I’m working on the transocder, learning C++ as I go and trying to make thing as easy as possible. Right now it looks like the entire thing has to be in C++. Fact is I’m thinking that instead of making this specific to Amarok to encode this as something that could be placed in any program. Thing is I’m wondering how much reinventing the wheel I’ll end up doing. I dislike the idea of reinventing the wheel.
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Was discussing QTScript calls planned for and already in Amarok 2 in the freenode channel tonight. Seems a good portion of the functionality I’d need for my media device script would need to be added into Amarok as it stands. Which means I’m back to C++ for the entire process, and to build what needs to be included into Amarok 2. Little bit more work than I was thinking when I first thought to try this.
I took a look at an example script for Amarok 2 which pulled lyrics for songs. This I then used in order to write a small script in order to search YouTube for related videos. I’m not sure exactly what it would do, but this is more for my edification then any real work.
So I decided I wanted to try to learn to code. And as nuts as I am I chose C++ as the programming language I would go with. Mostly because this is the most used language out there for binary programming. I should hopefully be able to apply what I learn in C++ to anything else. Or at least be able to figure the good stuff out.
Fact is I want to get a Nokia n800 and then create a program to use as a MythTV remote on it. If I ever get around to learning how I’ll post the source code here under GPLv3 or 2 for others to help and contribute to.
One thing I want to eventually do is actually go back to school and get a degree. but that is probably a long ways off.
This is Tom here, the guy who wrote the new version of DarkScribes.org currently running at http://beta.darkscribes.org.
Let me tell you, it wasn’t easy. Writing something like this is never easy. Took me about a month and a half of pounding out programming code.
But as you can see, it is working wonderfully. I added a couple of things that I thought would make DS better, like RSS feeds, PDF downloads of the stories, email mailing lists (optional), and more control over comments to reduce spamming (always an issue).
I am not new to PHP programming, I have been doing PHP programming for quite some time, but never have I written something as large and as complex as DS is. Yeah yeah, I know, DS is not really complex, but it is complex enough that it isn’t something that you just slap together and hope it works. You have to plan everything.