Building a Video Delivery Network in 48 hours

Needed something for work and stumbled on CC @fowlduck

Last weekend, I participated in my first Rails Rumble. Rails Rumble is a 48-hour app building contest. We started from scratch Friday evening – you can have concepts and notes on paper, but no code or digital UI assets – and stopped Sunday evening, after 48 hours. You can use open-source code and public web services, and we made liberal use of both. Our team consisted of myself and three of the Sevenwire crew: @fowlduck , @brandonarbini , and @steveheffernan . That’s two developers (Nate and myself), one developer/UI combo (Brandon), and one UI guy (Steve). All in all, a really good mix for the app. We’re also the team behind two video encoding services : Zencoder and FlixCloud . Check out our app (and the 21 other great finalists) and vote at http://r09.railsrumble.com/entries . Voting ends this weekend, so do it soon. The App Our project was ZenVDN , a video distribution...

Full article: http://railspikes.com/2009/8/28/buiding-a-video-distribut...