Last month I was invited to speak at ProgrammableWeb’s APIConUK conference in London to share practices from our experience at Kaltura around building scalable, sustainable and future-proof APIs in a talk dubbed “How and Why To Dogfood Your API“. As the name of the talk suggests, the core concept I was discussing is building platforms with API-first approach […]

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I often launch CentOS images on ec2, specifically the RightImage_CentOS_6.3_x64_v5.8.8.5_EBS (ami-3b7bfc52). It’s a great clean CentOS image if you need to run tests or install Kaltura on a clean machine. A common requirement is to have an email sending service, preferably postfix that will be stable and handle long queues of emails (to support for email […]

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We spend a good amount of time on our #kaltura freenode channel during the day, staying in touch with other community developers, assisting others or simply chatting in a more collaborative environment than Skype… This weekend I decided it’s time to retire our old PHP based IRC bot (bit of server cleanup), and replace it with a newer […]

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Lotts docs out there, some are better than others, but most are a bit confusing. Just dropping this here for potential future need… The 2 best I came across are: http://www.akadia.com/services/ssh_test_certificate.html http://www.tc.umn.edu/~brams006/selfsign_ubuntu.html/ I found that steps 1-4 in the first guide are easy to follow and will work well to generate your keys. Then follow […]

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Often (or not) you might come across the need to download a video from a site you don’t own (e.g. someone uploaded an interview of you), but they use an RTMP server to stream their video. This neat tool will go to the URL of the page hosting the video player, load the page in […]

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This little “poor-developer filter” was discussed and solved many times. Despite the number of discussions it spur, and the many suggested ways to solve the problem, the question regarding which solution would be the most efficient, remained unclear. Maybe because its original goal was to screen “bad” developers rather than actually solve the problem efficiently or […]

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Need a quick, easy and free way of cleaning up a video’s audio from background noise ? Follow the steps below to remove background audio from videos. First get and install the tools: FFMPEG. SoX – Sound eXchange. Then clean your noise! Split the audio and video streams into 2 seperate files: The VIDEO stream: ffmpeg […]

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  An app I wrote needed the following features: Application has to run in the browser as a SWF. Application will run in filesystem mode (file://). Application will not have server side (except for YouTube). Application will have to login to YouTube using ClientLogin instead of AuthSub to avoid redirects. Application will have to upload a manipulated […]

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Another sleepless night… Got some new features to FLVWizard, there are now new functions to: Slice / Trim video. Sequence a vector of FLV ByteArrays. Minor things. Check out the source code for ClippingApp, a small app that allows clipping and sequencing of clip’s parts. More to come…

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Been a while now since I’ve last opened my Adobe Flex Builder and wrote some AS3… Working on the  Gendered Advertising Remixer a while ago, made me curious again about whether it will be possible to merge the video & audio channels of given FLVs in run-time on the client-side (in AS3). So I’ve decided to take […]

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Now that Streaming Media Europe and West HTML5 Media Workshops are over (and that I’m back home), as promised, here are the slides and some answers to common questions. This post is about the current state of HTML5 Media, links to resources about the Kaltura HTML5 Media Library, answers to the common questions from the workshop and some of my own personal view.

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Re-iterating what took too long (couple of hours) to pinpoint and solve. Getting ImageMagick (Imagick) installed on XAMPP 1.7.3 has it right there and clear, If you want to get Imagick installed on XAMPP 1.7.3, you’d need to: Install the LATEST OFFICIAL version of ImageMagick from http://www.imagemagick.org/script/binary-releases.php#windows . (I first tried installing the one from […]

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Coming from the Flash world, where the community has a voice and there’s a name & address assigned for every complaint – existing state of things with HTML5 as an Open Standard just doesn’t make much sense. True, Flash wasn’t that visible – but, they (MM/Adobe) still made sure to listen and improve upon the […]

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Register by August 1st for early bird rates! About OVC The Open Video Conference (OVC) is a multi-day summit of thought leaders in business, academia, art, and activism to explore the future of video on the web. Join us October 1-2 for two days of learning and inspiration. And stick around for the OVC hack […]

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This year, I am thrilled to be flying to OSCON for; 1. I will be speaking on a panel along with two fascinating and very experienced developers + we’ll be talking about the hottest topic discussed today, and 2. It’s my first time in Portland, Oregon the home of free speech and microbreweries. HTML5’s Multimedia […]

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Yesterday I arrived in Wiesbaden Germany for the first international Joomla developers conference – J and Beyond. First day is over and it has been a wonderful day of meeting lot’s of interesting Joomla experts from private and large web development agencies, self employed consultants and the founders and project leaders behind Joomla. I’m not […]

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You can find below the recordings from the first meeting of the Google Technology User Group in Tel Aviv. Presentations – JavaScript Programming Patterns – Zohar Arad. View video on iPhone / iPad. Android 101 & Droid Security – Dror Shalev. View video on iPhone / iPad. Django AppEngine Based Platform Building Site – Alon […]

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Happy to share my experience last week from the first Tel Aviv Google Technology User Group meetup. It was a fun evening with great people and featured interesting lectures about web development (python, Google AppEngine, JavaScript) and Android programming. This meetup was jointly organized with PyWeb-IL, another great Israeli user group focusing on Python and […]

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Past Sunday we had the 5th WebiTalks meetup. This time about Security in Flash Applications and Games. It was very interesting to see that at the same time we announced the meetup, two interesting debates about tweaking, changing and winning online Flash based games using various sniffing techniques started at Flashoo, the Israeli Flash community […]

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As a (technology & web) community activist that has organized quite a bit of events and activities I can testify, the trickiest step of organizing a meetup or event is with finding the right place. The venue that will be sexy, fit the type of event, be equipped with fast internet and presentation & sound […]

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Another great event in Israel this month. By @Orli and @Resnicke, an entrepreneurial type of event, and you can really feel it in the air – with the right mix of interesting people, awesome ideas and companies, VCs and great demos. Techonomy featured 7 great Israeli startups this year – amazing levels of innovation. Four […]

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It’s an exciting time indeed for Flash Platform developers in Israel. As the market grow and we see the demand for Flash & Flex Developers increasing quickly. The Flashoo Community (User Group) is a forum of the leading Flash and Flex Developers in Israel, entrepreneurs and team leaders utilizing the Flash Platform. Flashoo holds regular […]

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Hi! Check out the About section to learn more about this piece of the web. This website will be used as an online log for many ideas I just need to dump or things I may find of value. You’re welcome to poke around, take what you want and mash it up… /Zohar

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