Yeah. I guess messing around with the syndication part of my blog system ended up causing openclue.org to repull all of my old blog posts all at once. Sorry...

So, according to the comments I've been getting on the Exaile 0.3 roundup article, people actually read this blog.

DropBox goes public

A nice fellow emailed and asked me if I could post a monthly (possibly weekly) roundup on Exaile 0.3 so that people can follow what's going on. It sounded like a good idea to me, so here's the first one.

Django 1.0 is finally here!!!

I recently purchased an EeePC 1000h, and I'm going to give a quick review here...

I downloaded the new iPhone software last Friday after my coworker informed me that there was a "Pandora Radio" application available on the AppStore. Internet radio on your phone? No brainer, had to have it...

Exaile is currently undergoing an almost complete rewrite. Why? Because the codebase could be better. Recently, thanks to Aren Olson, the 0.3 branch has been taking off. Already the code is a lot better, and will be a lot easier to add things to in the future.

As of this writing, you can create a collection, based on different libraries (directories). For each one of these directories, you can set a rescan interval, and/or have the library be watched by pyinotify for changes. You can create playlists, smart playlists, play these playlists in order or shuffle and/or on repeat. I am currently using it as my default player.

However: none of this can be done using a gui yet. This can all be done easily by using Exaile 0.3's pretty good looking internal API. Here is an example...

A few versions ago, Exaile had Last.FM streaming support using LastFMSource, a pygst plugin created by Philippe Normand of Elisa. It worked... sort of. Every other time you tried to connect to LastFM station, Gstreamer would lock up entirely, taking Exaile out with it. Not being able to fix this problem, it was eventually removed from Exaile entirely.

Enter: LastFM Proxy...

Yesterday I decided to upgrade from Gutsy Gibbon to Hardy Heron (beta 1). I usually upgrade early, but my main motivation for this was to be able to implement the new multimedia keys interface working in Exaile. Apparently, the Gnome crew decided to change this particular part of the DBus interface making it backwards incompatable. A description of the Exaile bug can be found here...

Our company is growing fast. When I started in March, 2003, we were hosting our website with some company in Texas. I assumed the position of "Systems Administrator" (I knew Linux fairly well at the time, but I had no formal training in administration) when we moved from the hosting company to our first dedicated server colocated at Xmission. Since that time, we moved from a shared rack to our own cabinet, now housing 10 servers (one is currently powered off, because if we turn it on, we risk blowing our power circuit... yes, we are waiting on a power upgrade)...

FireGPG is a Firefox extension that allows you to encrypt/decrypt/sign any textbox on any page. More than that, it integrates with Gmail so you can easily send and receive encrypted email! I've been using it for this feature alone as soon as I found out about it's existence. Now there really is no reason to use an IMAP client in my opinion...

At SendOutCards, we use MySQL replication to ensure that if our main database server goes down because of hardware failure, we'll still have an server that is up to date with our data. In a nutshell, our main database server sends another server every update that is performed on itself...

Vimtips.org is running the SVN version of Django. This morning I ran an svn update, and I ran into my first API change. While looking at my site later on in the day, I noticed that both of my template filters were being HTML escaped, IE, things like < were showing up as &lt;...

Sorry about the weird RSS problems my blog has been having.

Yup, this article is about the iPhone, so if you're sick of hearing about them, I'd advise you to move right along.

As stated on his blog, Josh Simpson came up with the idea of creating a Gallery/Gallery2 replacement in Django. He's rounded up me and a couple other of our good friends to tackle this project...

Django is a "high-level Python Web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design." So far, I have absolutely no complaints... and much praise.

I like TextPattern a lot, but it doesn't seem to work well for programmers. I couldn't ever find a syntax highlighting plugin (that worked) for it, and even when I did figure out a way to post code TextPattern would try to format it.

So, I finally had a reason to learn Django, and here is the product. I even implemented my own syntax highlighting filter (Josh Simpson's idea to do this is actually what finally made me want to switch away from TextPattern in the first place):

I love trac. LOVE it. With the recent exaile.org hack, however, I wanted my bugs and code to be in a place that isn’t going anywhere soon. I chose Launchpad.