I am a programmer living and working in Utah and Texas. I'm married, and have four children.
My blog is at OneManClapping. I manage to update it now and then. It is a mix of my thoughts relating to technology, music and life.
And it will probably bore you to tears.
I keep all of my family photos reasonably well updated. Nicole logs family events in her blog.
MythTv is a homebrew DVR (like TiVo) project that I am a big fan of. I built my own system in 2006 and have been quite happy with it. I kept a detailed record of my setup and installation/configuration experience. Over the years, my Myth system has morphed from being a simple time-shifting TV service into a full-fleded home media server. It can now serve up music and movies that I have ripped from DVDs to any computer or specialized device in the house.
Here is a listing of what's on TV tonight in my house. This used to be a scrubbed dump of what gets generated by Mythweb, but is now its own shiny php page on my myth system. Once a day the contents are generated and pushed to this host.
Regarding MythTv, the best feature by far, is the commercial autodetection and skipping. I have hardly seen one since I've started using it. I find it strange to think my children will grow up not having any real exposure to television advertising.
NOTE: My MythTv system was retired in October 2009 as part of relocating from Utah to Texas. I've signed up for AT&T U-verse in Texas. If it is anything as good as the marrketing materials I've looked at, I'm not likely to resurrect MythTv. That is, as long as I don't get tired of paying the $15 monthly fee for the DVR. We'll see.
I listen to music all day long while I am at work. This has turned me into a picky connoisseur. Well, OK... a snob. To get a sense of my tastes, you should visit my Last.fm profile.
But I figure you're too lazy to go to last.fm, and hey, I'm a programmer. I've created software that fetches my 10 most recently listened to songs and makes them part of this here web page. It gets updated every 10 minutes. Here goes...
| Song | Artist | Album | Played |
|---|---|---|---|
| Samantha Secret Agent | All Girl Summer Fun Band | 2 | 2010-03-09 22:58:48 |
| When You're Falling (Remix) | Afro Celt Sound System | Pod | 2010-03-09 22:54:10 |
| Gold Rush Brides | 10,000 Maniacs | MTV Unplugged | 2010-03-09 22:49:58 |
| The Painted Desert | 10,000 Maniacs | In My Tribe | 2010-03-09 22:46:19 |
| Periodically Double or Triple | Yo La Tengo | 2010-03-09 22:42:26 | |
| In The Garage | Weezer | Weezer (Blue) | 2010-03-09 22:38:31 |
| Mercy Seat (12 inch) | Ultra Vivid Scene | 2010-03-09 22:10:09 | |
| Mercy Seat | Ultra Vivid Scene | Ultra Vivid Scene | 2010-03-09 22:06:00 |
| Glory of the 80's | Tori Amos | To Venus and Back | 2010-03-09 21:54:09 |
| She's an Angel | They Might Be Giants | Severe Tire Damage | 2010-03-09 21:51:31 |
Many thanks to the folks at Musicbrainz for supplying the links.
Noob python source code: pull.py, markup.py.
I am also responsible for the Tagfriendly music blog aggregator.
My intention is to populate this area with bits of my own code. Any code you find here that does not specify its own license can be considered to be in the public domain.
An iTunes Music Store link generator utility written in python. This is handy if you wish to programatically generate links to the iTunes store that contain your referrer ID.
An Id3 reader implemented in python. I'm afraid it's not very 'pythonic,' as I consider myself a python newbie. UPDATE: now includes fancy tests and egg packaging!
A naive bayesian classifier I implemented in javascript.
An old project (the original Tagfriendly) is code I have abandoned. It is capable of parsing a FreeDB CDDB archive and converting it into a relational database. Further, it takes the relational database and converts it into a Lucene text index via Solr. Once you have the index there are lots of useful things you could do with it. I used it for fixing ID3 tags (see above). I also kept the Solr config files.
Jardig is a utility application I wrote that scans archives (jars, zips) for a specific java class. It even supports the ability to scan archives of archives. Once upon a time it was quite handy at resolving build misconfigurations that only revealed themselves at runtime.
Before there were any high-quality Java ID3 libraries, I created a low-quality library. This library has not received any maintenance since January 2004.
I use gmail. My username is gdusbabek. You can figure out the rest, spambots cannot.
Me at Last.fm. I also emit the occasional tweet.
Updated 4 November 2009
Gary Dusbabek