• Replace QJson with Qt's own JSON handling in Qt5

   · 29 May 2014

  tl;dr: A simple wrapper to use QJson for Qt4 and the built-in JSON parser for Qt5 so that QJson is not required if built with Qt5: qjson-qt5json-wrapper (MIT-licensed, no #ifdef in your code).

• Using Tomahawk resolvers in node.js

   · 28 Jan 2014

  tl;dr: I wrote a node.js module so that you can use packaged Tomahawk AXE archives in your node.js application for querying music services with a unified interface, see node-tomahawkjs

• Use Media Keys to control Tomahawk in Awesome WM

   · 29 Jan 2013

  Nowadays for controling a mediaplayer the MPRIS specification exists, sadly this interface seems unsupported by awesome. One solution would be to add some lines to the configuration of xbindkeys and to start it in the background. But as awesome already can handle global keybindings adding these lines to your .config/awesome/rc.lua will transmit the actions of...

• tomahawk-0.6.0beta1 added to Gentoo Overlay

   · 10 Jan 2013

  Yesterday was the release of the first beta for Tomahawk 0.6.0. Tomahawk is a music player which decouples the name of the song from the source it is streamed from. Using the Playdar API it resolves the location from where to stream using all of your available sources.

• Songride Beta available for testing

   · 07 Jan 2013

  About 3 years ago I made a little mashup using Ruby, Google Charts API and the Last.fm API and a bit of magic that listed you from where your favorite artist were coming from. As an example this was the chart output for my favorite artists:

• spotify-0.8.8.323 added to Gentoo Overlay

   · 06 Jan 2013

  Some weeks ago Spotify released a preview of their new discovery features and gave some people the option to test it on Windows or Mac. Last Thursday they released their discovery features for the linux version.

• redis and hiredis added to Gentoo Overlay

   · 23 Dec 2012

  While I was writing some more code for songride I felt that I should have the latest redis version installed. After running emerge '>=dev-db/redis-2.4.17' I was confronted with the following error message:

• ktoblzcheck bindings for Node.JS

   · 07 Dec 2012

  Checking the correctness of a combination of bank identification number (BLZ) and account number is a complicated task in Germany. There are about 140 different methods how this combination is checked depending on the bank from which the combination originates. A library which solves this problem is ktoblzcheck. At the moment you could use it simply as a C++...