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• What Every Programmer Should Know

  24 décembre 2012, par Multimedia Mike — General

  During my recent effort to force myself to understand Unicode and modern text encoding/processing, I was reminded that this is something that “every programmer should just know”, an idea that comes up every so often, usually in relation to a subject in which the speaker is already an expert. One of the most absurd examples I ever witnessed was a blog post along the lines of “What every working programmer ought to know about [some very specific niche of enterprise-level Java programming]“. I remember reading through the article and recognizing that I had almost no knowledge of the material. Disturbing, since I am demonstrably a “working programmer”.

  For fun, I queried the googles on the matter of what ever programmer ought to know.

  Specific Topics
  Here is what every programmer should know about : Unicode, time, memory (simple), memory (extremely in-depth), regular expressions, search engine optimization, floating point, security, basic number theory, race conditions, managed C++, VIM commands, distributed systems, object-oriented design, latency numbers, rate monotonic algorithm, merging branches in Mercurial, classes of algorithms, and human names.

  Broader Topics
  20 subjects every programmer should know, 97 things every programmer should know, 12 things every programmer should know, things every programmer should know (27 items), 10 papers every programmer should read at least twice, 10 things every programmer should know for their first job.

  Meanwhile, I remain fond of this xkcd comic whose mouseover text describes all that a person genuinely needs to know. Still, the new year is upon us, a time when people often make commitments to bettering themselves, and it couldn’t hurt (much) to at least skim some of the lists and find out what you never knew that you never knew.

  What About Multimedia ?
  Reading the foregoing (or the titles of the foregoing pieces), I naturally wonder if I should write something about what every programmer should know about multimedia. I think it would look something like a multimedia programming FAQ. These are some items that I can think of :

  1. YUV : The other colorspace (since most programmers are only familiar with RGB and have no idea what to make of the YUV that comes out of most video decoding APIs)
  2. Why you can’t easily seek randomly to any specific frame in a video file (keyframe/interframe discussion and their implications)
  3. Understand your platform before endeavoring to implement multimedia software (modern platforms, particularly mobile platforms, probably provide everything you need in the native APIs and there is likely little reason to compile libavcodec for the platform)
  4. Difference between containers and codecs (longstanding item, but I would argue it’s less relevant these days due to standardization on the MPEG — MP4/H.264/AAC — stack)
  5. What counts as a multimedia standard in this day and age (comparing the foregoing MPEG stack with the WebM/VP8/Vorbis stack)
  6. Trade-offs to consider when engineering a multimedia solution
  7. Optimization doesn’t always work the way you think it does (not everything touted as a massive speed-up in the world of computing — whether it be multithreaded CPUs, GPGPUs, new SIMD instruction sets — will necessarily be applicable to multimedia processing)
  8. A practical guide to legal issues would not be amiss
  9.  ???

  What other items count as “something multimedia-related that every programmer should know” ?

• GDPR compliance for Matomo’s Premium Features like Heatmaps & Session Recording, Form Analytics, Media Analytics & co

  27 avril 2018, par InnoCraft

  The General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679, also referred to as RGPD in French, Datenschutz-Grundverordnung, DS-GVO in German, is fast-approaching. It is now less than 30 days until GDPR applies to most businesses around the world on 25th May 2018. If you haven’t heard of this new regulation yet, I recommend you check out our GDPR guide which we continue to expand regularly to get you up to speed with it.

  GDPR compliance in Matomo

  We are currently adding several new features to Matomo to get you GDPR ready. You will have for example the possibility to delete and export data for data subjects, delete and anonymize previously tracked data, anonymize the IP address and location, ask for consent, and more. A beta version with these features is already available. We will release more blog posts and user guides about these features soon and just recently published a post on how to avoid collecting personal information in the first place soon.

  If you are still using Piwik, we highly recommend you update to a recent version of Matomo as all versions of Piwik will NOT be GDPR compliant.

  GDPR compliance for premium features

  InnoCraft, the company of the makers of Matomo, are offering various premium features for your self-hosted Matomo so you can be sure to make the right decisions and continuously grow your business. These features are also available on the cloud-hosted version of Matomo.

  If you are now wondering how GDPR applies to these features, you will be happy to hear that none of them collect any personal information except for possibly Heatmaps & Session Recording and the WooCommerce integration. All of them also support all the new upcoming GDPR features like the possibility to export and delete data. It is important that you update your Matomo Premium Features to the latest version to use these features.

  Making Heatmaps & Session Recording GDPR compliant

  We have added several new features to make it easy for you to be GDPR compliant and in many cases you might not even have to do anything. Some of the changes include :

  • Keystrokes (text entered into form fields) are no longer captured by default.
  • You may enable the capturing of keystrokes, and all keystrokes will be anonymized by default.
  • You may whitelist certain form fields to be recorded in plain text. However, fields that likely contain personal or sensitive information like passwords, phone numbers, addresses, credit card details, names, email addresses, and more will be always anonymized to protect user privacy. (this has always been the case but we have now included many more fields).

  How personal information may still be recorded

  Nevertheless, Heatmaps and Session Recordings may still record personal or sensitive information if you show them as part of the regular website as plain text (and not as part of a form field). The below example shows an email address for a paypal account as well as a name and VAT information as a regular content.

  

  To anonymize such information, simply add a data-matomo-mask attribute to your website :

  <span data-matomo-mask>example@example.com</span>

  You can read more about this in the developer guide “Masking content on your website”.

  WooCommerce Integration

  The WooCommerce integration may record an Order ID when a customer purchases something on your shop. As the Order ID is an identifier which could be linked with your shop to identify an individual, it may be considered as personal information. Matomo now offers an option to automatically anonymize this Order ID so it is no longer considered as personal information. To enable this feature, log in to your Matomo and go to “Administration => Anonymize Data”.

  GDPR compliance for third party plugins on the Matomo Marketplace

  The Matomo Marketplace currently features over 80 free plugins. Over 50 of them are compatible with the latest Matomo 3.X version and most of them should support Matomo’s new GDPR features out of the box. If you are concerned by GDPR and are not sure if a third party plugin stores any personal information, we highly recommend you ask the developer of this plugin about the compliance.

  You can find a link to the plugin’s issue tracker by going to a plugin page and then clicking on “Github” on the bottom right.

  

  If you are a plugin developer, please read our developer guide “GDPR & How do I make my Matomo plugin compliant”.

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• Progress with rtc.io

  12 août 2014, par silvia

  At the end of July, I gave a presentation about WebRTC and rtc.io at the WDCNZ Web Dev Conference in beautiful Wellington, NZ.

  

  Putting that talk together reminded me about how far we have come in the last year both with the progress of WebRTC, its standards and browser implementations, as well as with our own small team at NICTA and our rtc.io WebRTC toolbox.

  

  One of the most exciting opportunities is still under-exploited : the data channel. When I talked about the above slide and pointed out Bananabread, PeerCDN, Copay, PubNub and also later WebTorrent, that’s where I really started to get Web Developers excited about WebRTC. They can totally see the shift in paradigm to peer-to-peer applications away from the Server-based architecture of the current Web.

  Many were also excited to learn more about rtc.io, our own npm nodules based approach to a JavaScript API for WebRTC.

  

  We believe that the World of JavaScript has reached a critical stage where we can no longer code by copy-and-paste of JavaScript snippets from all over the Web universe. We need a more structured module reuse approach to JavaScript. Node with JavaScript on the back end really only motivated this development. However, we’ve needed it for a long time on the front end, too. One big library (jquery anyone ?) that does everything that anyone could ever need on the front-end isn’t going to work any longer with the amount of functionality that we now expect Web applications to support. Just look at the insane growth of npm compared to other module collections :

  

  For those that – like myself – found it difficult to understand how to tap into the sheer power of npm modules as a font end developer, simply use browserify. npm modules are prepared following the CommonJS module definition spec. Browserify works natively with that and “compiles” all the dependencies of a npm modules into a single bundle.js file that you can use on the front end through a script tag as you would in plain HTML. You can learn more about browserify and module definitions and how to use browserify.

  For those of you not quite ready to dive in with browserify we have prepared prepared the rtc module, which exposes the most commonly used packages of rtc.io through an “RTC” object from a browserified JavaScript file. You can also directly download the JavaScript file from GitHub.

  

  So, I hope you enjoy rtc.io and I hope you enjoy my slides and large collection of interesting links inside the deck, and of course : enjoy WebRTC ! Thanks to Damon, JEeff, Cathy, Pete and Nathan – you’re an awesome team !

  On a side note, I was really excited to meet the author of browserify, James Halliday (@substack) at WDCNZ, whose talk on “building your own tools” seemed to take me back to the times where everything was done on the command-line. I think James is using Node and the Web in a way that would appeal to a Linux Kernel developer. Fascinating !!