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When working on an application that streams videos from S3 I noticed that whenever an S3 object has a space in its name it fails to stream.

However, when streaming objects without spaces in the name it works fine.

Read more about JW Player, S3, Wowza and “Stream not found” »

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• Work In Small Batches by Lessons Learned
• The Tools We Use: Who Cares? by Usability Counts
• Small Money Eventually Gets Big by CinemaTech
• Cucumber Cake by Ideas on Ideas

Read more about Our Bookmarks: Feb 16 – Feb 22, 2009 »

If you have a bundled image in the us-east-1 region of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and you want to move/copy it to Europe (eu-west-1).

The following command should do the trick:

Read more about How to copy your bundled AMI from one EC2 region to another »

Development & Production

• This Is My Process by Design Observer
• Is Good Design Replicable? by Bokardo
• Good Designers Redesign, Great Designers Realign by A List Apart
• 10 Harsh Truths About Corporate Websites by Smashing Magazine
• The Words Are Dead! Long Live The Words! by Usability Counts

Read more about Our Bookmarks: Feb 09 – Feb 15, 2009 »

Development & Production

• Lining Up Funds First Pays For Producers by TV Week
• The Ugly Truth About CMS Migrations by Usability Counts
• How To Use Metrics To Improve Your Site – Part 2 by KISSmetrics

Read more about Our Bookmarks: Feb 02 – Feb 08, 2009 »

Development & Production

• Slicing Decades Of Video For New Life On The Web by NY Times
• Sponsors Bolster Web Series’ Chances by TVWeek
• Target Web Videos To Popular Topics ‘Obama Girl’ Creator Advises by TVWeek
• Ten Motivators That Inspire Participation by ClickZ Experts

Read more about Our Bookmarks: Jan 26 – Feb 01, 2009 »

By default Symfony uses Sendmail mail transfer agent to prepare emails to be sent out by the system. If you want to use Exim instead, you need to:

Read more about Setting up Symfony to use Exim instead of Sendmail »