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Snail on sail
Originally uploaded by Colours of Infinity.

The photo above is in no way related to the slowness of the development on movida. Ok?!?

Ok, enought with it. This post is not about bikinis or naked racoons, in case you are wondering, so feel free to stop reading and close this page.

There’s been lot’s of progress on movida since my last post and mainly on the Smart View (how does it come that I call something I have written "smart"?!?) and on the bug-side

In short, this post is about zooming the Smart View, new movie attributes, new smart view controls and compressed SVGs. No, no bikinis!

growlingagainstgod
Originally uploaded by biscottiallozenzero.

I took myself another hour to complete the movida import wizard. Movies are now being actually imported and added to the current collection

The movies you see in the screenshot below have been added using the wizard. I have just typed ".45", selected the only "exact match" found on IMDb.com, then I have hit the new fancy "new search" button to enter a new query: "matrix".

That’s all. Movie posters and all the information have been downloaded from IMDb.com and parsed using a perl script.

In case you are having some doubt, the posters will be imported in the collections persistent data directory and saved in the collection’s zip file. This way you won’t loose them

Originally uploaded by pphuang.

1.

I have been working with Eclipe/CDT and the Qt integration and it’s pretty cool.

Eclipse became my favourite Java IDE when I started working on a big Java project some time ago and, althought I still feel it is pretty slow and overbloated, I still like it.

The Qt integration works pretty well - even with complex Qt projects.
I could not manage to make it work with gdb yet but who cares… I have a buggy gdb so there is no way I can debug on Linux right now *___*

2.

Some disgusting "reporter" working for the second Italian national television, together with two rotten politicians (one from the left and one from the right side of the National Dump) were claiming that "television has invaded politics". If you don’t know about free speech and freedom of information here in Italy, and about what is going on in these in these weeks (or rather years), then you won’t understand, sorry.

Nevertheless, this one sounds new to me. It’s almost better than comparing Beppe Grillo’s V-Day initiative to terrorism. Thank you Maurizio Martinelli, I love you.

3.

I hate it when I realize I have spent 1 hour finding a bug that is more stupid than an aubergine playing Peter Griffin.

Btw. I have fixed a couple of bugs in the movida import wizard and multiple movies are now being parsed (and previewed) correctly. Check out the SVN or the latest development snapshot on the website.

May the nabaztag/tag be with you.

DAY BREAKS - Dedicated to Wans2pics
Originally uploaded by Wenspics.

The import plugin for Movida has made another small step.

I have updated most of the xsl/html template stuff and the final (well, ok, I will be adding another page, but until then this will remains the Last Page) page of the wizard is now showing a (buggy) html preview.

I have to fix lots of bugs (mainly because the XML has changed and the XSL files need an update so that the OMG customers coming from the USA can see the new KRPNSWHM features) but I’m happy with the results achieved so far.

Btw, I was thinking about supporting multi page responses (e.g. IMDb pages have some of the info on separate pages) but I will leave this out for now.
Btheotherway, I want movies to be searched on more than one search engine at a time but this is not possible at the moment.

Stand by for more hot chicks and bikinis.

I have forced myself to take about an hour to complete a couple of things in the movida import plugin. As you might have read in a previous post, I have been rewriting the import plugin to provide a script based interface.

The plugin loads search engine descriptions from an xml file. As soon as the user wants to use one of those engines, movida will attempt to update the scripts from the Internet if a proper URL has been provided.

An updated script is downloaded if the server’s file modification time is more recent than the date of the local file (if there is any!). And this code is working pretty well now

I have also managed to adapt and test a 3rd party perl script that parses an IMDb search results page. Look at the screenshot for the results (you will notice that Unicode characters are not a problem).

I am pretty busy these days with work and flat-hunting, so please stand by. Next step is to complete the movie import routine - but it shouldn’t take that much now.

 Edit: The example scripts have been updated fixing a couple of bugs on Linux.