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Moody - Set your current Spotify song as Skype mood

After a while of searching how to automaticly update your skype mood to your spotify song, I found this little tool called Moody.

A simple application which uses Spotifys and Skypes applescript API to simply update the Skype mood all x seconds. 

I’ve adopted that logic and ported Moody to Objective C - presenting Moody v1.0! A very simple background application which does exactly what the applescript brother does - just in the background and with ObjC.

Download it here - https://github.com/downloads/dabido/Moody/Moody.zip

or fork it here - https://github.com/dabido/Moody

Hope this helps someone.

ProxMate node live counter

Nerdy time!

I’ve recently implemented a live counter on ProxMates startpage:

Time to unveil the the logic behind it.

To accomplish that, i’ve added a very tiny node server to work as proxy between the webserver and the user. Every time a page gets unblocked, ProxMate pings a certain url, giving some information about the page which got unblocked (Usually time, browser and page).

Nginx forwards all requests arriving at that url to a intern node server. Something like that:

tcp_nodelay on;
proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8080/;
proxy_redirect off;

The node server itself counts all page unblocks and forwards them to the servers backend.  Before forwarding them, all connected sockets receive an update that a new video has been unblocked.

The whole server is basicly this:

var app = server.createServer(function(request, response) {

	if (!isUndefined(request.url))
	{
		// Parse request
		var url_parts = url.parse(request.url, true);
		var browser = url_parts.query["b"];
		var uri = url_parts.query["u"];
	
		if (!isUndefined(browser) && !isUndefined(uri))
		{
			// Ping the backend

			var config = {
				host: 'www.server.com',
				port:  80,
				path: '/url/to/backend/?u=' + encodeURIComponent(uri) + '&b='+browser
			}

			var req = server.request(config, function(res) {
				res.on('data', function(data) {
					// Count all unblocks
					unblocks = unblocks + 1;

					// Update all sockets
					io.sockets.emit("e_update", { "unblocks": unblocks });
				});
			});
			req.end();
		}
	}
	response.end();
});

For sockets i am using socket.io.

That’s how the magic happens :)

Reactivating the @SpaceSphere

It’s been a while since Twitter banned my bot @SpaceSphere (http://aqua3.bplaced.net/2011/06/the-spacesphere/) for flooding.

Today i’m bringing a new (updated) version back to life - presenting @SpaceSphere2. 

•  Less Spamming
•  Replies to tweets
•  Newest Twython version

The source is available on github - https://gist.github.com/1257372. Feel free to use it for whatever you want. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVn1oQL9sWg

Hello World

Hello World!