Bloggy

I can’t think of any one
thing to blog about, so I’ll just blog about many little things.

• I’ve made a quick PHP/MySQL rewrite of the main page of my site, so that
  it dynamically lists the different software I have. That way I can (after I
  convert the rest of my site) update the various programs I have without having
  to edit 3 different pages per program. This was much easier than I thought it
  would be.
• Java sucks less now, but every time I want to like the
  language, I remember why the syntax annoys me so.
• 

  JuK is becoming niftier again. I
  need to finish my work on the Play Queue, but in the meantime gstreamer-0.8
  support and album cover art support has been added (to clarify, by wheels and
  Nathan Toone). The album cover art is quite nifty in combination with the
  track announcement popup, it is just a pity that we can’t use the Amazon Web
  Services API for downloading the cover art. If you’re wondering why, check
  out their Terms
  and Conditions. Needless to say, it is ever so GPL-incompatible.

  Before anyone bugs me about this, though, yes, I know that JuK has a Get
  Cover From Internet option (it currently uses a Google search). I don’t think
  this is quite legal either so I’ll be lobbying to have it removed,
  unfortunately.

  The only workaround I can think of is to open up an
  interface by which JuK can get images from some external program, and we don’t
  really care how that program does it. The only problem is that such an
  external program probably couldn’t be packaged with KDE, so it would have to
  live eternally as a user addon.

  All these petty problems aside, it *is*
  still rather nice, although the UI integration could be better.

• One of these days I need to A) Add Tacky (my oh-so-simple blogging tool)
  to my homepage, B) Add support for previewing your post in Tacky, and C) Make
  Tacky use qmake or my simple Makefile template instead of the KDE build
  system, as there’s no way I’m putting up 630K of source for a program that
  simple. And oh yeah, D) Add XML-RPC support as soon as clee’s done with his
  secure pyblosxom post plugin. (Sorry clee! ;)
• Edit: Oh yeah,
  the Steelers creamed the Philadelphia Eagles, thus becoming the best team in
  the NFL up to this point. :)

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