And since it would still be a bit of a hassle to get it to work on Linux and Mac I opted to not include it in j4cc. I had asked the author if I could redistribute Comskip, he said it would be OK but he did not say so very enthusiastically. The real issue was the author of Comskip asked for donations to use Comskip. Since j4cc strives to be cross platform it was harder to get it to work on Linux and Mac, but it was possible by using Wine. In the past it only would compile on Windows. Comskip is a terrific program that can detect commercials in a TV recording. When we were looking for a fix for this we noticed that a project called Comskip had also made a change.
We had to implement a method to use instead of this one line of code to fix the problem. The change that made caused this one line of code to fail. From our perspective it’s simple code, just one line of code called on a Java system class.
That site had made a change that caused the Java code we are using to fail. We realized we had a pretty bad bug in respect to fetching TV artwork from. Being basically a football and baseball fan, these few months during the cold of Winter are pretty boring. For us this time of year, TV is pretty bare boned as we are not interested much in the current live sports. Having said all that, recently we have been wanting to spend more time with the video we can record and watch for free. We understand not everyone feels this way, however it is nice to have the choice. Supporting content creators that you like through fees to these services and being AD-free is certainly our preference.
Since we have been streaming more through YouTube Red, Netflix, Amazon, iTunes, one gets used to commercial free viewing. It’s been kind of just working for us and over-the-air TV has been less of a priority and taking less of our viewing time. To be honest we haven’t been doing a lot of development of j4cc the last year or so. Take that hackers!!!! New Release of j4cc 1.2 As an author I create posts on my personal machine, generate the static site and then upload the static pages. So the j4cc new site is built using WordPress but served up statically on the server. I recently found a WordPress plugin that allows your site to be generated as static pages. And since WordPress is so popular there are many themes to use to make your site spiffy. Now jekyll is a very nice tool but it is not as easy to use as WordPress. Web servers are generally the strongest link in the chain when running site with a tool like WordPress. Static web pages take out things like PHP and databases. The reason it is close to unhackable is because the site is only static web pages. To avoid the hacking problem I chose to use jekyll for this j4cc site. Again this is a lot of work and really has to be done on a daily basis. To prevent WordPress from being hacked the maintainer needs to be very diligent on keeping WordPress, PHP, and even their web server updated so newly found vulnerabilities can be patched. But to be fair, security on the web is something that was just nailed on after the fact so it is a hard thing to do with any sort of framework. In my opinion it is because PHP isn’t the greatest with security. It’s still a tremendous amount of work to run a web site but the task is manageable using tools like WordPress.Ī problem with WordPress is that it is really easy to hack. Your average joe who knows nothing about programming can do WordPress. It makes the HTML generation an easy point and click and typing thing. It’s work! Programming is FUN!!!įortunately there have been projects like WordPress that make creating and maintaining a site easy.
I’m a software developer and to me doing markup is not programming. I have run many web sites over the years and to be honest, writing HTML is not a fun thing for me to do.