InfoQ: Rich Hickey on Datomic: Datalog, Databases, Persistent Data Structures
Rich waxing poetic about Datomic and why it rawks.
Some day soon I really need to dig in and figure out this product.
How To Convert Any Video To iPod Format In A Snap
I recently discovered that the amazing HandBrake app added support (or perhaps always had support for?) for formats other than VIDEO_TS. This is amazing, because it’s command line interface is one of the simplest permutations of video encoding if your only goal is to get that file into a format understood by Apple devices.
Because this blew my mind so much, I figured other people might have their mind blown to. This only covers OS X w/ bash, but you could easily extend this to other OSes that have support for HandBrake.
Maybe the simplest way to do it is to just cd into the directory containing the files you want and do a simple for loop with a bash wildcard.
for f in *.flv; do handbrake -Z iPod -i "$f" -o "$f".mp4; done
The next step up would be to do a sweet find … | xargs command. Perhaps the ultimate solution would be a find-dired solution.
Hmm…
