Category Archives: projects

My personal projects

mp3 id3 tag whatsit

August 22, 2007 – 2:38 pm

I bought a few mp3s from mp3sparks (formerly allofmp3) and was annoyed that the mp3s were not tagged with their track numbers but they were in the filename.
I had a quick look to see if I could fix this somehow. I found id3-py which I used to write a python script that fixes this and […]

By philroche | Also posted in General, python, scripting, open source, music | Comments (3)

Developing a Firefox Extension That People Actually Use

July 24, 2007 – 8:16 am

I’ll stop venting my anger at faceless corporations now.
There’s a nice write up on the tools needed to write good firefox extensions.
http://www.softwaredeveloper.com/features/firefox-extension-resource-072307/

By philroche | Also posted in Aggreg8, General, firefox, javascript, open source | Comments (0)

Old School House Art Group is now live

June 22, 2007 – 8:10 am

http://www.oldschoolhouseart.com/
The last three nights I have been frantically building and populating my Mum’s Art Group’s website. I promised it to her months ago and it was due yesterday as a new exhibition started. I built it completely on Wordpress (nine instances of it) and integrated with flickr (they can manage all their […]

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Halfviking get’s videos (ffmpeg, convert, flvmdi, flvplayer)

January 26, 2007 – 1:22 pm

I’ve always wanted my online gallery export script to handle videos and last weekend, I bit the bullet and wrote it. I used quite a few Open source projects to accomplish this which means that PEAExport has a few dependencies but I think it’s worth it. My Canon Ixus takes AVI movies. The sizes of […]

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Geek resolutions

January 4, 2007 – 12:04 pm

As it’s new year and my motivation is at an all time low, I think a list of TODOs (or new years resultions) is needed. Some of those listed are techy and some are not but all of them are aimed at improving my life.
I will

Finish the new design of this site - […]

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Aggreg8 lives

December 11, 2006 – 8:37 pm

This weekend I have gone on an all out Open Source offensive. I have released a new version of ACR (Automatically Create Rewriterules) with some bug fixes and faster processing of sites. I have released an updated version of PEA (Photoshop Elements Album Export) with improved accessibility and more options in the python script header.
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By philroche | Also posted in Aggreg8, firefox, xml, rss, javascript, scripting, open source | Comments (1)

auto rewrite rules and google sitemap generation

October 20, 2006 – 5:05 pm

Although we’re very busy in work at the moment, the last few evenings I have been pythoning myself up and have come up with 3 nifty little scripts.

Automatically generate a google sitemap for any given url - createSiteMap.py .
Automatically generate rewrite rules for any given url - createRewriteRules.py .
View a list of all unique […]

By philroche | Also posted in python, xml, acr | Comments (2)

Aggreg8.net sold

August 13, 2006 – 8:31 pm

None of you will have noticed that Aggreg8.net and Aggreg8.com are now actually hosting Microcosm which is a Microsoft portal of some sorts.
I was approached about a month ago to see if I would sell Aggreg8.com. Hell yes. I suggested $3000 as I could not be bothered getting into a to and fro debate […]

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Half Viking Gallery Goes Live

October 18, 2005 – 6:50 am

It’s been a while on the back burner but this weekend I went hell for leather and managed to get the necessary coding done to get Halfviking.com live.
I manage all my photos 6000+ photos in Photoshop Elements and I am very happy with how it copes but it’s web gallery export sucks ass.
What I found […]

By philroche | Also posted in General, python, xslt, xml, pea | Comments (2)

Demo up

July 12, 2005 – 9:52 pm

A proof of concept XHTML outputting demo is now live @ http://rss2wml.com/demo/. BBC news and philroche.net are featured.

By philroche | Also posted in rss2wml | Comments (0)