Playing with Django: a fretless experience August 25th, 2008
I’ve been trying for twenty minutes to shoehorn a joke about Grappelling into this excerpt.
Realplayer to mp3: a configurable Python wrapper December 6th, 2006
It’s one of the worst-kept tech secrets in the world, but Real Audio streams can be downloaded using software such as mplayer and then converted to MP3 format with lame. Both of these are available in Ubuntu using the non-Ubuntu package manager Automatix. The possibility of doing this conversion implies that, although the BBC offer [...]
Throw it all away! November 27th, 2006
I’ve recently been experimenting with calling external commands (mplayer and lame, so you might be able to guess what I’ve been doing) from within a scripting language (Python, although it needn’t have been as it turns out). Bizarrely, the external commands—argumentae intactae—worked absolutely fine on their own, chained together by me, by hand. However, when [...]