Another Browser

2009-08-26T18:55:30-05:00

A quick code snipped that allows you to open a URL in another browser from an AIR application.

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Standards and Abstractions Speed Development

2009-01-25T22:46:46-06:00

Code quality and development speed are usually in opposition. One of the things that drew me to Ruby on Rails development was the focus on development speed without compromising quality. The primary means of achieving this veritable panacea is by making decisions once, abstracting the principles, and then layering with convention. Rails has done this well. However, in our own application development it oftentimes feels like we're reinventing the wheel every time we start a new project. Sounds to me like it's time to do some abstractions of our own...

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Mac OS X Spaces Winning Strategy

2008-12-28T12:55:11-06:00

Spaces in Mac OS X Leopard has had a big impact on my daily workflow. My latest strategy is to use all 16 spaces, and only one app per space. With a few extra tricks, it's made my desktop area much more clean and organized.

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Introducing DbBranch

2008-12-03T16:21:59-06:00

DbBranch is a Rails plugin that helps your application to play nice with git branching and databases. It will load a branch-specific database YAML file allowing you to migrate in branches without affecting the databases of other branches.

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Mass-Assignment Is Going to Bite You

2008-11-20T09:00:14-06:00

In Rails, attributes= is the main method used for mass-assignment. attributes= is used behind the scenes by others like new, create, and update_attributes as well. Unless you're protecting your model's attributes in some way, your application is vulnerable to a mass-assignment attack. When you get bitten it's going to hurt!

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RESTful CSS on Digital-Web Magazine

2008-11-20T11:40:57-06:00

Steve's RESTful CSS article has been published by Digital-Web Magazine.

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Notifly Makes List of 15 Amazing Rails Rumble Web Applications

2008-11-11T16:06:18-06:00

Just today we noticed that we made the list of 15 amazing web apps built in 48 hours on Network World at #14. Not too bad! Be sure to check out that article and digg it if you are so inclined.

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Ultraviolet Syntax Highlighting on OS X

2008-11-10T16:41:20-06:00

We love TextMate. Ultraviolet is a syntax highlighting engine based on TextMate's language definition files. We want to post code excerpts on this blog from time to time and Ultraviolet seems like a good fit. Unfortunately, it's not as easy as "gem install ultraviolet" this time. Read on to get it set up.

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An end to bad passwords

2008-08-13T17:19:22-05:00

It’s not hard to devise a memorable system for creating passwords. We call it an algorithm, but it’s not that scary. Really. All it takes is some simple word association and remembering a few transformations to arrive at a unique and secure password. Stick with us and we’ll give you some ideas that you can use to create your own password algorithm.

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