Exaile.org gets hacked!

Published: Aug 21, 2007

I'll admit. I didn't think this really happened to sites as small as exaile.org, where they are running Linux and not too many services, but I guess that type of thinking is what leads to these types of things...

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Handling multimedia keys in GNOME 2.18

Published: May 16, 2007

GNOME 2.18 introduced a new way for applications to handle multimedia keys. Previously you have to muck around with X events, while now GNOME does it for you and you can get control of mmkeys by requesting through D-Bus (to GNOME Control Center’s Settings Daemon). All good until you realise that for cross-desktop support you still need the old method anyway—unless, like Rhythmbox and Banshee, your app is GNOME-based.

This article shows how we support both methods in Exaile, and how you can do it, too.

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Exaile 0.2.10 expectations

Published: Apr 3, 2007

Been a few days since I made a post. I spent most of Friday in the hospital, so I have a good excuse. I'm still not 100%, so this post won't be all that technical...

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Exaile 0.2.9 released

Published: Mar 27, 2007

I released Exaile 0.2.9 today knowing that it has a few issues with unicode. We've been waiting on these issues for a while now, but no one has a good solution yet. I'm hoping that with the added users from the release, we'll get some fresh eyes on the subject...

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Decorator fun in Python

Published: Mar 26, 2007

I came across the following code a while ago. I can't take credit for it, and I can't remember where I got it. Oh well. It's pretty cool nonetheless.

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