Using a HTTP Proxy to Debug JAX-WS and SOAP Over HTTPS
Every once in a while I run into something I need to debug from the network up. Most of the time I can do this using Wireshark but there are a few instances ...
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Converting from VirtualBox or VMWare to EC2 now Easier than Ever
The new PV-Grub ability introduced by Amazon for EC2 has opened the door for more than just custom kernels, it also makes it a lot easier to turn VirtualBox ...
Installing Cent OS 5.5 on EC2 with the Cent OS 5.5 Kernel
Amazon recently introduced the ability to boot a custom kernel using pv-grub on EC2. This opens the door for all kinds of interesting ideas that I’ve been th...
Compiling WebM into FFMpeg for Windows
I have updated this post with a newer version of the VP8 patches to FFMpeg and support for libvorbis instead of the built in vorbis support.
Upgrade to Fedora 13 from Fedora 12
After a week delay Fedora 13 has been released and it is time to upgrade of course. As always there are a decent number of features in this release but here ...
Faceted Search With Sphinx
I decided to use the Sphinx search engine for the GeeQe iPhone app I build last year because it was fast and had a very small memory footprint. Recently I wa...
How to Create iPad Formatted Videos Using HandBrake or FFMpeg
This is for those who may want to load a video onto their iPad with iTunes that isn’t in the correct format. I needed to do this because I was trying to put ...
iPad Streaming Video and More
I’ve updated the configuration examples in the open source segmenter project to reflect Apple’s recommended stream bitrates for iPad video streaming, added a...
Using Cursors with PHP MySQLi and Multiple Prepared Statements
After my post on using PHP MySQLi and multiple prepared statements at the same time someone commented that using cursors could do the same thing. With that c...
Spring 3 File Upload Example
I had the opportunity to figure out how to do file uploads using Spring 3 the other day and I couldn’t find anything that pulled it all together. What follow...