Wget is not a crime

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ujson, a fast json implementation

ujson is an ultra fast JSON encoder and decoder written in pure C (as described by the upstream). It can be used as dropin replacement of the most known JSON implementations.

To install you just do:

$ pip install ujson

To test the speed I decided to write two simple test scripts with help from timeit_ module.

The execution:

$  python json_test.py 
5.39651107788

$ python ujson_test.py 
1.09844493866

Review request for the Fedora package is already filled.

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Timelapse using Fedora and D80

My first timelapse movie: /me trying to clean the kitchen 

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Trying out the upcoming version of lekhonee-gnome

Testing the upcoming version of lekhonee-gnome frontend.

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translation-filter 0.0.4 is released

You can download the source from here.

Documentation can be found here.

The post is brought to you by lekhonee v0.6

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Want to play your favourite song/movie on OLPC ?

So, if you want to play your favourite song/movie on OLPC use Jukebox.activity. Started working on this for the last few days after Sayam pointed me to the activity. It was almost in a stagnant condition.

My PyQt mind was someway different than writing this PyGtk stuff :) Sayam helped a lot.

The following features added as of now:

• Full Screen option
• Volume Control support
• Supporting m3u playlists
• Internet radios through m3u files.
• Next/Previous buttons , if you open a playlist with more than one song

Will do a formal release within this weekend. I have a .xo file ready for testing. Please provide your feedback :D

If you want to start writing your own activity , start from this.

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translation-filter 0.3 released

I just released translation-filter 0.3. You can download it from here.

The scope of development is to create a rudimentary tool that can allow comparing the quality of string translations in an offline mode. For example, the KDE Project uses a web based tool that allows strings to be searched in translated content.

The current set of requirements for this offline tool are:

• to be able to take as input a directory path containing multiple .po files
• to be able to take as input an English string or word to be searched within the .po files collection
• to be able to display every occurring instance of the English string or word along with equivalent translated string
• to be able to display the name of the files being searched
• to be able to save the search result set in an .html file

It uses PyQt4 for the gui, used QWebView to render the result. You will also require translate-toolkit (at least 1.0.1 version, available in Fedora 9).

Among the new features (mostly in the command line version) , using -t or –term you can search for any single term.  You can even check for unattached dependent vowel signs of Indic languages using -d option.

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tvitem, a small script to add video/audio items in the Fedora TV channel

Today Jonathan Roberts wrote about Fedora TV. Here is a small script to add video/audio item into an existing rss channel file. The code is not clean and without much error checking , it requires some item(s) to be already present in the file. Use it like

./tvitem -f fedora-tv.xml

It will ask input for Title, link , description and a local path to the file which will help it to calcualte the size of the file.

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