I’ve just released foo_audioscrobbler 1.4.6, the standalone Audioscrobbler/Last.fm component for foobar2000.

The new version fixes a re-authentication problem which caused the “Previous submission still in progress” error some people were experiencing and fixes an issue with field remappings not working for dynamic tracks.
The new version also uses the foobar2000 v1.0 SDK (yay, 1.0!) and features a non-legacy preferences page. Updating is highly recommended.

Download foo_audioscrobbler 1.4.6

Happy scrobbling! :B

Some days ago I’ve stumbled across an interesting article by Jim Collins who observes that most of us

Instead of leading a disciplined life, [..] lead a busy life.

His tool to address this situation is to create a ’stop doing’ list which is according to the author more important than a ‘to do’ list — simply because it will result in more time available to spend on things you love to do. He comes up with three easy questions which can guide you at creating a ’stop doing’ list:

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It’s been a while since the last release, but I finally managed to get Mp3tag v2.45 out over the last weekend. I think it’s a really nice release — probably the best! But I’m saying that to myself with almost every increment

Highlights of the new version include:

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When did you learn to program? What was the first programming language you’ve used? What was the hardest bug you ever needed to track down?

These are only the starting questions of Peter Seibel’s recent book »Coders at Work« which is one of the best interview books I’ve ever read.

In this book, Peter Seibel (who is known for his book »Practical Common LISP«) interviews 15 famous programmers, among them

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I recently decided to buy a code-signing certificate for Mp3tag.

According to Wikipedia

Code signing is the process of digitally signing executables and scripts to confirm the software author and guarantee that the code has not been altered or corrupted since it was signed by use of a cryptographic hash.

This sounds great, doesn’t it? But finally being able to sign the application involves some steps and hurdles which I try to explain in this post.

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Last week we’ve released EMFText 1.2 and are very proud of it!

EMFText is an Eclipse-based tool for defining textual syntaxes for languages described by an Ecore metamodel. EMFText generates tool support, such as a feature-rich editor and facilities to load and store models as text. Using EMFText, Domain Specific Languages can be built quickly and without the need to learn new technologies and concepts.

Version 1.2 of EMFText addresses more than 120 issues and offers the following new features:
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Absolutely terrific trailer for the Typophile Film Fest 5.

(via @julians)

Recently, I had to extract a subdirectory of an existing and very large Subversion repository to a separate repository. Two options quickly came to my mind

1. Create the new repository and commit all necessary files.
2. Copy the complete repository and remove the unnecessary files

Both options have serious drawbacks — with the first one, the complete history is lost, with the second one, the complete history of the deleted files is still available.

So I decided to do some research and found another solution.
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I’ve just released foo_audioscrobbler 1.4.2, the standalone Audioscrobbler/Last.fm component for foobar2000.

The new version is mainly a bugfix release. It fixes a crash issue which was reported via foobar2000’s internal crash reporter. Updating is highly recommended.

Download foo_audioscrobbler 1.4.2

Happy scrobbling! :B

Personas by MIT PhD student Aaron Zinman is an online identity querying and categorization system that searches the internet for digital traces of you (or to be more specifically, of your name).

I particularly like watching how the data is queried and the graphs are being built, but also the idea behind the project is absolutely worth noting and raises important questions:

In a world where fortunes are sought through data-mining vast information repositories, the computer is our indispensable but far from infallible assistant. Personas demonstrates the computer’s uncanny insights and its inadvertent errors, such as the mischaracterizations caused by the inability to separate data from multiple owners of the same name. It is meant for the viewer to reflect on our current and future world, where digital histories are as important if not more important than oral histories, and computational methods of condensing our digital traces are opaque and socially ignorant.

This is my graph (as of today):

(via spreeblick.com)