Hi, I’m John Adams, an Internet developer, network engineer, and Systems Administrator (I don’t sleep much.)

Here I’ll discuss emerging technologies for web development (Ruby/Rails, Python, and other web frameworks), streaming media (audio and video), Syndication of content, and scaling issues related to media in general.

I currently work for a medium-sized streaming media company, serving massive amounts of video-on-demand content to subscribers, and have worked in the Internet industry for nearly 18 years. In the past, I’ve worked at many companies, like Apple and c|net, building security and large scale infrastructures to support your favorite web applications.

My recent work includes The San Francisco Bay Guardian, research into distributed media storage and delivery, and an automated XML/RSS feed system using Ruby/Rails.