GScribble

I am posting this message from GScribble, an opensource blogging application in python created by my junior at college, Roshan Singh of IT Dept of NIT Durgapur. He created this application in the summer, as an internship project at Srijan! You can download the source code as well as this application here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/gscribble
Congrats on creating this great application dude, continue the good work. You have made GLUG and NIT DGP proud.

RSS feeds parser

I wrote a command line program in Python to read RSS feeds. I made use of a module in python called feedparser (http://www.feedparser.org). It has a few functions which make it very easy to parse the feeds. You can download the .py file here. I am trying to create a version of it for windows as well. The feedparser module must be installed in your machine in order to run this program.

To Do List:

(1) Better Formatting

(2) A Graphical User Interface

(3) A web interface

Finally, working on something!

All these days, I was not sure which project I would work on. I had this project called GRASS (by OSGEO) in my mind all these days and a lot of small bug fixes and feature enhancements that I was thinking about, but then came the breakthrough (not in my work, but the idea). I came across a software called Strong DC++, which is an improved version of the older DC++ clients. In Strong DC++, there are a lot of new features that make it a lot better than the others. The best feature that I liked is the multiple source downloads, which makes the downloads much faster if the same file is shared by more than one users and if the download slots are available. For more on Strong DC++, visit: http://strongdc.sourceforge.net/index.php?lang=eng

Though it is an opensource project, it was developed in windows and it uses WinAPI(WTL). So there is no version of StrongDC++ on Linux. And if you want it to run on linux, then you’ll have to use an emulator such as Wine. I have started using it through wine and it works fine. It crashes unexpectedly a few times, but its not bad for a software that we are running through wine. But still, I want to add a few more features to the existing StrongDC++ and also for further development, I thought it will be useful to rewrite the GUI using the wx toolkit. We have also planned to make this version a bit more customized to our LAN (or for that matter the LAN in any engineering college).

So here I am trying to learn Python and then the wxPython toolkit, to implement a GUI for the STRONG DC++ client!