It’s been a while since I’ve done any serious new work in Java, but today I needed to create a custom Wowza Streaming Engine (nee Wowza Media Server) plugin for Civico. While doing so, I decided to up my Java game a little
At Civico, we’ve been having all kinds of issues with the commonly available video players, and as a video streaming company, that’s really bad news. These experiences, plus some future requirements that none of the standard players support, means I had to write our own video player. This meant JavaScript – lots and lots of …
(I offered to write an entry for the Catalyst Advent Calendar based on a private wiki article I use, and wanted to break the 600+ day blogging dry spell!) Web user interfaces have come a long way since the original publish/view model of the Internet – these days, people expect interactivity and interfaces that let …
I’ve actually been getting my hands dirty with code again this week – both my existing Catalyst based apps are working fine, so just to keep things interesting I’ve got another two apps as work-in-progress and refactoring the existing ones for translations.
Okay, this one should have happened a couple of weeks ago, but last-minute snags and a lot of other work delayed things slightly.
Something strange has been happening to my Catalyst applications – they’ve been running fine (more than fine, actually), but every 7 days or so, the FastCGI server seems to lock up. I’m not sure where the failure is ATM, but the apps need to be available all of the time, so they need monitoring and …
Just a quick update for now – I’ve managed to book myself up quite fully.
Last Friday, I took my first Catalyst application live. It was a particularly tense time – this was a live, public facing release of a completely new server stack. The short version: Catalyst rocks!
I work in Perl – a lot. As a result, I’ve got used to working in Perl, and have maybe grown a little too reliant on it, and some of the features it provides…
Note: this is not the canonical way, it just Works For Meâ„¢ – there are, no doubt, vast improvements that could be made. YMMV.