SFX 6.x has a neat telnet feature that allows you to interface with the outside world in a rather easy way, sending commands to a remote system to perform some task. This article is about a Video Slide Service I wrote to assist with the video needs of a show I was working on at the time.
The service allows you to load video images, fade them on and off screen, and overlay text. ↓ Read the rest of this article…
It tooks hours to figure out why PHP cron jobs were not working on the godaddy web hosting. Even though the ‘cron job manager’ indicates it will email you errors, it doesn’t. After verifying that the configured jobs were actually running (using a simple echo and pipe to a file) I set out to find out why the php scripts seemed to not be working.
The bottom line is, that an important piece of required information was missing that would make things work correctly. Well, at least for my applications. I use the RPCL (VCL) for PHP (Delphi). ↓ Read the rest of this article…
This book claims that if you have a little knowledge and some skill, you should be able to diagnose and fix most problems you’ll encounter with your everyday electronic devices.
Let me know how well you fare.
Inevitably, a production schedule will be interrupted by a holiday. This usually means that the production team will be producing or reworking a program for a future release. For example, when Christmas is on a Tuesday, the team may need to create that program during the previous week, and release it to broadcasters early for inclusion in their air streams.
Producing a program for a future holiday fill is good practice, but inserting that into your POD cast stream early is not. The program must either be inserted into the stream at the proper moment, or made available in a different feed.
An example may help to clarify the problem, ↓ Read the rest of this article…
Being the keeper of several sites, I’ve written a few scripts to aid in monitoring these sites. The monitors generate an email for whatever particular event, and usually run periodically from a cron job. This PHP Error Log Monitoring script scans the site for any error logs, then emails the list of discovered logs to whomever for handling. ↓ Read the rest of this article…
Stage City Show Tunes in the Afternoon
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