Last year I released a tool that lets you track a Yahoo Fantasy Football league in Python. Recently I finished a complete refactor of it into more of an API, so it can be used directly by other projects or scripts. It also includes an example script that just dumps the information to stdout. Check [...]
Lately I’ve been working on a version of MobileOrg for the Android platform. If you are an iPhone user then check out the main MobileOrg site or the store for it. MobileOrg is a free and open source application for storing, searching, viewing and editing your Org-mode files. If you are an emacs user and [...]
Spent this past weekend at PyCon in Atlanta and had a great time. Most of the talks were pretty good, though there were some duds. You can find videos of the talks online but I thought I would post my notes from a few talks that I went to. These notes are mostly things that [...]
A couple of days ago I discovered a bug in a popular piece of software that we use at work… it took a few back and forth conversations with one of the developers on the mailing list but I was able to work past it and find a solution that put my system back on [...]
This post is out of date, the program has been updated to work for 2010 see here: http://matburt.net/?p=103 Every year around this time I find myself faced with a problem. I really enjoy football and playing fantasy football but I’m pretty much locked into Yahoo’s terrible web interface. Each year I tell myself I’m going [...]
For my birthday this year I was given a brand new Asus EeePC 1000HE, one of those fancy new netbooks. It came pre-loaded with Windows XP which didn’t last too long. I was aware going into it that OpenBSD wouldn’t recognize the wireless card so I thought I’d give FreeBSD a shot. The challenge to [...]
During the day I like to listen to various audio streams so I find myself switching back and forth between music and news. Wouldn’t it be nice if you could play streams for a given amount of time? I couldn’t find anything that did it automatically so I wrote this quick Python program to do [...]
So I realized today that my database has been down for two days without me realizing it. It appears that it just shut itself down at some point and never came back. I’ve decided to give Monit a try for monitoring and notification of bad things like this happening. Do you use something similar with [...]
I like to tell stories about poorly written code. As a programmer you come across it all the time, and good programmers work really hard to make sure everything they write is both clean and as free from bugs as you can make it. There is a reason, though, that we spend so much time [...]
For a very long time I have been floating back and forth between a handfull of windows managers trying to find something that I like and doesn’t get in my way. The one I have always gravitated to is Window Maker, simply because it is minimal and has a ridiculously small footprint. I’ve also used [...]