I’ve used Django for a few small projects in the last year and have absolutely fallen in love with it. While I always insist that I’m not a language or framework zealot I will quite happily and unashamedly push the Python / Django team wherever possible. Here are some of the reasons why.
Software Development
Server Fault Private Beta
Following on from the wildly successful Stack Overflow programming questions and answers website, Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky have launched Server Fault, a questions and answers site following the same format but now for “system administrators and IT professionals” (currently in Private Beta, click here for sign-up instructions).
Balsamiq Mockups, donated license
The wonderful folks at Balsamiq have graciously donated a license for their Mockups user interface design software to the Tubecaster project to help with future improvements. I just want to say a huge thank you to Mariah and the Balsamiq team for this, and to encourage everyone to check out this fantastic piece of software.
Tubecaster Balsamiq interface
Python Line Counter
Yesterday I was looking for a Python source code line counter to give me a summary of some source files, but I couldn’t find a free one that would do the job as I wanted. So I created one. And you can have it for free (GNU GPL) – download it here:
Sample usage:
cmd> plc.py tubecore.py tubewx.py tubewxdialogs.py Input files: tubecore.py tubewx.py tubewxdialogs.py Total lines: 1510 Code lines: 1111 Comment lines: 139 Blank lines: 260
-Wayne
Tubecaster 2.0.1 Released!
I’m pleased to report that Tubecaster 2.0.1 for Windows is now available for download. Click here to go to the downloads page on the Tubecaster homepage.
Highlights of this release:
- Supported media formats:
- MP3
- FLAC
- WAV
- Ogg Vorbis
- AVI
- MPG
- MP4
- 3GP
- Additional language support: Afrikaans
- Automatically downloads HD version of the chosen video if available
- Proxy server support
- Login support – for downloading videos marked as private or age restricted
I’m keen to get feedback on what people would like to see in the next release. You can report bugs or request new features here. On that same site you can also vote for features that have already been requested. The more votes a feature gets the more likely and quickly it is to be implemented.
-Wayne