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WITW automation goes on

[GNU] — Sat, 15 Oct 2005 16:38:36 +0000

After a few hours of learning AppleScript I figured out how to attach AppleScripts to an iCal Event and let that AppleScript reuse my old widw Python script to set my current location at WITW Service. All to do is set the location of the event to “GEO: lat, long” and call the witw.scpt for this event. That’s it! If you are looking for a how to attach AppleScript to an Event search google.

The archive of witw.scpt also contains widw.py and supporting files, just set your username and password in witw.scpt and go…

putting WIDW together…

[GNU] — Tue, 09 Aug 2005 09:23:23 +0000

After a long time without looking into all that Jabber and WITW stuff some work by Lost Boy came to my attention [via: Phil Wilson]. The only missing piece is a nice desktop GUI to set my location and publish this change via Jabber, that’s a TODO. But for now I can:

start a gateway between WITW webservice and a jabber pubsub node, this will look for updates on the jabber node and update WITW according to the informations received.
use a python program to update a jabber pubsub node, to let others know that my geo positions has been updated
and finaly take a look at where I am

Next Step: build a GUI to set the geo position, maybe using Python and wxPython

WITW-updater via XMPP

[GNU] — Fri, 15 Apr 2005 17:29:56 +0000

Here is the next extension using Norman Walsh’s WITW service: I integrated it with the MeNow XMPP PubSub stuff I did earlier. Now there is a python command line tool to set the current location and a gateway between XMPP PubSub and WITW webservice. This gateway will subscribe to a given node and will update the WITW record of the user if new data is received via XMPP. I also put togeter an architectural overview diagram.

The source for the new releae is here (I love here-links).

Next Step: a Gnome based desktop applet that subscribes to the XMPP node and displays data received from it.

UPDATE: there are some things going on, lost boy hacked up some WITW to GoogleMap service [via: Phil Wilson].

Wo in der Welt Python Interface

[GNU] — Mon, 11 Apr 2005 19:43:13 +0000

Hacking arround… and created a interface to Norman Walsh’s WITW service as a Python class. I am using the brute force method to set and retrieve some data of the web service. What the witwService() class does is:

getUserAsHTML() – will return the given user’s current location

getUserAsMeNow() – will return the given user’s current location using the MeNow RDF Schema

getLandmarksAsXML() – get all landmarks of the given user

setUserLongLat(lon, lat) – set the given user’s long and lat

Please find the .tar.bz2 and test it…

WITW and my Python

[GNU] — Sun, 06 Mar 2005 19:58:39 +0000

After I gave sudo port install gtk-sharp a try I finally found a python2.4 installed on /opt/local/… so I started playing arround with it a little.

After a few webpage readings I came up with “Wo in der Welt?” aka widw… a little python script picking up the current WITW info of a given user. As worldly wisdom showed once again brute force and ignorance helps! My next idea was to fetch the atom feed and push updates of locations into jabber. Unfortunatly the atom feed doesnt seem to be a Atom 0.3 feed, I “filed this bug”… so stay tuned for another step forward to my personal vision of an information desktop…

RSS 1.0 Enclosure Aggregator

[GNU] — Mon, 07 Feb 2005 22:23:38 +0000

Hello World! This is the 0.2 release of gclosure, a RSS 1.0 and Rss 2.0 enabled enclosure aggregator primarly targetet at Podcast downloading. Basically it’s intention is to bring all the wonderful RDF features to the world of podcasting. It uses librdf and was hacked together with a lot of help of dajobe (once again). First milestone is to see the download counter climbe higher than 3 :) Thanks for feedback…

RDF/RSS1.0 podcasting updates

[GNU] — Fri, 04 Feb 2005 15:39:36 +0000

I think I am going to build a podcast aggregator on my own, usage of RDF/RSS1.0 in the podcasting universe must be enhanced… The first step would be a Python console application getting the usual suspect’s podcasts. As it’s beeing Python the natural choice seems to be librdf, so get a grip on Rasqal. With a little help of dajobe I got a SPARQL query to get the list of Enclosures and the Length out of my RDF/RSS1.0 feed. Here is the code:
PREFIX dc: PREFIX rss: PREFIX enc: SELECT ?title ?enc ?len WHERE ( ?item rdf:type rss:item ) ( ?item rss:title ?title ) ( ?enclosure rdf:type enc:Enclosure ) ( ?item enc:enclosure ?enclosure ) ( ?enclosure enc:url ?enc ) ( ?enclosure enc:type ?type ) ( ?enclosure enc:length ?len ) AND ?type =~ /audio/mpeg/

Have a try on it.

MeNow via Jabber PubSub – it’s shaping up…

[GNU] — Wed, 01 Dec 2004 20:14:05 +0000

Ok, first try to get a Jabber PubSub thingy together using python/twisted; first try to get a MacOSX application done using PyObjC/Growl; did I say that this is my first shot at parsing MeNow/RDF with python?

And here is the status:

I have some Python code communication with the pubsub component at pubsub.ik.nu, it creates new nodes, subscribes to existing nodes…
the desktop application subscribes to generic/B4mad/mood/goern to listen for MeNow updates published there
the desktop application pops up new notifications as soon as it receives updates
and I have a some test program to send updates

But where is the code you are talking about? Ahm, not yet released, just drop me a line if you are interested. Especialy the Mac users!! :)

coded using: Krieg from the album “Und Lautlos Fliegt Der Kopf Weg ” by Ben Becker

Python unter MacOSX

[GNU] — Sun, 28 Nov 2004 12:06:11 +0000

Nachdem ich ein bischen mit Python auf dem MacOSX rumgespielt habe, stellt sich mir die Frage wie ich denn den Programmen eine schÃ¶ne GUI geben kann. Erster ansatz scheint Pashua zu sein, damit kann man recht viele GUI Elemente auf den Bildschirm zaubern. Es stellt allerdings keine Integration von Python in ObjC (und somit auf all die Nettigkeiten des Mac) dar. Als Python<-> ObjC bridge kommt PyObjC daher. Nach dem ich beide Sites quergelesen habe, habe ich mich entschieden erstmal mit PyObjC zu starten, es scheint mir bei geringer KomplexitÃ¤t grÃ¶ssere MÃ¶glichkeiten zu bieten.

Jabber PubSub Experiments

[GNU] — Sat, 27 Nov 2004 21:42:22 +0000

The fact that pubsub.ik.nu uses Idavoll 2 now reminded me that I need to do some jabber/pubsub/menow hacking… So with a lot of help from ralphm I hacked together some python JEP-60 publisher and receiver. The intention is to transport Menow status information from a Aqua or Gtk GUI application (or IRC bot or whatever) to all the subscribed client GUI applications (which will pretty print the status information, like gdesklet or some fancy Aqua popup).