Author Archives: Andrew Kuklewicz

Comatose Extensions

May 2, 2007 – 2:39 am

comatose is a lovely terse cms that you can integrate into a web application – unlike other rails cms systems which are the application. Thing is, terse is great until you need something it does not do.
At PRX we wanted to be able to upload/resize/attach images and files, have a preview mode [...]

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Weekend America covers Public Radio Talent Quest

April 21, 2007 – 11:24 pm

Weekend America has a segment this week, and a spot on their home page, about the public radio talent quest. Bill Radke interviews Jake Shapiro about the contest, and what it’ll take to win.

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Competition Begins for Public Radio ‘Idol’

April 2, 2007 – 9:06 pm

NY Times has some coverage today on the Talent Quest Competition that PRX has undertaken with a grant from CPB.
Contest opens April 16th – be or pick the next Ira Glass!
read more | digg story

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PRX uses ActiveMessaging

March 10, 2007 – 6:49 am

I just wrote up a post for the PRX blog about how we are using Amazon S3 and ActiveMessaging.
Have a look, there’s also a very short prez I gave at the IMA 2007 Conference showing how we use S3, ActiveMq, Rails, ActiveMessaging and other junk like that to make our systems hum.
Here it is again:

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Installing Apache 2 and PHP 5 on Mac OS X

March 4, 2007 – 5:05 am

Long ago I installed apache 2 instead of the lame-o version of apache that comes with OS X so I could use it to test rails configurations. Lately, I have been doing more work with Drupal (e.g. Public Radio Talent Quest), and messing with WordPress, so I wanted to run them locally to make [...]

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