http://www.chrisdevbox.com/blog Chrisdevbox updates! Tue, 21 Oct 2008 22:37:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en If you are looking to do some video encoding the "cheap" way, then you need to install FFMPEG. If you are a CentOS junkie like me, then this is how you do it: Code: vi /etc/yum.repos.d/dag.repo Insert Code: [dag] name=Dag RPM Repository for Red Hat Enterprise Linux baseurl=http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el$releasever/en/$basearch/dag gpgcheck=1 enabled=1 Now run yum update After that look for ffmpeg (yum ... http://www.chrisdevbox.com/blog/2008/10/21/how-to-install-ffmpeg-on-centos-the-easy-way/ So, I'm researching video comments... I ran into Riffly.  They happen to have a plugin for Wordpress.  The only drawback is that little ad at the bottom and the super pixelated output... but is FREE, so who cares.  TO test, please add a comment.   http://riffly.com/ http://www.chrisdevbox.com/blog/2008/09/17/testing-video-comments/ Since the creation and launch of Wikipedia back in 2001 many people from all over the world have been busy collaborating, adding and updating content on this very popular wiki web. The wiki concept started a long time ago back in the early 1990's, nevertheless, Wikipedia, even though it hasn't ... http://www.chrisdevbox.com/blog/2008/06/30/the-inside-scoop-on-wikipedia-and-dbpedia-org/ In order to make Apache .htaccess work on your servers you also need to add the AllowOverride directive inside The first of these is performance. When AllowOverride is set to allow the use of .htaccess files, Apache will look in every directory for .htaccess files. Thus, permitting .htaccess files causes a ... http://www.chrisdevbox.com/blog/2008/06/26/why-should-you-avoid-htaccess-files/ I know, is not an easy thing, just don't go with your gut feeling, make a solid assessment based your own experience, market, location and type of project (Just to keep it simple). Most programmers will lean towards their favorite programming language and will give you a biased opinion. Some are ... http://www.chrisdevbox.com/blog/2008/06/17/quick-guide-on-how-to-choose-a-programming-language/ Earlier post: http://www.chrisdevbox.com/blog/2008/06/09/youtube-video-downloader/ http://www.chrisdevbox.com/blog/2008/06/16/youtube-downloader-demo-wvideo/ This is a simple and easy tutorial on how to retrieve (in real-time) all your videos from break.com and put them on your website using JavaScript. In real-time meaning a call to break.com's WEB API will be made every time you reload the page. Now, this is not a feature they have ... http://www.chrisdevbox.com/blog/2008/06/14/how-to-display-your-breakcom-videos-on-your-website-simple-jsjson-hack/ Cookies are great, I eat them all the time, however, this article is about a different type of cookie. Browser /HTTP cookies. The big question is: Are HTTP cookies good or bad. I keep getting this question from non-techy people and some techy people "think" they know ... http://www.chrisdevbox.com/blog/2008/06/12/the-mistery-behind-cookies-are-they-good-or-bad/ PHP has a built-in function that can decode a JSON string and turn into an object or an object tree and is called PHP-JSON. This is very helpful for when you need to integrate or mashup with other application such as the google APIs. Here is a quick ... http://www.chrisdevbox.com/blog/2008/06/11/pull-data-from-google-search-api-and-decode-json-string-using-php/ For all super DB geeks out there, you can now try the new SQL Server 2008 Release Candidate 0.  I recommend you install it on a virtual machine (Just in case).  Anyway, here is the link. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=35F53843-03F7-4ED5-8142-24A4C024CA05&displaylang=en I'm going to review and provide more details on a different/new post. Here is the official ... http://www.chrisdevbox.com/blog/2008/06/10/sql-server-2008-release-candidate-0-is-out/