Tools on Shane Cunningham

Streaming Video

Sat, 21 Jan 2012 16:12:55 +0000

I’ve come across some streaming video software that works really well for me. Here’s what I use to stream to various devices.

Home Server –> Mac –> StreamToMe
Home Server –> iPad –> AirVideo
Home Server –> PlayStation 3 –> PS3 Media Server

Sublime Text 2

Thu, 27 Oct 2011 08:13:00 +0000

I’ve been trying out this new editor and like it so far. Once again I needed to delete a bunch of empty lines, found the following that worked.

Find
Select regular expression
Search for ^$
Find all, delete

Delete blank lines in TextMate

Mon, 10 Oct 2011 15:15:00 +0000

Switching to Mac OS X I have noticed opening text files that were created in Windows will add spaces after every line. In TextMate you can create a macro to get rid of the extra lines very easily. In the Bundle Editor add the following command and tie it to a key combination.

sed /^$/d

Blitz.io

Fri, 02 Sep 2011 08:36:00 +0000

I came across a new tool that uses node.js to test load and performance on your website or app. I haven’t researched load testing very much but this seems like the simplest way to see how your site reacts to thousands (or more) connection attempts. Check it out.

Blitz.io

Air Video

Sun, 22 May 2011 08:34:54 +0000

I don’t purchase a lot of apps for my iPad, but Air Video was one of the few. Air Video streams video to your iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch from a server that runs on Windows or OS X. The thing that impressed me so much was how well the remote access works. I can stream all of my videos from my server at home to my iPad wherever I am as long as I have a WiFi connection. No loops to jump through, SSH to setup, or ports to forward. Performance was flawless even though I was running the server from a virtual machine with a network share to stream my videos, on an iSpot WiFi pipe!. It just flat out works.