Top TV schedule in XMLTV format
Played around a bit with the Top TV schedule and created a scraper. Expect bugs.
Get the Top TV schedule in XMLTV format here:
http://bluegray.co.za/xmltv/toptv/
Simple gallery with drupal
Amazing how quick it is to build a useful site with drupal.
Made this simple drupal gallery with views and cck recently.
tvgogga update
Done a bit of work on tvgogga.appspot.com tonight. Added the viewport feature for mobiles and tweaked the style a bit. Eyes sleepy now... good night.
Quod Libet plugin for Facebook
Still very rough and hackish, but it works ;)
Quod Libet plugin to change your Facebook status message
The quodlibet plugin is just a quick hack of the gajim plugin, the python class is easy to use anywhere...
W850i UTF-8 and ID3v2.4 bug
Arrghh! A unicode/utf/latin-1 confusism again...
Been playing around with my new Sony Ericsson W850 - and so far it's pretty impressive.
But there's a problem with some mp3 ID3 tags which I tracked down to be UTF-8 used in some ID3v2.4 tags. I first thought it choked on the ID3v2.4 tag like so many other crappy players, but it handles ID3v2.4 fine if you convert the encoding to Latin-1 or UTF-16.
ID3v2.3 does not allow UTF-8, which is why it will always work fine. ID3v2.4 adds UTF-8 support, so this is a bug in the phone software. I'm using version R1JG001.
I used eyeD3 to convert the tags, which can also add album art btw.
Edit:
It looks like there's a problem with track numbers as well. UTF-16 works fine, but track numbers are mixed up, so the tracks play out of order. And **don't try UTF-16BE.** Your phone will *reboot repeatedly until you remove those files*. Looks like using either ID3v2.3 or ID3v2.4 doesn't matter. So all that is left is Latin-1 encoded tags.
*So if you have problems, make sure you don't use UTF or unicode encoded tags on your mp3s*
I made this rough python script to convert to lower bitrate mp3s and fix the tags to work with the W850i. It will also add any picture named folder.jpg or album.jpg in the same directory as album art to the tag.
http://www.floatinginspace.za.org/w850_cp/cp2w850.html
SMF SEF urls
Testing out the latest version of the SMF forum. The standard installation have no problems with crawlers. You do need incoming links from somewhere though. GoogleBot was crawling less than a day after installation, although there were already some pages from that domain that were in the google index. I didn't submit a sitemap or do anything special other than getting inbound links.
The 'SEF links' option in SMF looks like it is useless now and only needed if you want some ancient stupid bots that don't like dynamic content. But those are probably not worth worrying about.
Also been trying the pretty urls mod for SMF. While it won't make a difference to the bots, the keywords in the urls might make a difference. Only downside I see is the duplicate content from earlier indexed urls, but 301 redirects should fix that. Because the standard urls look more dynamic, google might prefer the pretty urls more. Don't know if urls might get too long with this mod, will have to check.
Will try an unknown domain with a clean install next.