Irina's new (mo)blog

21/12/2005 00:06 | Categories: Blogging | 0 Comments 

She's back :)


I'm back

22/07/2005 02:44 | Categories: General, News, Blogging, LifeType | 0 Comments 

As you might have noticed by the article posted yesterday (I was just testing whether Lifeblog and the Atom plugin for plog works well in the new server), my blog is back :) I know it took a while but first I did not have ADSL at home and when I finally got the connection, it took a while until the new account was working well.

I am in a new server, so many thanks to Jordi for kindly allowing me to run my site here. Many thanks to Francesc too for allowing me to run this site so far in his account! Last but not least, many thanks to all of you (like Jon) who have offered me accounts in servers for my site! ;) The server so far feels quite good. It's quite fast, I can finally run a "modern" version of PHP and MySQL, and the DNS are also pointing to this new server correctly so no more redirects from renalias.net to francesc.net.

The new house also feels quite good, but there's still a lot of work to do. So far we've completed the dining area and the bedroom. The second bedroom, which will become the work room, is also ready but it has no furniture (looking forward to having a proper desk and a place to work properly again), and we have decided to get working on the corridor/entrance hall and living room as soon as we get back from holidays. We're too tired now :) Speaking of holidays, I'll be leaving in one week but expect updates from me in this blog via moblogging: first a week in Saint Petersburg, then a week in Lanzarote and then a week in my home town. I think this year I can't complain :)

Last but not least, pLog 1.1 is coming along... slowly. I'm determined to fix all the performance issues we're having with 1.0 but even though we've made some progress, I have hardly had 3-4 hours a week to work on it. This also means that my initial estimations for a final release (late Autumn or early Winter) could be wrong and that we won't see a pLog 1.1 until 2006. So you'll have to be patient.



Musical meme

28/05/2005 03:14 | Categories: Blogging, Music | 0 Comments 

Thanks to my friend Ignasi, it's my turn to continue with the meme and passing the baton onto 5 more people :)

Total size of music files in my computer

  • 2579 songs / 13.7 days / 23.30Gb

    • Last record bought

  • Dimitri from Paris and Joey Negro - Kings of Disco (last time when I was in England, somewhere far from London and I had nothing better to do in the evenings in my hotel room!)

    • Song that I am listening to now

  • Radio Flair 2h Mix Dec 04 release2 (podcasted house session -- I wil write one day about good music podcasts)

    • Five songs that I listen to a lot or that mean a lot to me

  • Norah Jones - I've got to see you again
  • Air - All I need
  • King Kooba - Fooling myself (Easy Access Orchestra Remix)
  • Sour Times - Portishead
  • Moloko - Bring it back

    • 5 persons to whom I am passing the baton

  • Francesc, though I know what kind of music we'll get in his list :)
  • Ivan, let's see what he's been listening to recently.
  • Alexander Kaiser, he's been commenting lately here so I'm just curious :)
  • Mark Wu. Will it be mostly Asian stuff?
  • Jon. Again, I am curious :)

    • Do you think they will take the baton and continue the meme? :)



    The power of Python

    13/01/2005 02:10 | Categories: Blogging | 3 Comments 

    In one my posts a couple of days ago I mentioned that I had started to look into Python for Series 60, recently released by Nokia. Of course in order to get up to speed with Python and the whole XMLRPC thingie in Python I needed to play around with it for a while, since my target is to build a simple moblogging client that will allow to post text and pictures to blogs via the Blogger and the metaWeblog XMLRPC APIs (since Nokia's Lifeblog does not support my 6600)

    Look how simple it is to interact with the xmlrpc.php endpoint available in this server (all this from the Python console, the one that you get when typing just "python" at the command line): 

    import xmlrpclib
srv = xmlrpclib.ServerProxy( "http://www.francesc.net/xmlrpc.php" )
srv.metaWeblog.getRecentPosts("2","oscar", "xxxxx")


    and the output (too long to be included here) is a native Python list including all the recent posts in my blog (that magic number "2" is my blog id)

    This is something that I had never seen so far... The good thing is that there is no such Python method called "metaWeblog.getRecentPosts" in the ServerProxy class! The XMLRPC library is in fact doing some run-time detection of the method we're calling and in fact, it is contacting the XMLRPC server and sending a request to the "metaWeblog.getRecentPosts" method so this library would work equally good if the method was called "myServer.getSomething".

    That's quite unbelievable and this probably is the easiest XMLRPC library I've ever seen. And the best thing is that it works just fine in my 6600 without any change! In fact, I was typing these very same lines above in my 6600 via the bluetooth console (yeah, that's another one you've got to see... connecting to the 6600 via Bluetooth and executing Python code there typed from my laptop)

    This is probably sooo old news for the Python crowd but it is something that I am really excited about :) Now I think that the hardest part about building my dreamed moblogging client for Series60 will be to build the UI and make it responsive... I will keep you updated :)


    Python for Series60

    11/01/2005 02:56 | Categories: News, Blogging | 0 Comments 

    Nokia finally made the Python runtime for Series60 available near the end of last year. Python in Series60 might be the answer for those of us who would enjoy a relatively easy way to develop tools for our Nokia/Series60/Symbian phones without getting frustrated at the limitations of J2ME or running away from SymbianOS and C++.

    You can get the runtime here, documentation is included or it can also be found here. There is an official Series60 Python forum in the Nokia developers forums, and there are also some sites and blog posts out there with lots of interesting info such as this one, this one, even a Python Series60 wiki, or this blog from one of the Nokia guys who ported Python.

    The good thing is that all you need is a text editor, the API docs as reference and when you're ready, just transfer the source to your phone via Bluetooth. It's just great :-) I always wanted to develop something for my Nokia phone so I might as well take a break from PHP and pLog soon...


    Linklogs

    25/12/2004 20:29 | Categories: Links, Blogging, Fun, Geeky | 0 Comments 

    I have recently become quite addicted to some pages that work as "linklogs". In other words, they just collect links to interesting pages in the net... These are my favourite linklogs: All these links can be found at the bottom of the left column classified as "Linklogs". Enjoy :)


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