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I'm pleased to present you with part one of a two part series on creating a photo site using PHP, jQuery, and AJAX. Originally, I intended to fit the entire tutorial into one screencast, but that quickly became a pipe dream as I realized that there was simply too much to cover. Nevertheless, even if you only watch this first video, you should learn a great deal. We'll be retrieving images from a database, creating a simple login form with authentication, and will then allow for our database to be asynchronously updated. Sounds good? If so, let's get into it.

Panda is an open source solution for video uploading, encoding and streaming. Unlike other video platforms, Panda is not just a service for encoding your videos for the web; Panda handles the whole process. From the upload form to streaming, Panda takes control. By providing an elegant REST API, Panda makes it completely painless to implement full video uploading, encoding and streaming functionality to your web application in a matter of hours. * Runs completely within Amazon's Web Services utilising EC2, S3 and SimpleDB. * Everything contained within one elegant Merb application. * Support for the numerous encoding profiles FFmpeg supports including FLV, h264 for Flash a iPhone formats. * Panda gem for painless integration with Ruby on Rails and Merb. * Lovely little admin dashboard for managing your videos.