Social bookmarking systems are spreading these days. The most popular one seems to be delicious .. People store their bookmarks, each bookmark has a set of keywords helping fast research.

Few days ago i found another one, Simpy. Don’t confuse with a software of the same hosted on SF. Simpy …

Tonight I upgraded my firefox debian package, re-installed my favorites extensions (mozex,webDeveloper, …) and Bookmarks Synchronizer. Well last time I tested it, there was support for FTP only, but now the thing can handle HTTP(S) PUT :) That’s was THE missing feature, I love it now, it’s a …

Time to release ? iAggregator is an original and lightweight news aggregator, using your mail reader as GUI. Hey man, mutt rox.

Funny iAggregator features are:

• supports all RSS formats through Mark Pilgrim modules (the parser has been rewrote using DOM instead of sgmllib)
• possibility to define the frequency of feeds …

Few days since last post ;)

Just compiled a CVS HEAD snapshot of fdo, and using the xserver-inst shell script compiled it in a snap. It’s been few months since my first test and I see the difference.

After a little issue on xserver compilation (disable mesa drivers in xserver …

From Waimea website:

Waimea is a highly customizable window manager for the X Window system
conforming to the latest EWMH specification. Waimea supports multiple
virtual desktops and by using the cairo graphics library for all
rendering, waimea provides a modern vector-based style engine that
takes advantage of display hardware acceleration …

Who said Guns N’ Roses were dead ? Well in fact the group is dead, but Slash and Duff Mc Kagan created a new band called Velvet Revolver. And … as we say in France “Ca déchire sa grand-mère” !!

The first release of XMLObject is out. This is a small project I started after writting this post. I tried to apply on Pypi but it seems to be bugged w/ email sending :( Anyway annoucement on Freshmeat should come shortly :)

XMLObject is hosted on http://xmlobject.base-art.net/

— Enjoy !

Kahakai WindowManager gained my flavours. Even if it is dead right now (just as like Golem ? :) it is really fun for Python agnostics as I. You configure it in Python, you script it in Python:

• eye candy stuff like smooth transitions
• applications specific actions (user_config.py)
• whatever you can imagine …

In ResPyre project context, Regis Prevot wrote a python binding for ALSA. Because I believe his work could be usefull for other developpers, here is a first version of alsamodule.

This first version supports ALSA mixer. You can get, change, mute, unmute volume on audio channels. Here is a little …

Obviously I’m not the first to believe in the power of Python to ease XML management. Of course there are DOM and SAX which are meant to provide uniform (whatever language we use) XML APIs. After using these for a little while, I’m now convinced OO features should …