Video Player Development Across Multiple Screens
An FMS developer guide to 2012 web video
User Experience and Experience Design
“The Philips Wake-Up Light has nevertheless the power to “transcend its encasing” because its contribution is not one to the aesthetics of things, but to the aesthetics of experiences. This is the challenge designers and vendors of interactive products face: Experience or User Experience is not about good industrial design, multi-touch, or fancy interfaces. It is about transcending the material. It is about creating an experience through a device.”
Adaptive Streaming Leaders 2012
Sponsored:
“Cable’s multiscreen video services are fast becoming essential in an increasingly mobile electronic world, and adaptive bitrate streaming lies right at their core. Some of the more critical areas of this IP technology include transcoding, performance monitoring and security. If you’re not streaming video yet, you need to start; if you are, you can expect to do more of it — lots more.”
How to Encode for Adaptive Streaming
“This session identifies the most relevant adaptive streaming technologies and details the most critical factors for comparing them. Next, it details how to choose the ideal number of streams and key encoding parameters. Then it provides an overview of options for encoding and serving the streams and closes by describing techniques for serving multiple target platforms like Flash and iDevices with one set of encoded H.264 files.
Speaker: Jan Ozer, Principal, Contributing Editor, Streaming Media magazine, Doceo Publishing”
The State Of HTML5 Video
January 2012:
“2/3 of the market is already supporting HTML5. That being said, there is still a need for Flash. On the desktop, Internet Explorer 6/7/8 make up a large pecent of the market share (28%), and are here to stay for a few more years. Since they do not support HTML5, alternatives like Flash remain critical for video playback. As for the other browsers, their entire install base is already supporting HTML5 video.
Mobile phones and tablets have emerged as a new category over the last few years. Currently, only the iOS and Android market shares are relevant. Both support HTML5 video. Android still supports Flash, but as announced recently, future phones will not have the plugin anymore. Connected TVs and settop boxes are not yet a factor. Popular devices (XBox, PS3, Apple TV, Roku) have neither web browsers nor app markets. This may change in 2012 as Apple and Google roll out new products.”
Devops Is a Poorly Executed Scam
Point one. Nobody seems to know. At least with Scrum, you could buy the book and take the course. From what I have gathered by reading blogs, if you want to apply Devops to organization, you do any or all of these things:“How do you implement Devops?
These things are all the basics you pick up by reading Learn How Not to be a Complete Failure at Software Development in 24 Hours. None of it will make your developers any less prone to do stupid shit, and none of it will prevent your systems administrators from roadblocking developers just for funnies.”
The unsustainability of the current web
“Most popular web-based businesses are deflationary. They substitute expensive forms of content consumption for cheap ones, they make it logistically easier to deliver discounts to people who will respond to them, and they create numerous financially cheap forms of social status. As more activity moves on to the web, the main effect on the economy will be broadly lower prices and less need for employment.”
