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My name is Joseph.
I make web apps.

I'm half of fiveby.
I built whspr!

I heart Ruby.

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November 29th, 2009

Batch Converting Files With FFmpeg and Ruby

by Joseph Jaramillo

I recently needed to burn some video files (h.264 MKV) to DVD such that the disc would work in a standalone player. After an hour googling for a set of commands to pass to ffmpeg to convert my files, I then started looking for batch scripts. It occurred to me shortly thereafter that Ruby could help. I had found a command that worked beautifully with a single file, so all that was necessary was to automate it.

It only took one line to accomplish the task:

It’d be a cinch to generalize for input video format.

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September 24th, 2009

Google Wave Will Require Chrome Frame in IE

by Joseph Jaramillo

I missed this gem from Tuesday:

In the past, the Google Wave team has spent countless hours solely on improving the experience of running Google Wave in Internet Explorer. We could continue in this fashion, but using Google Chrome Frame instead lets us invest all that engineering time in more features for all our users, without leaving Internet Explorer users behind.

Sounds good to me!

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September 15th, 2009

Never Give In

by Joseph Jaramillo

I posted a shortened version of this on Twitter, but the full version helped me at the end of a very trying day. It’s worth repeating at length:

Never give in–never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.

– Winston Churchill

Tomorrow’s a new day. Make the most of it.

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September 9th, 2009

Why did Apple drop ZFS?

by Joseph Jaramillo

Good stuff:

“The ZFS team has produced a game-changing file system/volume manager. The chance to get it into the hands of 10s of millions of Mac users – and to influence Redmond’s file system strategy – seem to this outsider an opportunity of a lifetime.

If the ZFS engineering team opposed this – and I’d love to hear their take – I encourage them to reconsider. Marketers often ask the question ‘would you prefer 100% of nothing or 40% of something huge?’”

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September 7th, 2009

President Obama’s Back to School Remarks

by Joseph Jaramillo

I’m not a parent, but I cannot find a single thing in this document that any real parent should find offensive.

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