Python tryout

nospam@example.com (Denis Arh) — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 10:44:52 +0000

I've just bought myself a new car-radio (Pioneer DEH-4000UB) with USB key support. And to my great surprise it does not read files from the stick in the sorted (alphabetical) order but "in order as they were written to media". There is a workaround (also noted in the owner's manual), to name the files with 001, 002, 003 prefix. A stupid and time consuming workaround. While looking around if there are any other players with same misfeature, I've noticed that most of them work in the same way (surprisingly, sorting works perfectly when playing music from CD).

... and how does this relate with the post title? Well, I had to write a script that will rename my files so they will comply with Pioneer's "standards". I didn't want to waste my mad PHP skills to do such trivial job, so instead, I've wasted most of Saturday's morning learning Python and produced this script..

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nospam@example.com (Denis Arh) — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 23:11:40 +0000

So, I've finally decided that building my own blog software is a waste of my precious time. Serendipity (I think i still can't pronounce this one just right) suits all my needs. Surprisingly - it works out of the box even on "exotic" software collection I use on my server (nginx, php-fpm, postgresql 8.3 beta 4).

So this here should be a place where i can publish info about my projects, various researches, obstacles I run into... And a good way to improve my language skills (English that is... ;>).

Plans for now: in a few weeks I'm planning to perform a comparison of MySQL SphinxSE and PostgreSQL FTS. I'm also preparing a small speech for Kiberpipa.org -- it's title should remain a secret for now.

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