Looks like Raster has been hacking on a media center thingy. So far it looks great, i’ve watched the demo video, installed rage in no time and got it running in, well, even less time :) I must say i’m really impressed by the look and feel of the …

Del.icio.us folks added the so awaited private bookmarks saving support. That’s a great step for this service, i need it to save links to private websites or htaccess protected websites or even job-related locations.

By default the new option is not activated, and once active you need …

Last month i moved from Brest to Lyon, for a new job. I’m now working with Fluendo folks on a Gstreamer/Python media center open-source project since March 1st.

The project is very ambitious, the plan is to provide a cross-platform, great looking media-center supported by a community of …

Gstreamer based python audio player in no time

I’m learning to develop with Gstreamer 0.10 framework, which natively comes with Python binding, which is rare enough to notice for a project.

So, starting an audio player is quite simple:

• create a player from the GstElement factory
• give your …

This time i focused on plugin API management. To me the best way to handle this is to use interfaces.

I wasn’t motivated enough to dig in PEAK’ PyProtocols so i picked up an ASPN recipe, did some magic-cooking and came up with a base Plugin class and an …

Plugin developers often want to supply data files (web templates, images, etc) with their package, let’s see how to do this using setuptools resource management system.

If there are still some lazy people reading this, get an updated version of the code. So, on your plugin’s setup.py …

Eggs are being more and more used in Python land. One thing Python developers can do easily with them is plugins cooking. They are used in Paste*, TurboGears and Trac for instance, so i wanted to see how to design a simple mini plugins based system.

The main requirement here …

I just wanted to share a very cool blog i’ve found few days ago. It’s about those little cute thingies:

Here it is : http://mfrost.typepad.com/cute_overload/

I’ve just watched TurboTunes screencast … CatWalk seems to be a good piece of code which puts SQLObject in all its userfriendly point-an-click glory ! It made me think about Django’s CRUD admin sites in some aspects, though Django seems a bit simpler in that particular field, in terms of …

Aujourd’hui j’ai recu ma dernière facture FranceTelecom : un avoir de 21€ :) Et oui, je suis en dégroupage total chez le N9uf depuis fin octobre:

• Téléphonie illimitée (bluffé par la qualité de la VoIP)
• Conservation du n° FT
• VoiceMail
• TV (enfin, normalement … QQ1 prête …