A couple of days ago I finally had my Google Wave sandbox account. Given that I just finished developing my very first robot, I thought I’d share some impressions on the whole thing. From the user-side, things are far from being ready. Some important features are still missing, just to name one you can’t remove user from a wave once they joined (or, alternatively, there’s no way to ignore a wave). Indeed, given that I joined several waves to try other people applications, I’m getting continuous notifications. But anyway, the whole thing is to me like a great development playground where I can make all the sorts of experiments.
Category Archives: Geekness
Google Wave impressions from a developer point of view
Posted by kratorius
on August 28th, 2009
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My Italian PyCon experience
Posted by kratorius
on May 11th, 2009
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I came back yesterday from the third Italian PyCon (aka pycon3) which was held in Florence and all I can say is that has been an amazing experience. I had the chance to meet a lot of new great people as well as the BDFL (which won’t be back in Europe for quite some time, as he said). Here follows a resume of what I think were the most interesting talks.
Alsa, surround and CA0106
Posted by kratorius
on March 21st, 2008
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This is more a remainder for me: in order to make the surround work for mp3s with the CA0106 driver with alsa (for me it’s a Sound Blaster Live! 24 bit), here’s the .asoundrc that should be used:
pcm.!dmix {
type plug
slave {
pcm surround51
channels 6
}
}
pcm.!default {
type plug
slave.pcm "dmix"
slave.channels 6
route_policy duplicate
}Now you know how to say hello in english
Posted by kratorius
on January 28th, 2008
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I have a love/hate relationship against the hello messages shown in all the world languages on flickr. That’s why this morning I was talking with a friend on IRC about this and a bad idea jumped in my mind: do an IRC bot that says hello in many languages when someone joins a channel.
It’s from several years that I don’t do anything IRC related, but this time I had two special weapons in my backpack: python and twisted. The final bot is ~90 lines of code, half of the which are for the hello list and the entire coding process took less than 20 minutes.