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Fri, 15 Aug 2008 16:35:00 in Programming | permalink
I've updated my Last.fm tag renaming utility.
Mon, 21 Apr 2008 14:08:00 in Programming | permalink
Tags: linux mplayer python watchdog watchdogdev
One of my projects is a Linux-based embedded device for playing commercials. The software part is a Python application controlling an MPlayer process in slave mode.
To make the whole system more fault-tolerant I wanted to use watchdog timer which would reboot the machine in case of software failure. Thus I needed to talk to Linux watchdog driver from my Python application. The Linux watchdog API defines a number of ioctl commands which can be sent to the driver. So, I wrote an extension module which enables Python programms to use Linux watchdog API.
Wed, 19 Mar 2008 11:05:00 in Programming | permalink
Tags: apache cherrypy debian linux python turbogears virtualmin webmin
Recently Matvey (thanks dude!) has set up a new Virtualmin hosting platform on Debian GNU/Linux. When I was migrating timka.org to this new platform I found out that Virtualmin is actually very powerful and nicely integrated with Apache in Debian. Looking at all these new features and capabilities I thought that I could try to use them for running home-based TurboGears applications on Virutalmin's virtual hosts.
Wed, 30 Jan 2008 11:38:00 in Programming | permalink
Tags: linux python setuptools
Many popular Python libraries are available in various Linux distributions. However, it is not always possible and/or desirable to install them from packages. For instance, sometimes you don't have root access to the target machine or just want to have other vesrion of some library isolated under your home directory.
I've been successfully using this approach on my laptop and several development and production sites for about two years so far.
Sat, 26 Jan 2008 20:01:00 in Programming | permalink
Tags: blog python timka.org wadcomblog
I've been looking for some simple static blog engine and stumbled upon WadcomBlog by Vlad Skvortsov.
Thu, 01 Feb 2007 in Programming | permalink
Tags: id3 mutagen python tagging
Recently I've stumbled upon some MP3 files containing no tags. I tried to tag these files using Quodlibet but it appeared to be impossible. After a breif investigation of the problem I found out that it's just raw MPEG Layer III streams with no proper ID3 headers. In order to fix this I decided to write a Python script.
Mon, 22 Jan 2007 in Programming | permalink
Tags: htmlparser httplib last.fm python tagging xml-rpc
Updated 2008-08-15. Works with new Last.fm.
I've written a Python program for renaming tags on Last.fm.