Having lived in Europe for the last 6 years, my family have come to love watching football tournaments. We got hooked while in Croatia in 2016, watching the games in outside pubs overlooking the sea, but the tradition held through the 2018 World Cup (camping on the wet Ireland coast, football was a great excuse … Continue reading When Live Streams go bad: ITV and the Euros
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Later this month (June 2020), I am speaking at the 'virtual' ImageCon. All of the speakers were invited to record their talks in advance, and the talks will be posted on the website. I wanted to have more fun than the suggested "just record your talk in Zoom and share the link," and decided to … Continue reading Creating a Virtual Conference Talk: Part 2 Syncing Videos
Later this month (June 2020), I am speaking at ImageCon, a virtual conference hosted by Cloudinary. We were all supposed to meet in person in April, but like many in person events, it has transitioned into a virtual conference. Virtual conferences place a whole new set of requirements on organisers - do you risk a … Continue reading Building a Virtual Conference Talk
Online tracking is something we are all aware is happening. And, like it or not - if a product is free - you are not the customer - you are the product being sold. Facebook has gotten in to a load of trouble with how it handles private information... yet it probably has more information … Continue reading Facebook Security: Time for a checkup
Video content on the the web is increasing - with such an immersive medium - it is pretty much a . no brainer. However, a few months ago, I looked into how the web is using video on the web, and found that slow video startup times and stalls are much more common than we … Continue reading Video Playback Metrics: New Synthetic Testing Tool StreamOrNot
Doug Sillars: Performance Expert and Developer Advocate 