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JBoss Seam: State of the Union (JBoss Developer on Vimeo)

October 27, 2010 by Brent Sordyl 0 Comments

The JBoss Seam framework is a powerful open source development platform for building rich Internet applications in Java. Seam is built on a JSR-299: Contexts and Dependency Injection for Java EE core (provided by Weld in JBoss.org Community Application Server), which integrates with Java EE technologies like JavaServer Faces (JSF) and Enterprise Java Beans (EJB 3.0). Seam integrates several technologies, including: Java Persistence (JPA), Business Process Management (BPM), Rules (Drools), Wicket, PDF and Excel reporting, security, and email, into a unified full-stack solution, complete with sophisticated tooling.

In this session, Pete Muir and Dan Allen, senior software engineer at Red Hat, will detail the state of the union for Seam, and provide an overview of the features offered by Seam 3.
(Link: JBoss Seam: State of the Union (JBoss Developer on Vimeo))

jboss, seam, video

YouTube – John Cleese on Creativity and Writing

August 17, 2010 by Brent Sordyl 0 Comments

(Link: YouTube – John Cleese on Creativity and Writing)

creativity, johncleese, video

One-person academy tops YouTube's educational chart – Boing Boing

June 8, 2010 by Brent Sordyl 0 Comments

Jeff Young sez, “Khan Academy is a one-man university on YouTube. Lectures are 10 minutes each. Self-paced assessments. Everything is free. Should traditional higher ed be worried or excited? It’s an outsider operation that raised $150,000+ in donations from tech entpreneurs and small PayPal contribs. And it’s the most popular education video site on YouTube — more popular than MIT’s OpenCourseWare. The founder has big plans to try to turn it into a recognized charter school for K-12 and to help challenge model of college instruction.”
(Link: One-person academy tops YouTube’s educational chart – Boing Boing)

e-learning, video

How NBC brought the Olympics from Beijing to New York to You.Network Performance Blog, Network Performance Management News, Tutorials, Resources – Network Performance Blog

August 27, 2009 by Brent Sordyl 0 Comments

# In 1996 Atlanta, NBC had 172 hours worth of coverage. In 2000 in Sydney, they brought CNBC and MSNBC on board and covered 442 hours. In 2004 for the Athens games, with the addition of USA, Bravo, Telemundo, and Universal HD, they covered 1,219 hours – 70 hours of programming content for any 24 hour period in Athens. But in Beijing, they covered over 3,600 hours, using online distribution, for 211 hours of coverage for any 24 hour period in Beijing. This included clips and highlights, as well as live streaming on NBCOlympics.com.
# There were 1.3 billion pageviews, 50 million unique visitors, 31.5 million hours of videos viewed, 35 million mobile views, 130,000 peak streams and 3.4 petabytes of video delivered. In context, if you stacked 3.4 petabytes in data on 1.44M floppies, then laid the stack down on the ground, you’d reach from New York to L.A. “Simply put, it was the largest media event in television history.”
(Link: How NBC brought the Olympics from Beijing to New York to You.Network Performance Blog, Network Performance Management News, Tutorials, Resources – Network Performance Blog)

video

Howcast – The best how to videos on the web

July 13, 2009 by Brent Sordyl 0 Comments

Share your how-to videos with engaged viewers across the web and beyond.
Make your videos even more useful. Add Howcast Easy Steps™ to any video in minutes.
(Link: Howcast – The best how to videos on the web)

how-to, instructions, video

Vokle – live video chat

July 13, 2009 by Brent Sordyl 0 Comments

Townhalls, Video Interviews, Online Clases, Interactive Talk Shows
(Link: Vokle – live video chat)

liveonline, video, videochat

Screenjelly – records your screen activity with your voice so you can spread it as a video via Twitter or email.

July 7, 2009 by Brent Sordyl 0 Comments

Screenjelly records your screen activity with your voice so you can spread it as a video via Twitter or email.

Use it to quickly share cool apps or software tips, report a bug, or just show stuff you like.
(Link: Screenjelly – records your screen activity with your voice so you can spread it as a video via Twitter or email.)

screencast, screencasting, video

Tim O’Reilly TimesOpen Keynote Video – NYTimes.com

May 14, 2009 by Brent Sordyl 0 Comments

On February 20th, we held our first TimesOpen event. It was well attended, and a good time was had by all. But for those of you who were not able to make it, we did record Tim O’Reilly’s opening keynote address
(Link: Tim O’Reilly TimesOpen Keynote Video – NYTimes.com)

oreilly, timesopen, tweet, video

Chris Wanstrath (of GitHub) RailsConf 09 Keynote on blip.tv

May 12, 2009 by Brent Sordyl 0 Comments

Chris Wanstrath (of GitHub) Keynote: I missed Chris’s keynote but you can watch it here. He titled it “How To Become a Famous Ruby Rockstar or Rails Ninja” but it’s partly tongue-in-cheek and moves into other territory.
(Link: Chris Wanstrath (of GitHub) RailsConf 09 Keynote on blip.tv)

github, humor, rubyonrails, video

Scaling Rails Video Series

April 1, 2009 by Brent Sordyl 0 Comments

Learn everything you need to know about Scaling your Rails app through 13 informative Screencasts produced by Gregg Pollack
(Link: Scaling Rails Video Series)

rubyonrails, scalability, video, web2.0