As 2014 winds down, we’ll take an opportunity to look back at some of our most-read posts from this year, in case you missed them the first time.
Brian Poteat contributed a few posts looking at the Meteor web application framework:
Meteor: Working with Accounts
In my last blog post I had just discovered the Meteor JavaScript-based web application platform. I have had a little more time to play with it and I am still having a lot of fun with it. On a personal project I was working on, I needed to add user accounts. The support for Accounts in the Meteor platform has left me incredibly impressed. Various accounts packages allow for the addition of account handling on the backend and on the user interface with minimal effort. Adding in support for popular authentication methods (such as Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc.) consists of adding a new accounts package.
Recording Audio & Video with HTML5 (co-starring Meteor)
A few weeks ago I got a germ of an idea in my head for a personal web-application that required recording and playing video, something with which I have had very little experience. I have seen how effortless is it to play video with HTML5 so I thought this would be simple. After searching countless sites looking for the HTML5 magic bullet for recording both audio & video, I had pretty much given up.
If you have stumbled upon this article also looking for a way to record audio & video together, you can stop searching now. I can say with fairly strong confidence that such a mechanism does not yet exist (as of the publish date of this article). However, I believe I have a workable solution for the time being.
Read the entire 2014 Review
