Mobile development

Following my discovery of the price disparity between websites, I've decided that in light of developing mobile applications for DDA Systems, I need test handsets for both Android and iOS platforms.

For Android, the handset of choice is the HTC Desire S, an upgrade on the HTC Desire I have . . .
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Interactive Data CTF/CSP Perl interface released

I've been working on a Perl interface to Interactive Data's Client Side Processor which handles their CTF (Comstock Token Format) protocol and provides the results as data structures, or alternatively converts to their historical Bate format. If you don't know what any of that means, this isn't the post for you; please move . . .
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When media servers go bad

Due to electrical problems within the house, I needed to have a inspection done on the system. Unfortunately when they arrived, I wasn't given enough warning and they powered off the mains and I hadn't shut down the media server.

When they left, I powered it back on; nothing. The machine was dead.

As the . . .
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Automatic torrent management with rtorrent and some helper scripts

Further to my posts on using Flexget (previously) and tl2rssPL (previously) to manage the automatic downloading of torrent files (or .nzb, depending on your preference), the final stage is to have a BitTorrent client download the content of the torrent and upon completion, process the downloaded media.

My client of choice is . . .
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TV show management with Flexget

I use Flexget to automatically find and download TV shows for my viewing pleasure. I use it in conjunction with TorrentLeech and tl2rssPL, but it can be used with any site which provides an index and source for the shows you're interested in.

Setting it up can be a pain, so I . . .
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