Wednesday, February 28, 2007
purchased video?
web traffic
embedding video...
If nothing else, simply add a <noembed> section which links to the actual video, as this example demonstrates:
<noembed><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkj4Wm6INFY">Click here to view video</a></noembed>]]>
A more user-friendly solution would be to include a <noembed> section that contains a thumbnail image of the video which links to the actual video.
Tuesday, February 27, 2007
Python 3000 - Google Video
Python 3000 road map, status, and what this means for the average Python user.
Source: Python 3000 - Google Video
Guido, creator of Python talks about what is going to be included in Python 3000. For instance, right now in Python 2.4 if you have a list such as:
>>> a_list = [2, 1, ""]
>>> a_list.sort()
You get back a sorted list:>>> a_list
[1, 2, '']
In Python 3000 you should get a TypeError.
One of the many items that might be useful to Python programmers coding future proof code, is covered by this talk.
Austin is being scobleized!
No, I’m not going to Microsoft’s MVP Summit. Instead SXSW in Austin is calling my name. Anyone want to meet up?
Dojo offline...
Screencast of Dojo Offline + Demo + Release Download
First, we have put up a screencast that shows a demo of Dojo Offline named Moxie. Moxie is an example application bundled with Dojo Offline that shows how to use the Dojo Offline framework. It is a web-based word processor that features local storage and offline access. Moxie is now finished for Dojo Offline.
Trying out clipmarks!
It’s not usual when I can get videos up of two companies breaking news (Ning and ClipMarks) all in the same night, but here’s the videos of ClipMarks: interview with Eric Goldstein, co-founder, and demo of ClipMarks by Eric.
I’m off to the Adobe Engage event, more later.
UPDATE: Rafe Needleman has more on ClipMarks here. TechMeme has more about ClipMarks 2.0 here.
Monday, February 26, 2007
On Basant...
kwrite, kate, and kedit
the base kde installation of libs+base now includes exactly one text editor application application, kwrite.
Sunday, February 25, 2007
On Blogging...
This blog is a hobby. It does three things for me. First, its a way for me to write, which I love. Second, it lets me have a voice, as small as it may be. Third, I get to log my daily technical learnings. Its not about money! I hope we are clear about that.
Now read and have fun. Best part of the blogosphere is that if you don't like what you read, or if it isn't any fun, you can always unsubscribe.
And now, I can just point my friends to this post every time they ask why I blog!
django stuff
I was working on an app of mine on a new machine, and installed django-0.95.1. Pulling my code of subversion, I ran into a problem. In urls.py, I would do something like this:
from myapp.views import some_func
Within urlpatterns I'd have something like this:
urlpatterns = patterns('',
(r'^$', some_func)
)
Which worked fine, until today. Now I'd get:
'function' object has no attribute 'rindex'
I finally figured out the problem was in the way I was calling some_func.
The way I fixed it was removing the line that imported some_func, and reworking the urlpatterns entry to read:
urlpatterns = patterns('',
(r'^$', 'myapp.views.some_func')
)
Saturday, February 24, 2007
worldofwarcraft, vista and intel 945GM
According to this forum thread, installing the latest drivers fixed the problem. The only problem was that each time I tried to run the installer, it would say that the driver has not been verified and would not be installed.
To get it to work, I ended up downloading the zipped driver, going to start (or that icon thing in vista), right click on computer, and go to manage. Click on device manager, display adapters, and right click on the Intel 945GM adaptor. Choose Update Driver Software, Browse My computer for driver software, let me pick from a list of device driver drivers on my computer, have disk, and browse to where you unpacked the zip file, and go into the graphics directory. Choose igdlh and then open. The driver should install, and hopefully you won't have the "driver not responding again".
Happy warcrafting!
Friday, February 23, 2007
Installing multiple OS's in a unique way...
Read on to find out how he did it.
Getting your RSS reader to open articles in a new tab...
I wanted to be able to let Akregator open the links I click in tabs instead of scattering windows all over the desktop.
RSS readers and web browsers are intertwined. The way I read RSS feeds is scanning through google reader, and middle clicking to have the article open in a tab in the background, so that I can read it later. I like using an external web browser. Sometimes I like to try other RSS readers, and usually on Linux, I've had the problem that the article opens up in a new browser window. True to open source style, the author above hacks a solution to this problem for Akregator+Konqueror combo.
YUI hosting
Having too many components of a web page placed on a separate server slows the loading of the page. Further, if a third party service goes down, your page goes into an endless loading cycle, or is not displayed properly. Just the other day, delicious was having problems, and the recent links section in the sidebar was not loading. It was a problem.
Here is why I've been thinking about this problem.
Thursday, February 22, 2007
soundsource
Number of subscribers to a feed equals...
powershell
ls | out-file "dir-listing.txt" (where out-file is a cmdlet)
The above will output a file listing, and the out-file cmdlet will write that to a file called "dir-listing.txt" in the current directory.
"cat dir-listing.txt" to check file contents.
You can download powershell from here.
Wednesday, February 21, 2007
From the why can't we all just get along dept
Komodo Edit
Tuesday, February 20, 2007
kubuntu on e1405
Promote please!
http://www.dellideastorm.com/article/show/62636/Builtin_mic_should_work_with_Linux
Monday, February 19, 2007
Saturday, February 17, 2007
On Dell...
Here is Micheal on what ideaStorm is.
Man I wish my Dell I ordered yesterday would get here. I might have an ideastorm or two. It shipped yesterday.
I found this on dmwmedia.com
TechCrunch points out, however, that IdeaStorm does not arrive without a question mark. Marshall Kirkpatrick, the article’s author, writes, “the second most popular submission as I write this is a call for a separate, internal IdeaStorm site for Dell employees. That makes me question how enthusiastic Dell’s employees will be about IdeaStorm.”
And my question is, as a Dell employee why would I want a separate site? I'm a customer too! Maybe I'm missing something.
And I found this interesting as well:
Update 2: I find is disappointing that after months (or is it years now) that the blogosphere has criticized Dell to listen and join the conversation that when Dell does something potentially amazing that folks miss the whole point and make it a Dell copies Digg meme rather than focusing on what’s really important –Dell is opening up to build better products.
Friends, please see the forest, not the branches on the trees.
Now if only we could get Robert Scoble hooked up with Lionel Menchaca for an interview!
GNOME wars?!?
Personally I am a KDE fan. knetworkmanager is the killer app that makes Linux on a laptop possible for average users. Now if only we could get Laptops with Linux to do better power management.
Friday, February 16, 2007
Read/Write web popping up again and again
Their have been a couple of interesting stories on read/write web lately.
This story on Offline app support in Firefox 3.
This story of Yahoo! Pipes and the web as a database.
The above story even got a Dave Winer post.
And then today was a story on Dell. (Ok, maybe this one is really interesting just to me! :)
outlet.dell.com
Did you know about outlet.dell.com where you can buy refurbished dell machines? I didn't until a week ago.
Channel 9
Perhaps its Scoble's enthusiasm or passion, or his really loud and excited laugh. But ever since Scoble left channel 9, I haven't been able to watch more than five minutes of a channel 9 video. Perhaps it was how the camera was always moving, looking at the screen, following the conversation. I keep clicking on the channel9 videos, as they show up on techmeme, but it just isn't fun any more.
On the other hand, every scobleshow video is watched completely. Take this scobleshow video for instance.
Blogger, the forgotten child
Google releases a new feature, and wouldn't you know it. Blogger users are left out in the cold watching others have all the fun.
Servers at home
The cost of leaving your PC on
Am I glad that my electricity bill is included in apartment rent. What with having at least three machines on at all times.
Friday, February 02, 2007
beryl
And my friends wonder why in the world I would need a couple of more systems to play around with! :D
Vista Upgrade
Its upgrading right now, and the installation dialog says at the bottom:
"Your upgrade may take several hours to complete"!
Thankfully it didn't take several hours, just one, and the install was pretty normal after that.
Mozilla and hypocrisy
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