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Move to Mezzanine

Move to Mezzanine

For the longest time, I had left this site abandoned due to other projects. Another thing that kept me away was that I did not really have the time to continue to develop the site using mostly custom components anymore. I needed to find some Django project that would allow me to gain a good starting point and that would allow me to modify the project to suit my needs. After many endeavours in the past, I have changed my mindset about using off the shelf software in order to get a job done. Re-use is a great thing and only having to worry about writing the final 10% of a project allows me to save a lot of time and it allows for me to implement more functionality than would have been possible otherwise. [...]

AntiMicro Is a Thing

AntiMicro Is a Thing

I like gaming on Linux although I am forced to play most PC games on Windows 7. Unfortunately, there is still not much of a market for Linux games; maybe the Steam client for Linux can help change that. For the past several months, I have had my main gaming PC hooked up to my TV and I play PC games with a controller. Using a keyboard and a mouse with my current setup would be very cumbersome. Although most Linux games nowadays usually have some form of controller support, there are many older, and some newer games, that still do not have any kind of controller support enabled. [...]

Drupal Views Pager with Different Default Page

Drupal Views Pager with Different Default Page

When working with Drupal Views recently, I wanted to make the Views pager behave like the Related Videos block of the Videos section on this site. In other words, I wanted the block to display the page that the current content is on by default as opposed to showing the first page of content. The primary focus of the site I am working on is video focused so using the Videos section for reference made sense. [...]

ryochan7.com open sourced

Over the past day or so, I have been making changes to how this web site is deployed. This web site now utilizes virtualenv. Using virtualenv along with pip has allowed for a much easier transition between development and production setups. My development and productions Python environments can now be identical without much of a hassle and different environments can use different versions of similar Python packages; being able to specify dependencies and install them from pypi using pip is also a great feature. This method of deploying Django projects has become fairly common and working with virtualenv has shown me why it is becoming popular. [...]

YouTubed-2x 2011.03.26 release

If you have been paying attention to my GitHub profile, you would have seen that I have been making improvements to my old programs. YouTubed-2x is an application that I wanted to fix up using the knowledge that I have gained over the past couple of months. YouTubed-2x has been a decent flash video downloader but there have been issues that have been a part of the program for too long. [...]