Music overload

It's just too much ... Really amazing to see how much good music is available for free on the internet. I totally gave up on checking all new stuff on Tonspion or Download.com. Guess I'll really never need to buy a CD anymore.

My last two weeks turned out to be dominated by electronic music. I got totally hooked to Soma FM. I really enjoy the Groove Salad but most of the time I'm listening to the Secret Agent stream. I enjoy those little snippets from all the bond movies.

Today Soma FM played Awaken from Sophie Moleta. Really enjoyed that one and there are a number of nice songs on her page.

This week the Spiegel had another part of its free music series. They also focused on electronic music so it blended well with the other stuff I am listening to at the moment. They featured bad loop a guy from Finland. He offers a collection of really nice songs on his page. This link also helped me to discover the KAHVI collective that has an endless amount of electronic mp3's.

Simply too much ...

Posted at: 01:42 | Permalink | category: /english/personal/media

Bugfixes on webapp-config

This week I started using the python version of webapp-config on all of my machines. There were still some bugfixes necessary before everything worked as expected, but with version 1.21 all standard features of the original bash script have been replicated. It definitely significantly faster than the bash version but that's to be expected considering some of the bash shortcomings. If you want to try the new version I recommend to use my overlay.

Posted at: 22:36 | Permalink | category: /english/technical/gentoo

Ebuild updates

Several of the ebuilds in my overlay got updated during the last two weeks. To summarize the updates:

muse-3.01.99

I had problem with planner and muse, and since using the current development version of muse solved the problem I added muse-3.01.99 as an intermediate before muse-3.02 will be released.

jdbm-1.0

Jdbm is in the tree with version 0.12 but I needed version 1.0 for nntp//rss. So I added this ebuild.

python-fuse-2.3

I'll hopefully start playing around with fuse soon and since python is my preferred programming language right now I needed the python API for FUSE.

webapp-config-1.21

This is the ebuild for the new webapp-config release.

phpicalendar-2.0.1

Version bump for PHP Icalendar.

nntprss-0.5.2_beta

This desperately needed a bug fix. So I also went for an intermediate ebuild from a CVS snapshot. I add some more info on this application in another blog entry.

ensembl-perl-33

Simple bump to version 33 of the ensembl-perl modules.

repbase-10.07

The Genetic Research Institute published another update to their database, version 10.07.

Posted at: 22:35 | Permalink | category: /english/technical/gentoo

webapp-config-1.22 (BETA)

Finally fixed the new python version of webapp-config to include a modified eclass and a new ebuild. This means you can now install and test the new version. It is absolutely not recommended for use on a productive system (yet).

The package itself is here and this is the accompanying overlay. You can also use my overlay which will always reflect the latest changes.

Posted at: 22:55 | Permalink | category: /english/technical/gentoo

Bridging muse and del.icio.us

For a while now I have been managing my links using del.icio.us. What had been lacking was a local copy of the links so that I would not be completely dependent on having access to the del.icio.us site.

This is where the del.icio.us API for emacs comes in handy. It builds a local cache of your links and allows to conveniently work with the data using emacs. You can perform all actions provided by the del.icio.us site and even post links offline into your cache to upload them at a later time. I added a short note on how to configure the API on this page.

In order to be able to use the link cache for my web pages I added some lisp functions. They allow me to define link sections that list all my links matching specific del.icio.us tags. You'll find the functions here.

Posted at: 11:15 | Permalink | category: /english/technical