Author Archives: MaximFridental

When testing IPTV projects, it is always a good idea to perform the following test:   1) Start the playback 2) Put on pause 3) Wait VERY LONG time (30 minutes or so) 4) Put again on playing and/or try to use the app

Just installed Windows 7 on one of my dev PC. Yet another advantage of having several PCs.

An interesting reading for everybody working in IPTV projects: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc189080(VS.95).aspx   Did you know Silverlight doesn’t support odd (not dividable by two) video pixel sizes?

An interesting video about SEO basics.   The most important knowledge: 1) Good SEO: proper page + proper links 2) Proper page: Title tag filled according to the content Description tag filled accordingly Keywords are ignored these days. There is one and only one H1 tag containing page title. To be on the safe side, …

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What a great thing! I will definitely recommend to use it for our SL to server and MediaCenter to server communications.

I’ve compared SQL based data access layer with LINQ based one for a concrete use case: building a REST web service for high load systems.   My résumé reads as follows:   Generally, I would prefer to use SQL DAL for production code in high-loaded REST service systems. Not only it allows controlling all performance-relevant …

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http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/2606   May be, Ruby could play the role of a bridge language to attract mainstreamers to Smalltalk.

• System Items: Certificates, COM+, Console, Date and Time, Drives, Environment Variables, Event Logs, Files and Folders, GAC, Network, Performance Counters, Registry, Services, Sound • Code: Assemblies, CAB Files, Code Signing, File Detokenisation, GUID’s, Mathematics, Strings, Threads, Zip • Applications: BizTalk 2006, Email, IIS7, MSBuild, SourceSafe, StyleCop, Team Foundation Server, Visual Basic 6, WMI http://www.codeplex.com/MSBuildExtensionPack

The following limitations have according to my experience with Silverlight to date the biggest impact on the architecture and feature set of IPTV applications:

“When a young child first rides a bicycle, the bike is often equipped with training wheels to make learning easier. […]  But the full capabilities of the bicycle cannot be exploited while using training wheels—you certainly never see anyone in a bicycle race using them.” “Businesses can’t win the competitive race using training wheels.”   …

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