A talk about implementing a gem for communicating with the open source MythTV software, streaming and transcoding recordings on the fly with the aid of Mongrel, and viewing them using a custom interface written using RubyCocoa on Mac OS X. The talk will be a whistlestop tour of the various aspects of getting all this working.
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Matt Wood is going to give a talk about the work he\'s been doing with rails at work foir the Human Genome Project. This talk will cover the infrastructure required to handle multi-petabyte, highly scalable systems and how we are using Rails to quickly build flexible software to support this effort.
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