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Monthly Archives: December 2008

Converting videos (flv,wmv,avi,etc) into a format that will work with the iPhone/iTunes

By carson | Published: December 27, 2008
I have had an iPhone for a while now and I keep running into instances where I want to have videos outside of youtube in some format that I can watch on the device. These include windows WMV formatted videos from PDC as well as FVL formatted videos on Flex. I finally broke down and [...]
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Automounting Amazon EBS volumes on EC2 instances

By carson | Published: December 23, 2008
I've been using S3 to store semi-transient information like log files from EC2 nodes in the past but recently decided to give Amazon's Elastic Block Store (EBS) a try instead. I quickly realized a downside to using EBS in that there is no mechanism for auto-attach and mounting volumes when an AMI is launched. This [...]
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SOAP on the Google App Engine platform

By carson | Published: December 2, 2008
I generally don't recomend using SOAP instead of REST but I have been required to use SOAP so much now that I think it is inevitably going to be a requirement for a long time for certain projects. So when I noticed a question on stack overflow about using SOAP on the Google App Engine [...]
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