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Party, App Engine, Android Market, & Articles
I'm having an I have the house to myself
party this Friday (4 September 2009). If you're interested in coming you should get in touch for details. I'd love to see you there (here).
Two-second bitch: Along with all the other things Google's App Engine does wrong (like, why can't I have a naked domain?), it will let you add/edit any of the fields in the datastore you want through it's data view interface, as long as it isn't a Text field... WTF? Guess now I get to write an editor.
Site-news 1: I just put up an article on one of the many ways the Android Market is broken. I'm specifically talking about the DRM. I also wrote one a few days ago critiquing an email I got talking about the so-called ObamaCare from the point of view of a doctor in Atlanta called Dr. Zane Pollard. His arguments offended me, not because of the politics but because they were frivolous.
Site-news 2: There was a slight problem with the Atom feeds. I believe it's corrected now.
-Jeremy Logan 03 September 2009 03:53 UTC
Site News (New Code Driving... Everything)
Over the weekend I rewrote pretty much this whole site. The only major differences that you'll probably notice are that the blog section (this) and the articles section now have Atom feeds (basically RSS, but better).
The other major improvement is that the whole thing is actually database-driven now. Embarrassingly enough it's largely been static HTML files up to this point. Major bonus to doing it this way include getting to use real templates, drastically less code, and the fact that I can now enter stuff through an administrative interface... also the afore-mentioned feeds.
As it stands the JavaScript on the Microsoft Points Converter and Rock Band Song Difficulties project pages are a little broken, but they should be back up and running soon(ish). If you notice any other problems, please let me know.
-Jeremy Logan 25 August 2009 00:13 UTC
Portland Mercury and QRCode Project
I got mentioned briefly in this week's edition of the Mercury for my Android app.
I also have a new project up. It's something I just hacked together real quickly to read barcodes and QRCodes from your screen. Check it out: On-Screen barcode & QRCode Decoder.
-Jeremy Logan 20 July 2009 00:00 UTC
I completely forgot to mention that my Android app is out, and in the Android Market. There are two versions; Portland Transit and Portland Transit Lite. They've been out for a while and people genuinely seem to like them.
I also have a new article up. It's about a really weird similarity between the songs "Group Four" (by Massive Attack) and "All Along The Watchtower" (by Bear McCreary). Check the article out if you have a few minutes.
-Jeremy Logan 08 May 2009 00:00 UTC
I've been playing with Android development quite a bit and my first app is almost ready to roll... just a few lose ends to clean up. Stay tuned. Now I just have to decide if I want to pay Google $25 to host my free app in the Android Market.
In other news: I should really RSS-ify this thing already.
-Jeremy Logan 28 March 2009 00:00 UTC
I'm not sure if they always had it or not, but the official Rock Band site now has the Rock Band song difficulties as well. Since I'm lazy (and they are inclined to) I think I'm going to let them handle the updates from here on out. If I'm bored I may update my info, but it'd be wise to just consult their listings from now on.
-Jeremy Logan 12 February 2009 00:00 UTC
New Project: Rock Band Song Difficulties
I added the Rock Band Song Difficulties project page today. I've been working on this in spreadsheet form now for a while, but didn't get it up on here until today. I'll try to remember to keep it up to date (or close).
-Jeremy Logan 19 January 2009 00:00 UTC
Jyte Charts and Cred Bar Back Up
The back-end work for the Jyte Charts and Jyte Cred Bar has been deployed. Current users' embeds should be functional again. The forms for new users to set them up should be back soon.
-Jeremy Logan 06 January 2009 00:01 UTC
For the current itteration of this site I'm running it on Google's App Engine. I'm really curious about the system and what I can do with it.
The previous version of this site was written in several languages (most notably Ruby and PHP) but App Engine currently only speaks Python. I've tried to keep as much of the functionality as possible intact, however I haven't had time to rewrite everything and I'm not sure I will. Please check back later to see if I've made any further progress.
-Jeremy Logan 05 January 2009 00:01 UTC