REST Anti-Patterns – A lot of people (or companies) pretend to have a REST API. Read this article and you will understand that not all the API’s that implement GET and POST methods are REST APIs. It is an old article (from 2008), but still valid.
Month: December 2013
Crashing Google Chrome on Google website
Used version of Google Chrome Version 31.0.1650.63
OS Version: Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS, Linux work 3.2.0-57-generic #87-Ubuntu SMP Tue Nov 12 21:35:10 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Go on Google Trends website http://www.google.com/trends/topcharts?zg=full
Click View #my2013 Gallery
Click any picture
Click the browser’s back button
Click again the browser’s back button
Crashed… or it will take between 20 seconds and 1-2 minutes to refresh that page.
Making a super fast blog with Drupal 7
Yesterday I decided to try to make my blog to load under 200 ms from my laptop using Drupal 7without loose my old links to blog posts, from SEO reasons. I know, some people would say there are better solutions for a blog others than Drupal, but… I wanted to give a try to Drupal because it has one of the biggest community, a lot of modules and features and of course for fun.
HLS Video on Demand streaming
First of all, let’s explain shortly what HLS is.
HTTP Live Streaming (also known as HLS) is an HTTP-based media streaming communications protocol implemented by Apple. Since it requires only standard HTTP transactions, HTTP Live Streaming is capable of traversing any firewall or proxy server that lets through standard HTTP traffic, unlike UDP-based protocols such as RTP. This also allows content to be delivered over widely available CDNs. In a few words, HLS works by breaking the overall stream into a sequence of small HTTP-based file downloads. At the start of the streaming session, the client downloads an extended M3U (m3u8) playlist containing the metadata for the various sub-streams (called TS files) which are available. You can read more about HLS Architecture on Apple Developer website.
How to play HLS with JWPlayer
In this post we will show you a simple way how to play HLS into web browser with JW PLayer – the free version.
Even on JW Player website is saying you need the Premium version for HLS, we found it is working also with the free version together with HLSprovider plugin.