Thoughts, ideas, and other such things I feel like putting here. About basically any topic.
For my playlist controller/generator application, I wanted to have a way to produce an accurate list length to reflect about one day’s worth of songs. I figured that if I knew how long every track was in my library, I should be able to get a good estimate as to how many tracks I could…
This may come as a shock to some people, but I have this itch to continually tweak my music playlist. It started with me having a set of songs I liked… And [un?]fortunately, this collection grew, and grew. Soon, I wanted to have a way to organize my music and ensure that I’m listening to…
I found this little jewel out on the ‘net, and feel a need to respond to the blatant misconstruing of what is or isn’t OK with World of Warcraft. I am a Christian (Confessional Lutheran, to be precise), and I also enjoyed playing World of Warcraft. I don’t like it when people muddy the name…
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Growing up, I was raised with the understanding that Halloween was a “pagan holiday” that was to not be celebrated at all. Our Halloween “tradition” was to put blankets over every window that could possibly leak light out of them on Halloween night, all cuddle around a single, solitary lamp in the back of the…
Part 1 Now that I had a XML file representing everything in my playlist, I needed to be able to actually use it within my Python script… so I could then, in turn, generate my daily playlist. I’m using PyPy, which is a rather unique variation of Python that can drastically speed up the performance…
Well, more or less. See, I have this collection of music I’ve transferred from a whole lot of CD’s I bought over the years onto my computer. I had an iPhone which I had used to play that music by using iTunes to create a dynamic playlist, and load that playlist onto my phone. Well……
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Ahh squid, how I love to hate to love you… most of the time, you work great for me. But sometimes… grr. Anyway… So here’s my problem — have squid (3.1.18) being used in both a transparent and reverse proxy configuration (transparent proxy for everything inside my network going out to the internet, reverse proxy…
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Something that has been bothering me for a little bit, and I’ve talked with my loving wife about, is the lyrics to a song that my little girl likes, called “Jonah”, by a published Christian children’s music artist from Bob Jones called “Patch the Pirate”. The song has a catchy tune, derived from the Sailor’s…
So… as my understanding of how to get my little programming projects rolled out matures, I have discovered Apache Maven…. and it really is quite nice for getting everything I was doing manually for the projects, done automatically. Building, distributing, constructing a project reporting site, running tests (finally have some testing built into my apps),…
A lot has happened to this little sub-project of mine. Originally simply a part of the ShowSort app, after breaking it out into its own project (see previous entry), I eventually moved it over to Google Code, completely segregating it from the ShowSort app into a project of its own. I then transitioned it over…