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  The legend of Koos Lee

  Stii 1:34 pm on March 11, 2010 | Comments: 0 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: filmography, koos lee

  The very creative and talented Remano de Beer from 12Eleven productions are telling the story of the Legend Koos Lee in a series of short episodes.

  As they put it:

  Annoying Sound-FX, Over-Acting, Cheesy Dialogue, Zooms galore & senseless Violence… this is Kung-Fu Moviemaking at its best. Prepare for The Legend of Koos Lee.

  What is not to love about that!? Also check out the dialog in episode 2. Epic! I know the guys are doing some HUGE other project which is going to be very, very good, but I’m sworn to silence on that one. Can’t wait for episode 3… Will keep you all posted as soon as it is out!

  Episode 1

  Watch on Vuzu.tv

  Episode 2

  Watch on Vuzu.tv

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  How does this happen in magazines?

  Stii 8:12 am on March 11, 2010 | Comments: 1 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: advertising (2), funny (3), magazines (2)

  Seriously, I thought magazines have people that check things and cross check and proof read, etc… How does this slip through the cracks?

  As terrible as this is though, it is FUNNY!

  

   
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    Craig 8:22 am on March 11, 2010 Permalink | Reply
    

    ROFL! What a laugh to start the morning off! :)

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  Pubsubhubbub on Google appspot

  Stii 7:36 am on March 11, 2010 | Comments: 2 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Afrigator (23), google (8), PHP (7), pubsubhubbub (3), pushpress (2), Python (13), Wordpress (13)

  It is the weirdest thing. I was having issues subscribing to blogs that is using pubsubhubbub.appspot.com using a Python script. It returned a 500 Internal Server error without fail. So I rewrote the process in PHP and like magic, it is gone… I used PHP and CURL to subscribe to the appspot service. In Python I used the urllib2 library. Somewhere in the back of my mind I vaguely remember appspot not liking urllib2, but I haven’t really checked due to time constraints. I’ll have a look soon, but if you’re going to use Python to subscribe to feeds, I would suggest trying to do so with CURL.

  The good news is that all is good on Afrigator now. All blogs that are using some form of Pubsubhubbub service will be realtime in no time.

  If you’re running on Wordpress (not Wordpress.com) and you have not yet installed PuSHPress, please do so soon!

   
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    Tim 2:32 pm on March 11, 2010 Permalink | Reply
    

    Strange, i’m getting the exact same errors (momentarily for all feeds on the appspot hub). I posted a message in the pubsubhubbub discussion group: http://groups.google.com/group/pubsubhubbub

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      Stii 3:40 pm on March 11, 2010 Permalink | Reply
      

      I may be wrong, but I think it has got to do with using urllib2. Try using cURL http://pycurl.sourceforge.net/ That should work.

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  Realtime feed updates with Pubsubhubbub on Afrigator

  Stii 8:34 am on March 10, 2010 | Comments: 7 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Afrigator (23), pubsubhubbub (3), Wordpress (13)

  Okay, I’ve implemented this beast. Feeds that support Pubsubhubbub functionality will now be able to distribute their posts as they are published to Afrigator. Well, all but Blogger or Blogspot feeds as I’m having a weird issue with pubsubhubbub.appspot.com which is the hub for Blogger/Blogspot blogs.

  If you are using Wordpress.com (i.e. yourname.wordpress.com) your good to go. If you run your own installation of Wordpress, I strongly suggest that you install the PuSHPress plugin. Why? Here is a good couple of reasons:

  1. It get you more exposure. Your latest post would be published immediately. This results in your content being distributed as they’re published instead of hours later.

  2. It saves you bandwidth. We don’t need to check your entire feed every hour. We sit back and wait until you publish a blog post.

  3. We’re not the only ones doing it. Other services and aggregators also uses Pubsubhubbub. Services like Friendfeed, etc. Which means you’ll save even MORE bandwidth and your content would be even more realtime.

  Okay, I’m still having issues with Blogspot blogs. They use a Google Appspot application to enable the realtime publishing of their feeds. However, when I try to subscribe at pubsubhubbub.appspot.com it always returns a 500 Internal Server Error and I’m not sure why. I tried setting various headers as I thought that maybe it is because I’m using a Python script to subscribe, but to no avail. I checked using the service Hurl and that works every time without fail. I’m a bit frustrated and lost. If anyone have any ideas, I’d welcome it.

   
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    Nick Duncan 9:56 am on March 10, 2010 Permalink | Reply
    

    Hi Stii

    What header variables did you change?

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      Stii 10:47 am on March 10, 2010 Permalink | Reply
      

      I tried changing the Content-Type headers and the User-Agent. But what puzzles me is the 500 error. If it was rejecting my script, surely it shouldn’t give a 500 server error? Am I missing something?

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    Nick Duncan 10:50 am on March 10, 2010 Permalink | Reply
    

    It is puzzling indeed… Maybe give PHP a bash? Just out of interest, have you tried running the script from a different IP?

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      Stii 10:56 am on March 10, 2010 Permalink | Reply
      

      Well, I tried using HURL and that worked fine. I should maybe give PHP a go. Hopefully…
      Thanks mate!

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        Nick Duncan 11:39 am on March 10, 2010 Permalink | Reply
        

        I used PHP and CURL to connect to appspot with no problems at all. Sorry I couldn’t help more… When you come right, let us know! If I think of anything else in the mean time I’ll give you a shout.

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  Try number 32098392

  Stii 7:37 pm on March 9, 2010 | Comments: 0 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: debugging (2)

  Who am I to argue?

  Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.
  Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
  by definition, not smart enough to debug it.
  – Brian W. Kernighan

   
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  The most awesome plant ever!

  Stii 6:52 pm on March 9, 2010 | Comments: 0 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: funny (3)

  I’ve got a couple of these actually. One right here on my desk!

  

   
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  This is getting old...

  Stii 6:26 pm on March 9, 2010 | Comments: 0 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: csi, funny (3)

  We all love them CSI jokes. Could this be true?

  

   
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  The flow of information

  Stii 5:37 pm on March 9, 2010 | Comments: 0 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: information, news (2), social networking (5), traditional media

  I found this article on UX Magazine very interesting. It is about the flow of information and how it changed from broadcasting to networked.

  Broadcast media structures take one critical thing for granted: attention. There is an assumption that everyone will tune in and give their attention to the broadcast entity, even though that was never true in the first place.

  It also shed some light on how information flows in a networked environment. We all know that when we tweet, our tweet isn’t necessarily seen by all our followers. Similarly, we don’t sit and watch our Twitter stream day in and day out to catch up on all thats being said. That would have been a broadcasting model. In a networking environment we decide what can have our attention and what can’t. Very tricky…

  Read it. It is well worth it! Streams of Content, Limited Attention

   
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  Dare you to say Pubsubhubbub when drunk

  Stii 4:41 pm on March 9, 2010 | Comments: 1 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Afrigator (23), pubsubhubbub (3), pushpress (2), Wordpress (13)

  What a crazy name! Anyway, the idea is much cooler than what the name is. Basically, what Pubsubhubbub does is it enable your blog to broadcast your new blog posts as you publish them. Instead of aggregators like Afrigator periodically fetching and processing your feed, you tell Afrigator “HEY! Listen up! I’ve written something new and here it is.”

  A lot of services uses it nowadays and it is gaining traction. If you’re on blogger/blogspot or wordpress.com you needn’t worry about it as they have already enabled it for those platforms. If you are on a self hosted wordpress blog, I suggest you check out the awesome wordpress plugin called PuSHPress. Install it now! It would be worth it ;)

  Oh and here is a video explaining it in a cool way.

  Note: I’m going to churn quite a bit of posts to test our Afrigator implementation of Pubsubhubbub.

   
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  I wish I was this creative with an iPhone

  Stii 9:18 am on March 5, 2010 | Comments: 1 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: creative, everyday looper, iphone (5), iphone apps (2), Music (6)

  Check out this video. It is a song made with an iPhone App called everyday looper. What is amazing is how this guy just do it on the fly and it sounds DAMN good!

  It always without fail amaze me how good some people are at doing random things like this.

  This truly is one of the best things I’ve seen someone do with an iPhone.

   
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    Deems 10:18 am on March 5, 2010 Permalink | Reply
    

    That was pretty damn impressive! Nice find.