James Galvin

Any Django heads should scoot over to Django People, a new community website centered around the popular Python web framework. Nice site - I love how your location is shown in a strip of Google maps on your profile page. For example, my profile (here) has a ~100px high strip of Cork City extending as far west as Dripsey and east to Barryscourt on my wide 1440×900 resolution. Apparently I’m 1 mile away from John Handelaar and 0 miles away from a guy called Dan, and that’s about all the Django guys in the immediate area for now (I know there are more than that!) Great use of Google Maps, and overall a very nice resource for Django, it will be a huge benefit to anyone looking for a local freelancer.

Today my boss introduced me to Freevo - an open source home theatre system for linux, written in Python. Record your TV shows and save them for later, accessible via the web interface if you’re at work and you forgot that The Return of Howard the Duck is on. A localised and accurate TV guide is provided on the system by XMLTV.

Play mp3’s, dvd’s, divx, and whatever else your average media centre does. Maybe install it on a modded Xbox for the ultimate entertainment system. I like the sound of Freevo, I think I will have to give it a bash.