[caption id="" align=“aligncenter” width=“286” caption=“Week in Review”][/caption] Here’s what happened this week:  What’s new with Radio Tray? http://www.ogmaciel.com/?p=1016Radio Tray, your favorite light weight online radio streaming application, has gone under some more development churn since its last release. Namely, there is now a dbus interface to allow other applications to interact with it! When the movie is better than the book Over this past weekend I found just enough time to finish reading Band of Brothers by Stephen E.

I’m really excited to announce the release of my Django Developer Kit 1.2 RC1! The highlights for this release include the first Release Candidate for the upcoming Django 1.2, as well as a switch of the underlying platform, from CentOS to rPath Linux 2. All kinks have been worked out and setting up a Django-based project in the appliance is a piece of cake! Some of the Django modules included are:

[caption id="" align=“aligncenter” width=“413” caption=“After the Deadline”][/caption] My good friend Vinny introduced me to After the Deadline, a nifty WordPress and Firefox plugin that promises to “help you write better by adding spell, style, and grammar checking to web applications.” As some of you know I have been on a writing rampage these last few weeks, and as in everything that I ever do, I try my best to write concise, clear and well written articles.

[caption id="" align=“aligncenter” width=“350” caption=“GUADEC 2010”][/caption] This past April 16th I had the pleasure of receiving the following email: Congratulations, your submission Making easier for companies to give back to GNOME has been accepted for presentation at GUADEC which is being held from 2010-07-26 to 2010-07-30 at Den Haag. I was ecstatic!!! Having had the opportunity to attend GUADEC 2009 at Las Palmas, Gran Canary last year, I was thrilled with the possibility of attending my second one and presenting my ideas on how to facilitate the collaboration between downstream and GNOME.

[caption id=“attachment_1022” align=“alignleft” width=“264” caption=“Band of Brothers”][/caption] Over this past weekend I found just enough time to finish reading Band of Brothers by Stephen E. Ambrose, a book about the story of the men of E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne, U.S. Army infantry. Back in 2006 HBO had turned this book into a 10-episodes mini series which I avidly watched in one shot one day while visiting my friend Vinny in Massachusetts.

http://radiotray.sourceforge.net/ [caption id="" align=“alignleft” width=“128” caption=“RadioTray”][/caption] Radio Tray, your favorite light weight online radio streaming application, has gone under some more development churn since its last release. Namely, there is now a dbus interface to allow other applications to interact with it! So you write a “remote control” for Radio Tray and change the volume, change stations, extract metadata from the stream being played, etc. Here’s what’s currently supported: listRadios() getCurrentRadio() playRadio(name) turnOff() volumeUp() volumeDown() getCurrentMetaData() Fancy learning a bit about adding a dbus interface to your own application?

[caption id=“attachment_963” align=“aligncenter” width=“279” caption=“Week in Review”][/caption] Here’s what happened this week: Coffee, a personal history I first got hooked on drinking coffee back in the Spring of 1994 while attending a Microbiology class at Pace University. Our class started way too early for me and our professor (can’t remember her name right now) was this tiny old lady […] A Pig, an Elephant and a Yellow Dog From the “Read a Book to a Childâ€?