This post is meant for people who want to know what it will be like to enter the Federal Employment Office for the first time. Of course, this will be a purely subjective story.
There are two good reasons to visit the office, even when you don’t have trouble to find work:
Get the status of “seeking [...]
And another one of my small apps is finished.
When you have a party at your house, it’s sometimes difficult to find out what music people would like to listen to. But we got this great last.fm network, right? Why not use this information to create a special party playlist? And that’s what my code does.
Find [...]
Maybe (or maybe not) you know that situation: You’re with friends, have a laptop full of movies (all legally purchased of course), but you can’t decide what to watch. Of course you have an ugly file list, and maybe a file manager preview but it’s just all now very usable, because it’s not intuitive.
Wouldn’t it [...]
I have an evening with friends coming up, so I’m starting two new tiny software projects.
An app that will read my movie collection, find images for the various movies, and draw a collage of it so that people can choose more easily.
An app that will read several Last.fm profiles and then create a rhythmbox playlist [...]
Second part: Database
Third part: LDAP
Fourth part: Finish
First some notes.
The installation and compile notes on opengroupware.org are either
not relevant (wrong distro, wrong architecture) or
outdated (current release is 1.1.7, compile notes still talk about 1.0beta)
Also, there are a lot of pitfalls when compiling such a huge project.
I had to install OpenGroupware.org on a company machine, so why [...]
Due to scheduling problems (new job, p300, …) I decided to cancel my movie database 2 project. I just feel much better without it constantly lingering in the background. The precious coding time I have really needs to go into p300 right now.
Sharing is important for people to interact and communicate.
The music industry doesn’t get it, wants to get rid of YouTube and music downloads.
The movie industry doesn’t get it, wants to get rid of movie downloads.
The games industry seems to get it, with web interaction in games and multiplayer options ever increasing.
And the latest culprit? garfield.com. [...]
I had to change the blog theme, because while Vistered Little looks great, it had too many drawbacks in terms of style with the newer WordPress versions (like badly looking text next to pictures).
I’m now using the quite popular Atahualpa.
As guruz noted, there is a new version 762 of p300 out.
Unfortunately still without any improvement by me, but I’m actively working on those (distributed search).
p300 is a file-sharing tool for VPN and private networks.
Noteworthy features:
Major UI overhaul
WebStart works on more systems
Improved user/host identification
Download now!
Painting the Mona Lisa with 1.001 paint balls coming from 1.001 barrels.
The MythBusters guys Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage did it at the NVISION08 show.
Good watch.
(Setup & Pretext: Part 1)
