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Embedding Private Videos with Vimeo Pro

November 25th, 2011 | Posted by Huilaaja in Development | UI - (0 Comments)

Are you looking for the way to embed videos into your site that you don’t want anyone else to share? For example if your videos are only for certain people or users should pay for watching them. If so you might be interested of this article.

Vimeo has launched Pro account 1.8.2011 which makes sharing private videos much easier and cheaper. Price of Vimeo’s Pro account is 199$/year (150€/year = ~12€/month) and that’s all you need.

Here’s couple screenshots how you should configure secure way to embed private videos.

Privacy Settings

Embedding Settings

Vimeo Embedding Result. As you can see Video does not have any links to video's page or information how to embed video.

Embedding Source Code. Videos ID is visible but embedding other than huilaaja.net domain is impossible.

Vimeo Video is not visible for anyone. Even if you try to use video's ID to access video it's not possible.

I have done some Googling but I haven’t found any other service that would do the same with less than 100$/month. So I’m definitely recommending Vimeo for commercial use.

Embedded Private Video Demo

Embedding, Privacy, video, Vimeo

Blog 2.0 Rebirth

October 23rd, 2011 | Posted by Huilaaja in Development - (0 Comments)

23.10.2011 Blog has gone thru some changes, but it starts to be ready for new content.

Here’s a old blog screenshot for the memories.

Blog 1.1 (old) look

blog, wordpress

Media Queries shortcuts for Resizing your screen

May 30th, 2011 | Posted by Huilaaja in Development | UI - (0 Comments)

Mediaqueri.es uses following resolutions for screenshots. Resolutions are not official standard but largely agreed.

Javascript based resize links function depends on browser. At least IE9 still supports them.

Smartphone 320px resize
Tablet 768px resize
Netbook 1024px resize
Desktop 1600px resize

css3, html5, media queries, mobile

Useful Javascripts for Bookmarks

September 17th, 2010 | Posted by Huilaaja in Development | UI - (0 Comments)

Google search from current site

javascript:var q=prompt(%22Hakusana: %22,%22%22);if(q) document.location=%22http://www.google.fi/search?sitesearch=%22+location.host+%22&q=%22+q;

Make page editable

javascript:document.body.contentEditable='true'; document.designMode='on'; void 0

javascript, UI

Spotify stops playing after first song

September 15th, 2010 | Posted by Huilaaja in Development | UI - (0 Comments)

It’s spotify’s new FEATURE.

WTF! I thought my spotify client has some strange setting or a bug, but no.

Employee of Spotify answered:

Hi guys,

We have indeed changed how search results are played. As it was before many users would search for a specific song, listen to it, and then just leave their computer on streaming (without actually listening).

However, we are looking into how this has affected making a search into “Current Playlist”.

I’ll keep you updated,

Tom

Source: http://getsatisfaction.com/spotify/topics/playback_halting_after_every_song

spotify, UI, user interface

Good Practises: Automatic Deployment

September 15th, 2010 | Posted by Huilaaja in Development - (0 Comments)

Deployment process has habit of getting more complicated over time. If this process is not automated, soon you have only one person in the company who knows how to deploy the project. And then you are married with the project (in sickness and in health).

“Deploy your application automatically from the start”
- Venkat Subramaniam and Andy Hunt

Here’s couple of technologies and techniques you should beware of including into your projects, cause they will make automatic deployment harder:

Independent console or windows applications
SQL Server Projects
External libraries which require some license that is only possible to install in one or two machines
External libraries which are different for 64bit and 32bit operating systems
DTS packages

I have seen all of these mistakes been made and I also have made them. Just after spending two days deploying single project into production, I have started to understand the importance of automatic deployment.

If you make deployment automatic from the beginning, it become visible to everyone why not to use technics that are hard to automatically deploy. It will also save you time in the long run.

agile, deployment, TFS

WordPress 3 and multisite support

August 24th, 2010 | Posted by Huilaaja in Development - (0 Comments)

I was loking forward to see wp3 multisite system. Unfortunately I hoped to get one backend administration site for many blogs where I could mix content between blogs. Multisite support is not for that purpose. It just ables many completely separate blogs to use with single wp installation. So I could as well copy my blog folder and database to get the same outcome.

If you are still going to enable wp3 multisite feature, read the installation instructions vary carefully cause the installation settings are not reversible. Pay attention whether you select sub-domains or sub-directories installation. I didn’t and I end up messing the installation. Cause of that problem my blog was under some sort of attack or at least target of spam. I wouldn’t have notice that if my sites monthly bandwidth transfer hasn’t rice like stockbroker’s dream.