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Oct13Web App ‘n’ Widget Frenzy

It has most definately been a busy ole month in the development department here at OC Vision.

We’re currently working on an Equine Insurance Web-App which is due to launch in November, just finished an OS X widget for Mike Golding Yacht Racing, another 2 widgets in the pipeline and a Web App for Puma Ocean Racing just launched!

We’re very pleased with http://media.pumaoceanracing.com - our latest web-app to hit the interweb! It is simply bursting with exciting technologies such as ‘Distributed Storage’ (from the great guys at Amazon S3), Video Streaming and Live Conversion technologies from the guys over at SesameVault (http://www.sesamevault.com) and all built on a Ruby on Rails Platform.

The site is a media portal for the Puma Sponsored ‘Il Mostro’ Volvo 70 currently taking part in the Volvo Ocean Race which started last weekend. It allows registered users to log in and retrieve hi-res images as well as video in multiple formats during the race.

All processing is done behind the scenes, with the media team simply uploading single image and the system takes the image, extracts IPTC/EXIF data, creates mid-res and thumbnail images and uploads it to S3 for distributed storage.

As for video, Quicktime files are uploaded using FTP and then using the secure admin panel, videos are processed and converted into MP4, Flash, 3GP and Ogg Vorbis.

Aug19Vendée Globe Preview

It’s that time again! The 2008 - 2009 Vendée Globe starts on 9th November. Here’s a little taster from the last event…

Jul08Sea Safety Site

We are very pleased to say, that after a long period of consultation and development (working with a partner design agency) our work on the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA, a government agency website) is now live at www.mcga.gov.uk.

OC Vision worked within the boundaries of Government standards to develop the XHTML and CSS, allowing the in-house web team to plug the delivered templates into their own Content Management System.

OC Vision were challenged with designs, not typical for a Gov agency, that needed to be compliant to the latest website standards.

Our customers are often sailing, and racing on the seas covered by the MCA, so it’s nice to see our work delivering to an often undervalued emergency service.

Apr01Same place, different engine.

We’re pleased to have upgraded our own blog to the newley released Wordpress 2.5. There’s a great number of improvements, and so far (1 post!) it’s looking really good.

The biggest change with this new release is a complete overhaul of the user interface, with a great new design from Zeldman, Santa-Maria et al at Happy Cog Studios. It looks and feels great and I am sure will lead changes in site designs across the blog-o-verse (new word?)

Keep watching….. More blogs to upgrade!

Oct01Daily Dilbert hits the mark

Todays daily Dilbert cartoon made this weeks Monday morning go with a chuckle…Daily Dilbert

Liven up your day - www.dilbert.com

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