So we got this interesting internet controlled speaker system at work called Sonos. They turned it on for the first time tonight and started playing some house music. Neat. That got me wondering — multiple people all controlling a media server transparently over the network… I wonder…. A quick apt-get install gupnp-tools away and I [...]
Archives for March 2010
Pandora-UPnP sees the light of day
This is becoming a very bad habit. Have a crazy and only semi useful idea one night and get a terrible itch all the next day until I can sit down and work on it. In this case I had an itch all day while at the gym and at work and then a passover [...]
Pandora-UPnP?
So I feel fairly comfortable saying that I have ‘solved’ the problem of using MPD via UPnP at least in a rough slightly-better-than-prototype sense. I will of course continue to polish MPD-UPnP but I wonder, how can I make Zhaan even more useful? There is this nifty library called pianobar with this even more nifty [...]
Zhaan Controller
I had some pretty serious issues with my scratchbox environment but thanks to the PR1.2 SDK my life is much easier and things are working again. Since things are working Zhaan has been making some lovely progress. In particular I have now implemented a complete control panel in Zhaan. I have also implemented the [...]
Google’s love of the internet
I am quiet often both surprised and saddened by the things Google does. Google, like any good company, devotes effort into making great products that both solve people’s problems and at the same time also benefit the company itself. I see projects like Chrome OS as both a nice thing for some folks, but also [...]
PyGI Hackfest
I have been graciously invited to the Gnome/Python hackfest this coming April. The goal of the conference is to help maintain Gnome as an attractive environment for python development. We will also be working on PyGI and in particular some of the features i have been working on for GUPnP and Zhaan. We’ve been tracking [...]
Dawn of a new era
As you have likely noticed the blog has been moderatly transformed over the past couple of hours. I got on another one of those once-you-start-you-just-can’t-stop modes and began setting up this WordPress blog at about 12:30 PM. Since then I have successfully: Used my old RSS feed from my old custom blogging software to import everything [...]
