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June 14, 2010

Cloud storage without bandwidth costs

"We need to store on the cloud but be able to control our bandwidth costs"

Our client generates around 100 GB of video for the web every month so looking for cloud storage was a no-brainer.

We needed an "unlimited" size hard drive but didn't need a CDN service, and it was specially important to control our costs, at least initially.

Here is how we achieved the goal.
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October 4, 2009

How to install: flvtool2, flvtool++ and yamdi under Centos

Last week we had the need to test out flvtool2, flvtool++ and yamdi to see which one suited best for us. Today i thought it would be cool to show you a step by step on how to install them under Centos (the OS we use and recommend for servers).

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June 12, 2009

Get Google PageRank from Flash

I just added a PageRank ActionScript class to the inca library. You now can get a website's pagerank via flash.

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June 8, 2009

Comparison between Wordpress and MovableType

I have been running this blog under movabletype since ever. I ran other blogs under wordpress. After a while working with both blog engines here is a comparison between both. Comments are welcome!

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June 7, 2009

YFinance ActionScript class

We have been playing a lot with financial api's at the office so i thought it was a good idea to create a YFinance consumer class for the inca library

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January 22, 2009

Flash/Flex/Flash Lite/Air interface to Zimbra MTA

You guys may know about Zimbra already. It's an open source mail group server software that offers similar features as Microsoft Exchange.

I have done an actionscript2/actionscript3 interface to it and i'm looking for official support by them since i want to release it open source.

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December 30, 2008

Migrating from svn to git

We have been using subversion for quite a while but some of us have also used git on personal projects. So, after a couple of discussions we are migrating everything into git. All our repos are password protected and with lots of revisions. This is how we did the migration.

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August 7, 2008

XMPP for real time flash communication

Why is xmpp or jabber not that spread into the flash community? Why we don't see jabber as an option for real time collaboration apps together with flash? Here are my thoughts on the subject.

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March 6, 2008

MSN Messenger lib for adobe air

I took the morning off from work in order to finally finish my actionscript msnlib for adobe air.
It allows you to connect and chat with msn messenger users within adobe air. It uses just ActionScript 3 and the air libs.

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October 6, 2007

Flash Video is everywhere!

I'm excited to finally be able to share this. We have been working on a project to make Flash Video known by everybody in this country.

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