Blogging from Guadec :) We’re spending a great time here at Vilanova! I finally met the co-workers from Fluendo Barcelona, very cool people. My lightning talk about Elisa went quite well, people seemed impressed, we are demoing our Python/Gstreamer/Twisted/OpenGL MediaCenter at the Fluendo booth.

Fluendo party monday …

Since few weeks i’ve been working on the next generation of this blog’s engine : Alinea3. While Alinea 2 was powered by Webware and ZPT, Alinea3 uses Quixote and Cheetah.

The database schema remained quite the same, except for the Roles layer which was added to provide a flow-engine-like …

In a previous post, i was discussing about Project name clashing. Since then i decided to find a new name for the Python/XML data binding project i’m maintaining … Which is EaseXML !

EaseXML 0.2.0 is out. I hope it won’t collapse with another project now :)

update …

Via DailyPython URL!

Gre7g Luterman: XMLObject_ [XMLObject is a Python module that simplifies the
handling of XML streams by converting the data into objects.]

That’s kind of fun and reminds me the story about Python ALSA wrappers. People do things in their corner. And the final lambda user get …

Python wrappers to ALSA seem to grow .. I’ve found 3 of them, including pyAlsa which is the first (correct me if i’m wrong). Anyway i believe there’s a need of merge between all of them .. why duplicate stuff if we can find a way to build a …

I admit my lacks in web design, that’s why spent few hours playing w/ CSS. First looked at one really kool from cssZenGarden, then used some of its design ‘items’ and whacked a nice image w/ Gimp (rotate, matrix transforms, cut / paste) to make the header you can admire …

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 …

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 !

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 …