Django is a "high-level Python Web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design." So far, I have absolutely no complaints... and much praise.

I like TextPattern a lot, but it doesn't seem to work well for programmers. I couldn't ever find a syntax highlighting plugin (that worked) for it, and even when I did figure out a way to post code TextPattern would try to format it.

So, I finally had a reason to learn Django, and here is the product. I even implemented my own syntax highlighting filter (Josh Simpson's idea to do this is actually what finally made me want to switch away from TextPattern in the first place):

I love trac. LOVE it. With the recent exaile.org hack, however, I wanted my bugs and code to be in a place that isn’t going anywhere soon. I chose Launchpad.

I'll admit. I didn't think this really happened to sites as small as exaile.org, where they are running Linux and not too many services, but I guess that type of thinking is what leads to these types of things...

Exaile now runs on Windows, and runs quite well. Thanks to the GStreamer and Songbird people who recently ported GStreamer to Windows...

I’m pleased to announce that Exaile gained a new developer last week – Aren Olson. Aren has been contributing here and there for a while now, and as of last week with his new plugin, daap-share.py. What is DAAP you might ask?

Exaile 0.2.10 is well on it’s way...

GNOME 2.18 introduced a new way for applications to handle multimedia keys. Previously you have to muck around with X events, while now GNOME does it for you and you can get control of mmkeys by requesting through D-Bus (to GNOME Control Center’s Settings Daemon). All good until you realise that for cross-desktop support you still need the old method anyway—unless, like Rhythmbox and Banshee, your app is GNOME-based.

This article shows how we support both methods in Exaile, and how you can do it, too.

Preventing spam on Trac...

Adam has kindly let me post here...

Been a few days since I made a post. I spent most of Friday in the hospital, so I have a good excuse. I'm still not 100%, so this post won't be all that technical...

I released Exaile 0.2.9 today knowing that it has a few issues with unicode. We've been waiting on these issues for a while now, but no one has a good solution yet. I'm hoping that with the added users from the release, we'll get some fresh eyes on the subject...

I do this every time I have to reinstall the OS on my work machine... and as you saw in the previous article, it's about that time again. I always forget to save the configuration files for it....

I've been running Ubuntu for a while now (since Warty). I usually end up dist-upgrading a few months early - which, thus far, has usually been a somewhat painless ordeal...

I came across the following code a while ago. I can't take credit for it, and I can't remember where I got it. Oh well. It's pretty cool nonetheless.

Here's a little info about how/why I got into vim...