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Skinny daemons

For the past several months, we’ve been having a lot of fun writing a series of small, self-contained web apps – branston, enigmamachine, octopus, and adhd, among others. One of the things I’ve been most enjoying is how easy we’ve … Continue reading

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Enigmamachine – now with callbacks

Yesterday we added optional callbacks to the Enigmamachine. The basic usage flow is now: your web app gets a video upload, including a callback URL your web app tells Enigmamachine to encode the video Enigmamachine encodes the video Enigmamachine sends … Continue reading

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Enigmamachine – first working release

I’ve just put the finishing touches on the first working release of Enigmamachine.  It’s a RESTful video encoder written in Ruby.  It uses the thin webserver, eventmachine event framework, sinatra web framework, and datamapper ORM. There’s a lot more info … Continue reading

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Ruby Procs and Eventmachine callbacks

For the last little while, I’ve been messing around to see whether I can whip off a video-encoding server which is easily installable. It’s put together using Sinatra, Thin, and Eventmachine (three of my favourite Ruby libraries lately). At the … Continue reading

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