tranScriptorium will be present at the next Digital Heritage 2015 conference to be held in Granada (Spain). See you in Granada!! | Continue reading
Rotolini di fesa di tacchino arrosto con crema alla ricotta, basilico e mandorle. | Continue reading
TU Berlin/Sin Digital at IBC 2015 in AmsterdamSpin Digital presents at IBC Amsterdam the latest version of its very compact 8K HEVC/H.265 decoder for the next generation of Ultra High Definition... | Continue reading
TU Berlin/Spin Digital at IFA 2015 in BerlinSpin Digital will demonstrate at IFA Berlin its real-time HEVC/H.265 decoder for 4K (UHD-1 Phase 2) supporting 60 frames per second, high dynamic range, and... | Continue reading
Film265 Face-to-Face Meeting in CopenhagenOn July 3rd 2015 members of the Film265 consortium met in Copenhagen at LevelK headquarters to discuss the advances of the project. Participants from all... | Continue reading
TU Berlin and reelport presented Film265 at the Connect Concertation Meeting.The Film265 project was presented by Mauricio Alvarez-Mesa (TU Berlin) and Tilman Scheel (reelport) at the Connect... | Continue reading
Film265 at Cannes Film Festival 2015Members from the Film265 consortium participated in the Cannes Film Festival 2015 edition at the French Riviera city from May 13th to May 24th. Mr Jerome Paillard,... | Continue reading
TU Berlin/Sin Digital at IBC 2015 in AmsterdamSpin Digital presents at IBC Amsterdam the latest version of its very compact 8K HEVC/H.265 decoder for the next generation of Ultra High Definition applications. The demonstration will take place at RAI Amsterdam at Hall 1, Stand 1.F … | Continue reading
TU Berlin/Spin Digital at IFA 2015 in BerlinSpin Digital will demonstrate at IFA Berlin its real-time HEVC/H.265 decoder for 4K (UHD-1 Phase 2) supporting 60 frames per second, high dynamic range, and extended color formats (4:4:4 and 10-bit). The exhibition will take place from … | Continue reading
Film265 Face-to-Face Meeting in CopenhagenOn July 3rd 2015 members of the Film265 consortium met in Copenhagen at LevelK headquarters to discuss the advances of the project. Participants from all consortium partners (TU Berlin, Reelport, Marché du Film - Cinando, and LevelK) were … | Continue reading
TU Berlin and reelport presented Film265 at the Connect Concertation Meeting.The Film265 project was presented by Mauricio Alvarez-Mesa (TU Berlin) and Tilman Scheel (reelport) at the Connect Concertation Meeting, which was organized by the Creativity Unit of the DG Connect direc … | Continue reading
Film265 at Cannes Film Festival 2015Members from the Film265 consortium participated in the Cannes Film Festival 2015 edition at the French Riviera city from May 13th to May 24th. Mr Jerome Paillard, executive director of the Marché du Film, Tilman Scheel CEO of reelport, and Mau … | Continue reading
I’ve been using XMPP as my primary IM protocol for years now. I’ve used a few other things on the side, but I’ve always advertised it as my primary mean of communication. And it’s really worked for a long time: lots of developers and people in FLOSS circles use XMPP, and Google T … | Continue reading
Ben and James briefly discuss ad-blockers, then admit it’s an academic debate and move on to the business of advertising and the far more profound shifts that are caused on the Internet and by new places on the Internet. Note: This podcast references Marco Arment’s Peace applicat … | Continue reading
When I was at SoundCloud, being transparent about our architecture evolution was part of our technology strategy. Something we’ve talked about on countless occasions but never really described in detail was our application of the Back-end for Front-end architecture pattern, or BF … | Continue reading
CSS animations and transitions are awesome, but they’re also hard to get right. You want your animations to be sequenced a certain way, to last the right amount of time, and to progress at the right pace. That’s where tooling comes in. What if you could slow down, rewind, or paus … | Continue reading
Terrina di patate, funghi, melanzane e pane aromatizzato con basilico, origano e prezzemolo. | Continue reading
Setting up replication in PostgreSQL using Bucardo | Continue reading
Ben and James discuss James’ sophomore experience at Burning Man, and then turn to the iPad Pro and its paucity of quality of applications. Just how much is Apple responsible? This episode is sponsored by Zendesk. Make your customer service seem like magic by building it directly … | Continue reading
FotoxanneTHISONE, 2015 © Sophie JungHaving announced the five talents for the ING Unseen Talent Award, we’re excited to announce that voting is now open for the Public Prize. Cast your vote here and get the chance to win an exclusive Unseen prize. | Continue reading
Moon Game, 2015 © Sjoerd KnibbelerHaving announced the five talents for the ING Unseen Talent Award, we’re excited to announce that voting is now open for the Public Prize. Cast your vote here and get the chance to win an exclusive Unseen prize. | Continue reading
Untitled (Dilatation I), 2015 © Sébastien BoninHaving announced the five talents for the ING Unseen Talent Award, we’re excited to announce that voting is now open for the Public Prize. Cast your vote here and get the chance to win an exclusive Unseen prize. | Continue reading
All is dust, 2015 © Olya OleinicHaving announced the five talents for the ING Unseen Talent Award, we’re excited to announce that voting is now open for the Public Prize. Cast your vote here and get the chance to win an exclusive Unseen prize. | Continue reading
Summer Ending, 2015 © Lara GasparottoHaving announced the five talents for the ING Unseen Talent Award, we’re excited to announce that voting is now open for the Public Prize. Cast your vote here and get the chance to win an exclusive Unseen prize. | Continue reading
Microservices are a thing these days. When I was at SoundCloud, I was responsible for the migration from a monolithic Ruby on Rails application to a constellation of microservices. I’ve told the technical side of this story multiple times, both in presentations, and as a multi-p … | Continue reading
canvas { display: inline-block; max-width: 100%; cursor: crosshair; } This post explains the algorithm I use for field of view in my game. I’ve been meaning to write about it for a long time. While I procrastinated, I moved four times, got married, had two kids, and ported my … | Continue reading
Ben and James discuss the New York Times exposé on Amazon’s work practices at its Seattle headquarters. What exactly was the story about, what questions are raised by it, and more importantly, what are the right answers for not just Amazon but society as a whole? This episode is … | Continue reading
I’m a big fan of Zach Gage’s games. He recently released a game called “Sage Solitaire” in which solitaire is played with poker hands. You can make a Full House, Straight, Straight Flush, etc, to clear cards from the board. To choose what hands to make, it’s pretty important to k … | Continue reading
I’m a big fan of Zach Gage’s games. He recently released a game called “Sage Solitaire” in which solitaire is played with poker hands. You can make a Full House, Straight, Straight Flush, etc, to clear cards from the board. To choose what hands to make, it’s pretty important to k … | Continue reading
If you’re a web developer and you’re interested in open source projects and you commonly use browser devtools in your activities then you might want to read on. In this article, I’ll go over some of the things that make the Firefox DevTools open source project special, and how th … | Continue reading
María De Lourdes Melgar Palacios discusses the nation's decision to allow foreign companies to invest in its energy sector. | Continue reading
The HTR technology being developed for tranScriptorium offers a number of exciting possibilities when it comes to transcription, not least of which is when it comes to crowdsourcing. Based on our experience of running Transcribe Bentham – which crowdsources the transcription of t … | Continue reading
Jerry Brown, the man once known as 'Gov. Moonbeam,' has since become an unofficial ambassador on stopping climate change. | Continue reading
TU Berlin/Spin Digital presented an 8K H.265 decoder at CEBIT 2015TU Berlin participated as exhibitor at CeBIT Hannover (Germany), one of the world’s most important computer and technological trade... | Continue reading
TU Berlin/Spin Digital presented an 8K H.265 decoder at CEBIT 2015TU Berlin participated as exhibitor at CeBIT Hannover (Germany), one of the world’s most important computer and technological trade shows. The exhibition took place at the Hannover Messe from 16th to 20th March. TU … | Continue reading
As Common Core test results come in, the goal of comparing student performance among states is unmet. | Continue reading
As a software engineer, I eventually need to collect metrics from my development environment to be graphed and measured. I found a very portable solution based on Docker containers, InfluxDB as time series store and Grafana as visualization tool. Let’s start by installing the Doc … | Continue reading
Scholarships for the Oct 19-21 Practical Object-Oriented Design Course (POODNYC) in New York City have been awarded! Winners are listed below, but before I introduce them I'd like to give an overview of the applicant pool and selection process. | Continue reading
I attended OSCON for the first time this year in Portland. | Continue reading
In this article we'll take a look at the wonderful world of the CSS Grid Layout, a relatively new W3C specification that has partially started to see the light in some browsers. But before we dive into what this new CSS technique is all about and how to use it, let's quickly revi … | Continue reading
Identifier: H2020-BBI-PPP-2015-02Pillar: Societal ChallengesOpening Date: Deadline: Thu, 3 Dec 2015 17:00:00 (Brussels local time)Modification Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2015Latest information: The submission session is now available for: BBI.D7-2015(BBI-IA-DEMO), BBI.R10-2015(BBI-RIA), B … | Continue reading
I recently came across awesome list of php resources that can be very handy. Have a look at the following and save it Dependency Management Libraries for dependency and package management. Composer/Packagist – A package and dependency manager. Composer Installers – A multi frame … | Continue reading