Ever wanted to learn how Auttomatic is handling & scaling the massive WordPress.com installation of 25 Million+ blogs? And, how they deploy code updates and fixes across 3 data centers and 1000s of servers?
Check out the video below from WordCamp San Francisco (WordCampSF) 2011 and watch the talk of Mark Jaquith (WordPress core developer).
Please let me know in the comments below if you know of other great posts, videos, or, resources about scaling and deployment of WordPress. Thank you!
Great post over on Venture Beat about a collaborative film making project using a community to help making a full feature movie without the big budget available in Hollywood, called Star Wreck Studios builds permanent community for collaborative movie making:
If you’ve heard of the movie Star Wreck, then you’re already familiar with Star Wreck Studio’s operating procedure: Take a community of thousands of online movie-making buffs, and have them collaborate on a feature-length film.
Star Wreck, a $20,000 film, is said to be the most popular internet-created feature film of all time, with eight million downloads all around the world. At first the film was distributed free online, and eventually it was distributed by Universal Pictures as a premium DVD.
But the folks behind Star Wreck — Star Wreck Studios, based in Tampere, Finland — want to be more than just a one-hit wonder. They’ve now built up a permanent community site for their movie-making collaborators. The community’s called Wreck-a-Movie, and it’s already hard at work on two new film projects: A science fiction comedy about Nazis on the moon, Iron Sky, and a horror film called Sauna. On Wreck-a-Movie anybody interested in film can join the community and make plot and music proposals and comment on scenes.
This is the preview of the Star Wreck movie – Imperial Edition:
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And the venture beat post goes on with:
Star Wreck Studios compares its film projects to social networking and internet copyright-modifying movements such as Creative Commons. The intent is to create productions that are “clean” from a copy right perspective. That’s why the crew behind Wreck-a-Movie considers Creative Commons (CC) licensing to be very important, and Star Wreck Studios has John Buckman, one of the thought leaders on the use of CC in business, as chairman of the board.
Star Wreck Studios isn’t just about collaborative movie making, it’s also about collaborative movie viewing. It expects to use mobile technology, not only to view the content, but to create interactive experiences for its audience. For example, if you’re watching a horror flick, as a part of the plot, your phone rings, and when you answer, the person on the other end of the line is the main character of the movie.
“Because of the connected nature of mobile phones there are a lot of opportunities to do things like that. AppleTV, PlayStation 3 and mobile phones are all connected,” says Peter Vesterbacka, a cofounder and board member. He is also a cofounder of the global networking event Mobile Monday and a serial entrepreneur.
Check out the project and films realized using collaborative film making and online community efforts to drive the production of films.
I just installed a program and kernel extension which allows me to mount a remote server over SSH as a “normal drive” under MacOS X. Nothing brand new, but I did some research and thought I share what I found out to speed up other people who might need this.
Here is a description of the project and what you can do with it from the project’s page:
MacFUSE implements a mechanism that makes it possible to implement a fully functional file system in a user-space program on Mac OS X (10.4 and above). It aims to be API-compliant with the FUSE (File-system in USErspace) mechanism that originated on Linux. Therefore, many existing FUSE file systems become readily usable on Mac OS X. That said, MacFUSE has numerous user- and developer-visible interfaces that are specific to Mac OS X. The core of MacFUSE is in a dynamically loadable kernel extension.
Although MacFUSE has a completely different kernel-level implementation from Linux FUSE, it supports the FUSE specification well enough that many popular FUSE file systems can be easily compiled and made to work on Mac OS X–often out of the box. Examples of file systems that are known to work and were once tested (to varying degrees) include sshfs, ntfs-3g (read/write NTFS), ftpfs (read/write FTP), wdfs (WebDAV), cryptofs, encfs, bindfs, unionfs, beaglefs (yes, including the entire Beagle paraphernalia), and so on.
Do get you going you need to get three things: MacFUSE, SSHfs (to mount an external server over SSH) and the GUI for MacFUSE called MacFusion.
What is MacFusion?
MacFusion brings all sorts of information to your Mac in the form of files and folders displayed as just another “Volume” on your Mac desktop. Right now you can use this software to show a Secure Shell or Secure FTP share from another computer on your macs desktop, letting you manipulate the files on it as if they were on your own computer. MacFusion can also do the same for any File Transfer Protocol (FTP) server, giving read/write FTP in the finder for the first time!
First you have to grab the installer and the SSHfs from from the Googe code page at: http://code.google.com/p/macfuse/ , actually this page.
After installing MacFUSE and SSHfs all you need is the GUI called MacFusion from here and you are all set.
There is a newer version of MacFusion under development (at the time of the publication of this post still beta!):
Some other resources are:
Antoher GUI is called SecureRemoteDisk
Lifehacker – Geek to Live: Mount a file system on your Mac over SSH
It is out! The first professional movie rendered with the open source 3D renderer Blender. You can download it here. It is also distributed as a Torrent. I have downloaded the 425 MB version in about 2 h. The HD version with 5.1 Surround Sound took a bit more than 4 h. The original servers have been overloaded by requests at that time….
All production files and the movie are free for the public and can be viewed, studied and reused.
The film is about 10 mins long and very cool to watch with super nice sound effects! I do strongly recommend watching it!
This shows that “the public” is now able to produce professional film 3D rendered movies without the big pocket full of money! Let us see more!! Spread the word.
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