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digiKam is an advanced digital photo management application for Linux, Windows, and Mac-OSX. The people who inspired digiKam's design are the photographers like you who want to view, manage, edit, enhance, organize, tag, and share photographs under Linux systems. - Aaron Terry

This document provides an introduction to encoding web optimized MP4 videos. It lists the format, dimensions and bitrates required for high-quality playback across all major browsers and devices. It does not cover specialized topics such as adaptive streaming or advanced x264 parameters. - Aaron Terry

This document provides an introduction to encoding web optimized MP4 videos. It lists the format, dimensions and bitrates required for high-quality playback across all major browsers and devices. It does not cover specialized topics such as adaptive streaming or advanced x264 parameters. - Aaron Terry

Underscore is a utility-belt library for JavaScript that provides a lot of the functional programming support that you would expect in Prototype.js (or Ruby), but without extending any of the built-in JavaScript objects. It's the tie to go along with jQuery's tux, and Backbone.js's suspenders. - Aaron Terry

Fabric is a Python (2.5 or higher) library and command-line tool for streamlining the use of SSH for application deployment or systems administration tasks. It provides a basic suite of operations for executing local or remote shell commands (normally or via sudo) and uploading/downloading files, as well as auxiliary functionality such as prompting the running user for input, or aborting execution. Typical use involves creating a Python module containing one or more functions, then executing them via the fab command-line tool. Below is a small but complete “fabfile” containing a single task: - Aaron Terry

Blackbird offers a dead-simple way to log messages in JavaScript and an attractive console to view and filter them. You might never use alert() again. - Aaron Terry

Salt is an open source tool to manage your infrastructure. Easy enough to get running in minutes and fast enough to manage tens of thousands of servers (and still get a response back in seconds). Execute arbitrary shell commands or choose from dozens of pre-built modules of common (or complex) commands. Target individual servers or groups of servers based on name, defined roles, or a variety of system information such as hardware, software, operating system, current version, current environment, and many more. - Aaron Terry

Developers no longer need to worry about setting up complicated infrastructure components. Projects with conflicting dependencies can each get their own sandbox -- keeping a developer's workstation free of the hacks needed for multiple versions of software to coexist - Aaron Terry

Blackbird offers a dead-simple way to log messages in JavaScript and an attractive console to view and filter them. You might never use alert() again. - Aaron Terry

Underscore is a utility-belt library for JavaScript that provides a lot of the functional programming support that you would expect in Prototype.js (or Ruby), but without extending any of the built-in JavaScript objects. It's the tie to go along with jQuery's tux, and Backbone.js's suspenders. - Aaron Terry

Fabric is a Python (2.5 or higher) library and command-line tool for streamlining the use of SSH for application deployment or systems administration tasks. It provides a basic suite of operations for executing local or remote shell commands (normally or via sudo) and uploading/downloading files, as well as auxiliary functionality such as prompting the running user for input, or aborting execution. Typical use involves creating a Python module containing one or more functions, then executing them via the fab command-line tool. Below is a small but complete “fabfile” containing a single task: - Aaron Terry

Salt is an open source tool to manage your infrastructure. Easy enough to get running in minutes and fast enough to manage tens of thousands of servers (and still get a response back in seconds). Execute arbitrary shell commands or choose from dozens of pre-built modules of common (or complex) commands. Target individual servers or groups of servers based on name, defined roles, or a variety of system information such as hardware, software, operating system, current version, current environment, and many more. - Aaron Terry

Developers no longer need to worry about setting up complicated infrastructure components. Projects with conflicting dependencies can each get their own sandbox -- keeping a developer's workstation free of the hacks needed for multiple versions of software to coexist - Aaron Terry

For plugin developers desiring an easier way to perform common tasks, a little more structure in their code, or perhaps even a dash of MVC goodness, here is a list of WordPress plugin frameworks. This list is intended to be comprehensive. If you find an actively maintained plugin framework that’s not listed here, let me know and I’ll add it. - Aaron Terry

For plugin developers desiring an easier way to perform common tasks, a little more structure in their code, or perhaps even a dash of MVC goodness, here is a list of WordPress plugin frameworks. This list is intended to be comprehensive. If you find an actively maintained plugin framework that’s not listed here, let me know and I’ll add it. - Aaron Terry

In this article, I will show you how to get started with Apache Camel along with just few lines of Groovy script. You can certainly also start off with a full Java project to try out Camel, but I find Groovy will give you the shortest working example and learning curve. - Aaron Terry

Scripting for the Java Plaform (JSR-223) is a API that standardizes the way scripting language are integrated within a Java application. Have a look at the project site to get an overview what languages are available and what dependencies they have (https://scripting.dev.java.net/). - Aaron Terry

However in most of our deployments, we're working with "high availability" setups, where dedicated servers handle different functions and redundant backup servers are on hand for every piece of the infrastructure. That means two database servers, two web servers, two Varnish servers, and so on. - Aaron Terry

There are many website monitoring services, but wouldn't you rather run similar thing on your own machine? I decided to go this way and wrote a simple script for monitoring several websites. It is called monithor - monitor with "th", like Thor - nordic god of thunder. - Aaron Terry

After evaluating several graph databases, I decided to put more emphasis on Neo4J. Neo4J seems to be better documented and has a better REST API than the others. But still, I did not want to move all my relational data to Neo4J and there was actually no need to do so. I only needed the graph functionality of Neo4J to retrieve the user relationships as a resultset and merge it with my good old relational data. So I decided to go on to my evaluation by preparing a small .Net assembly to access Neo4J REST API and make use of the  CLR functionality in SQL Server. - Aaron Terry

Edit Flow gives you custom statuses, a calendar, editorial comments, and more, all to make it much easier for your team to collaborate within WordPress. - Aaron Terry

Bar is a simple and lightweight jQuery notification banner I’ve created which is an alternative to the Hellobar. It allows you to create a simple call to action and bring it forward for the user to see at the top of your website. The user can then toggle the visibility of the bar by clicking the ribbon. - Aaron Terry

What is better to store hierarchical data: nested sets model or adjacency list (parent-child) model? - Aaron Terry

In Closure Table, we store every path in a tree, not only direct parent-child references, but also grandparent-grandchild, and every other path, no matter how long. We even store paths of length zero, which means a node is its own parent. So if A is a parent of B, and B is a parent of C and C is a parent of D, we need to store the following paths: A-A, A-B, A-C, A-D, B-B, B-C, B-D, C-C, C-D, D-D. This makes it easy to query for all descendants of A, or all ancestors of D, or many other common queries that are difficult if you store hierarchies according to textbook solutions. - Aaron Terry

Dataset is a JavaScript client-side data transformation and management library. Dataset makes managing client-side data easy by handling loading, parsing, sorting, querying & manipulating data from all sorts of sources. - Aaron Terry

DOS Batch - FTP Scripts File Transfer with FTP, One-File Solutions. - Aaron Terry

Create View Templates to lay out your content. These are just like WordPress page templates except you create them from the WordPress Dashboard. Insert shortcodes to decide which content you want to display and then add CSS and HTML to display it how you want to. - Aaron Terry

Telestream Episode® 6 is an all-in-one, multiformat encoding application designed for post production and new media workflows. It's the only cross-platform, multiformat software encoder on the market that scales from a desktop to a workgroup cluster. Episode accepts and transcodes more video and audio file formats than any other encoder in its class. - Aaron Terry

A suite of Javascript libraries & tools for building rich, interactive experiences with HTML5. - Aaron Terry

jQuery File Download is a cross server platform compatible jQuery plugin that allows for an Ajax-like file download experience that isn’t normally possible using the web. - Aaron Terry