I was searching for a way to bulk convert a bunch of mp4 video files to mp3 audio files. I came across a number of things online and put them together to this one command line that can be run in Linux bash. I really just didn’t want to forget the command so I decided [...]
Archive for the ‘Code’ Category
Looters, Project Updates, SVG and Adobe Air
January 25th, 2011
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I’ve been hard at work on a few projects in my spare time, but no excuses for the lack of recent posts. I’ve been concurrently reading both No More Mondays by Dan Miller and Atlus Shrugged by Ayn Rand. While one is fiction and the other is not, they both ironically (and unintentionally) share a [...]
Turn Tweets Into a PDF
December 24th, 2010
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Last night I tried my hand with Google’s app engine. In short, I totally dig it. I figured I’d try to make a very simple app that turned recent Twitter stream posts from a user into a PDF file. It was fun, it was stunningly easy and the Python MVC framework that the Google Apps [...]
PlayBook Dev – Blitting with Copy Pixels Does Not Draw When App is in Background
November 21st, 2010
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Thought I’d share this. I’m using the CopyPixels ActionScript method to blit images to the screen for animation. In this sample, notice how the CopyPixels method doesn’t update the sprite when the app is pushed into the background. This is unlike some of the device demos where we see movie footage continuing to run when [...]
10 Tips for Developing for the BlackBerry PlayBook
November 15th, 2010
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So it’s been a couple of weeks now since RIM unleashed the PlayBook development SDK and simulator. I thought I’d share some of the things that I’ve experienced – issues, tips, etc in a quick blog post. Flex Builder 4.0 isn’t going to cut it. You need to download the 4.1 update in order to [...]
Hosting mp3′s and a FLASH mp3 Player on Your Website for FREE
September 21st, 2010
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For one of my new WordPress blogs, I had some sound bites to post. I wanted a simple minimalist FLASH based mp3 player on the post and the audio files were nearly 10 minutes each. I’m on Dreamhost with the crazy insane unlimited everything plan, but with a few people listening to the audio clips [...]
Twitter oAuth in .Net without Web Login
July 18th, 2010
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I was interested in getting a Twitter App together to orchestrate some follows and unfollows and user searches for a personal project. In the past, I’ve used Twitter’s Basic Authentication API to get my Twitter feed, but according to the Twitter API documentation, Basic Auth is going to be unsupported in August of this year. [...]
