Refactoring media browser - entity resolution
I am going to try to post a little bit about my adventures refactoring Media Browser. In this post I am covering some aspects of entity resolution.
Simpler debugging of Vista Media Center plugins
In this post I offer a streamlined mechanism for debugging Vista Media Center plugins in Visual Studio.
Slow response-time is usability's alcoholism
For the last few weeks I have been forced to use a very slow website. This has left me feeling very demoralized. This is why.
My server just died, long live my new VPS
Earlier this week my old trusty server, which hosts www.samsaffron.com and www.mediabrowser.tv, died. I decided to migrate all the data to a new VPS (virtual private server), here is a sketchy account of how this all happened.
Deadlocked
In SQL Server a SELECT statement can deadlock against an UPDATE statement without being in a transaction. Why does this happen? What is a good approach to SQL Server deadlocks?
SSH Jumphosts tunneling and other curiosities
Recently, I had to support a rails server which is deep behind a firewall. Here I offer a somewhat sketchy account of how I am able to support it.
Video Browser: Past, Present and Future
Why I started off Video Browser, where it is today, and what are the future plans.
Speed up your feed generation in Rails
In general when generating rss feed in Rails you will be using the builder library, it can be fairly slow unless you take special care.
You should be very careful when using ActiveRecord eager loading
Watch out when you use ActiveRecord eager loading, it has the potential to wreak havoc if you are not careful.
I fixed up Video Browser's sort by date
A new release of Video Browser contains a few bug fixes