myelin: Notes

Recent

Geeky events happening in Christchurch, New Zealand

(A place for me to keep track of all the recurring meetups, because Upcoming hasn't taken off here yet)

Code

Python Community Server [Python/UNIX/Windows]

(a free weblog community server - an alternative for UserLand's Radio Community Server)

phpStorageSystem [PHP/UNIX]

(another free weblog community server; one that can run under Apache)

bzero [Python/UNIX]

(a blogging tool, written in Python, for Unix and Windows)

BlogGazer [Python/Windows]

(a Windows app to browse XML backups of bzero and Radio weblogs)

DbWrappers [Python/C#/Windows]

(a Python app to create strongly-typed wrappers for C# DataReaders)

ThinBlog [Java]

(a Blogger API client in Java, made very small thanks to the Thinlet GUI library)

XML-RPC debug proxy [Python]

(an inspection tool to help untangle your problems with XML-RPC or other HTTP-based protocols)

OPML directory browser [C#/Windows]

(more info and more)

technorati.py [Python]

(a Python client for the Technorati XML interface)

microsoft_com.py [Python]

(a Python client for the Microsoft.com Web Services)

Services

Internet Topic Exchange

(a 'shared cloud' to categorise weblog posts)

Python Community Server

(free weblog hosting)

New Zealand Coffee Review

(somewhere to review coffee and cafés in NZ - using blogging technology)

Blogging Ecosystem (no longer active)

(who links to who)

Radio Comment/TrackBack monitor

(keep track of comments + trackbacks on your Radio weblog)

Community Server Wiki

(talking about web services, blogging, and stuff)

Feed Combiner

(a tool to turn a bunch of RSS feeds into a plausible-looking blogroll)

Feed Normalizer

(a tool to turn any RSS [0.9x, 1.0, 2.0] or Atom feed into a simple RSS 2.0 feed that any aggregator can handle)

Electronics

Updating a car MP3 library without wires

Writing

Second p0st - my weblog

(see also the contents page)

Christchurch, New Zealand - my photoblog

(pictures of Christchurch)

Academic publications - real papers

Info for developers

How to implement callbacks in various languages

(function pointers in C, interfaces in C++ and Java and delegates in C#, as well as a hack to let you painlessly use delegates in C++)

Kent Pitman's perspective on languages to learn

(learning other languages can give you new insights about the ones you already know)

AtheOS - a BeOS-like system by Kurt Skauen

(one of the more successful lesser-known operating systems; coded from scratch by one guy in Europe)

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