Marco Islas Blog

Billete Falso

markuz@islascruz.org (Marco Antonio Islas Cruz) — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 09:24:51 -0500

Billete Falso from Marco Antonio on Vimeo.

Un billete falso que llego al local... ya ni pedo..

Huapangos

markuz@islascruz.org (Marco Antonio Islas Cruz) — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 17:01:51 -0500

Huapangos at Huauchinango, Puebla from Marco Antonio on Vimeo.

Cristina and I went to Huauchinango, Puebla to celebrate our first anniversary, what a surprise that in Huauchinango are celebrating the city 149 anniversary. There is a bunch of people in the midtown park. We where watching some huapango bands performing and many people dancing. The next day, the first "Chiles en nogada" fest took place at midday.

Huauchinango is one of those small cities where Cristina and I like to live. Maybe in the future.. :-)

I realize a couple of things... My father's camera took very large videos and You can upload a video which size is more than 1Gb at least using Vimeo desktop uploader.

One more video:

iPhone4 vs HTC Evo

markuz@islascruz.org (Marco Antonio Islas Cruz) — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 14:01:30 -0500

Jajaja.. yes, I know, every phone has its own design problems, it just make me laugh when it says "It fucking prints money" and the other answers "I don't care!" or "It can grant up to tree wishes, even if one of those is for an iPhone" "I don't care".

Sofia want to sleep

markuz@islascruz.org (Marco Antonio Islas Cruz) — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 14:29:33 -0500

Sofia want to sleep from Marco Antonio on Vimeo.

My Laptop's hard drive failure.

markuz@islascruz.org (Marco Antonio Islas Cruz) — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 14:28:01 -0500

I/O Error from Marco Antonio on Vimeo.

Opening files from nautilus

markuz@islascruz.org (Marco Antonio Islas Cruz) — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 12:13:08 -0500

Christine Dbus from Marco Antonio on Vimeo.

The trick is this, set nautilus to open files with christine, if christine si already opened, when nautilus launch christine and pass the file as argument christine will detect via dbus de running instance of christine, then, will send via dbus the name of the file to open :-).

Dan Pink - Ilustrated

markuz@islascruz.org (Marco Antonio Islas Cruz) — Mon, 31 May 2010 13:47:55 -0500

I have already posted the whole video by Dan Pink, but this ilustrated version may help you to get it.

How the iPad was invented

markuz@islascruz.org (Marco Antonio Islas Cruz) — Fri, 28 May 2010 22:09:36 -0500

Christine webservices

markuz@islascruz.org (Marco Antonio Islas Cruz) — Fri, 21 May 2010 15:28:55 -0500

christine webservices from Marco Antonio on Vimeo.

This is christine running with the new webservice plugin :-). This plugin still need some test, and haz just a couple of services like set_location, play and stop. This will let you control Christine or get some information from other programs.

Gmail drag and drop support

markuz@islascruz.org (Marco Antonio Islas Cruz) — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 09:58:35 -0500

Dan Pink

markuz@islascruz.org (Marco Antonio Islas Cruz) — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 16:40:12 -0500

Just listen to him.

Video: Hitler Finds Out About Windows Mobile 7 Series

markuz@islascruz.org (Marco Antonio Islas Cruz) — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 11:39:48 -0600

Just another video about Hittler but this time "talking" about Windows Mobile 7 Series

Silverlight/Moonlight on Teleton page

markuz@islascruz.org (Marco Antonio Islas Cruz) — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 00:32:25 -0600

Silverlight/Moonlight on Teleton page

Originally uploaded by markuz

I've entered in the Teleton web page just to know when it started, and my surprise is that they used silverlight/Moonlight to play the teleton transmition.

Christine running on MS Win32

markuz@islascruz.org (Marco Antonio Islas Cruz) — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 04:29:06 -0500

Finally!!!, Christine, my beloved media player is running on Windows, this is something that I really wanted to do for the next release. I had spend the last nights trying to compile it, first I tried to compile GStreamer, then I realized that there are binaries in the GStreamer WinBuilds project, with a little less work, I tried to compile Christine using cygwin, but it didn't worked. Then using the Python's distutils I compiled the C modules and I created a binary with Py2exe

There it is, running. I still have a lot of work to do, because Christine is written for UNIX and several technologies like Dbus are not in win32, although it seems to be in progress.

I'm running it on a virtual machine and I haven't tested if it really plays something, I'll give a try tomorrow.

For tonight I'm happy :-)

Some shots:

Christine playing videos

markuz@islascruz.org (Marco Antonio Islas Cruz) — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:31:00 -0500

Christine playing videos

Originally uploaded by markuz

I was playing with gstreamer video sinks, I found that using cacasink and aasink you can play videos in ascii mode ;-) funny even when (for me) has no good use.

Ringa Ringa

markuz@islascruz.org (Marco Antonio Islas Cruz) — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 03:28:14 -0500

I love this song, I heard it from the Slumdog Millionaire sound track. This video is an adaptation to the Ringa Ringa song.
The original video and the original sound track of it is here

Wrap text in a TreeView column

markuz@islascruz.org (Marco Antonio Islas Cruz) — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 02:04:53 -0500

In ICT Consulting I did a small program that help the support team to create new tickets in the tracking system and keep them updated. In the "update" screen, I put a TreeView to show the comments history.

For Gtk TreeViews are just a "viewer" of the data stored in the "model", but it depends in the way the cell renderer will do its job. The render for text is called.. yes, you guessed: CellRendererText. This item will render the text as it is in the model.

If you are using text with markup (with the pango markup) it will be displayed with bold, italic and many other properties you define in your markup. But this render have a small problem, if you have a long line because the input method was a text box and the user didn't use the return key then you will end with a very very long line in the treeview.

If the line is not too big then the use of the scrollbar may help you, but, if that's not the case, and you or your user have to check more and more lines like that, using the scrollbar is tedious.

The fix: make the column usually big to wrap the text.

The trick is know the size of the window, and compute the space left by other columns then, set the
wrap_width property of the cell renderer according to the space left. That's what the "resize_wrap" function do.

treeview resize

Subtitled Enjuto Mojamuto!

markuz@islascruz.org (Marco Antonio Islas Cruz) — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 00:55:28 -0500

Manu Chao - Ay Papito!

markuz@islascruz.org (Marco Antonio Islas Cruz) — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 23:22:40 -0500

I love this song

Cake - Waiting

markuz@islascruz.org (Marco Antonio Islas Cruz) — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 09:08:54 -0500

I love this song.

Christine Drag & Drop

markuz@islascruz.org (Marco Antonio Islas Cruz) — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 12:08:28 -0500

This is a video just to show that the upcoming Christine 0.5.0 will have a drag and drop import :-)

Python mas Wiimote controlling a 15 tonnes arm

markuz@islascruz.org (Marco Antonio Islas Cruz) — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 19:40:59 -0500

Wiimote is a very interesting controller, and thanks that it uses bluetooth you can extend its use beyond the Wii, in this vide you'll see what a team of 5 could do with it an the Python programming language. I will not use this wiimote to use that mechanical arm just because IMO is too risky just because the wiimote is not an industrial controller, but it could be a start :-)

Clever windows

markuz@islascruz.org (Marco Antonio Islas Cruz) — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:42:16 -0500

Looks promising, but, to be honest, I don't like the way the appear, and the focus switch between windows is ugly. Anyway, it looks nice.

Head Tracking for Desktop VR Displays using the WiiRemote

markuz@islascruz.org (Marco Antonio Islas Cruz) — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 23:01:50 -0500

Project natal rocks, but this (at least for me) rocks even more..

If they get together that would be awesome!

Sockets (and some other files) and PyGTK without threads.

markuz@islascruz.org (Marco Antonio Islas Cruz) — Wed, 27 May 2009 00:58:06 -0500

I recently write about PyGTK and Threads motivated by the work I have been doing on ICT Consulting where I have a graphical application that need to have a web service where some other applications could connect and execute some of its public function.
My first aproach was Threads just because with them I could use an infinite loop reading the socket while in the main thread the gtk loop runs. This is nice if your application is going to ask/request something trough the socket and receive the answer at some point, then, when the answer is here, you could emit a signal and then move your gui to show the answer.
But, what if you need to receive the request and then, move your gui asking to the user for an answer or show something in the screen, or whatever, you could make use of what I just did in the PyGTK and Threads post, where you use gobject.idle_add to launche the function that will modify your gui, which is nice you don't care about the return value of the task.
Today, looking in trough the gobject reference I saw the gobject.io_add_watch function. This function will let you, as its name describes, watch for the I/O activity in a file descriptor. As sockets are treated like sockets, then you have the chance to use it here.
What about that?, well, if you have the chance to check the I/O of the socket file then you will know when data arrives and call the proper handler, and do it in the very same thread that the main loop. Then, you can move the GUI and return something if you have to.
In webservices this is useful because you can catch any error and inform the client that there is something wrong with the function it calls. The implementation is quite simple, let's do it with the code that we already use in the Threads post.
This is the server:

import SOAPpy

import gtk

import gobject

import time

def hello(name):

        dialog = gtk.Dialog("Hello dialog",

                        None,

                        gtk.DIALOG_MODAL | gtk.DIALOG_DESTROY_WITH_PARENT,

                        (gtk.STOCK_CANCEL, gtk.RESPONSE_CANCEL,

                                gtk.STOCK_OK, gtk.RESPONSE_ACCEPT,)

                        )

        label = gtk.Label('Hello %s'%name)

        dialog.vbox.pack_start(label)

        label.show()

        response = dialog.run()

        dialog.destroy()

        return response

def change_time(label):

        label.set_text(repr(time.time()))

        return True

def handle_request(source, condition, webservice):

        try:

                webservice.handle_request()

        except:

                pass

        return True

soapserver = SOAPpy.SOAPServer(('',8080))

soapserver.registerFunction(hello)

gobject.io_add_watch(soapserver.socket, gobject.IO_IN,

                     handle_request, soapserver)

win = gtk.Window()

win.connect('destroy', gtk.main_quit)

win.set_size_request(300,300)

label = gtk.Label('Main window')

gobject.timeout_add(100, change_time, label)

win.add(label)

win.show_all()

gtk.main()

And the client:

#!/usr/bin/env/python

import SOAPpy 

import sys

server = SOAPpy.SOAPProxy("http://localhost:8080/")

prueba = sys.argv[1]

args = tuple(sys.argv[2:])

print args

func = getattr(server, prueba, False)

print func(*args)

Using it like this:

python soaptest.py hello markuz

gives as result the integer value for the response asociated to the button you just clicked.

Gtk webservices with no threads from Marco Antonio on Vimeo.

I hope this information is useful for you. For me, it saves my day!

Christine

markuz@islascruz.org (Marco Antonio Islas Cruz) — Tue, 19 May 2009 00:18:55 -0500

This is one of the few things I change on christine, the side bar, now, it will display what you want to view, the sources list or the queue list because there is not enough space for both list.
Youtube seems to have problems with my video, anyway, maybe you want to download it in ogg format: Download, or watch it on Vimeo

Sofia Valentina on video

markuz@islascruz.org (Marco Antonio Islas Cruz) — Sat, 16 May 2009 13:58:10 -0500

Cristina just took this video while she was talking to Sofia Valentina.

Young Frankenstein - Dr. Fronkonsteen meets EYE-gor

markuz@islascruz.org (Marco Antonio Islas Cruz) — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 00:14:23 -0600

Christine: subtitles.

markuz@islascruz.org (Marco Antonio Islas Cruz) — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 00:10:40 -0600

I was working tonight in subtitles, and fixing a couple of issues in christine :-)

Video: Google Chrome

markuz@islascruz.org (Marco Antonio Islas Cruz) — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 20:34:47 -0600

A video from the japan Google Chrome team, encouraging people to install Google Chrome

Album cover.

markuz@islascruz.org (Marco Antonio Islas Cruz) — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 11:12:29 -0600

Tonight I worked on the last.fm plugin, this time, to fetch the album cover of the current song's album. Check the video.

Christine and album covers from Marco Antonio on Vimeo.

Christine, DBus and Cairo

markuz@islascruz.org (Marco Antonio Islas Cruz) — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 00:35:26 -0600

I have been working tonight trying to create a small notification window for christine, besides we have the PyNotify plugin, I feel this need to try something more. Then I use this great how to create glass like windows and create this:

Christine, dbus and Cairo from Marco Antonio on Vimeo.

In the video you'll see the notification window displaying the button I'm pressing in my keyboard to control christine without having christine on focus. The code is already in svn if you want to try.

More about Christine and dbus

markuz@islascruz.org (Marco Antonio Islas Cruz) — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 00:01:00 -0600

I have been playing in the night and I have added support on christine to use dbus and GNOME services to react when you press the Prev, Next, Play and Stop GNOME media buttons.

Christine and Dbus Part. II from Marco Antonio on Vimeo.

Christine and DBus

markuz@islascruz.org (Marco Antonio Islas Cruz) — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 03:11:55 -0600

I've started coding the DBus interface for christine, is quite simple to use dbus in your scripts, I have just created a few methods just to test the dbus module and it worked just fine. Going to create the other methods, wich should be quite simple, since I have been working in some sort of 'all in one' module.
The video looks pretty nice on vimeo, I have seen videos with this service and I like a lot the quality, youtube is nice but not the best to show your screencasts, flickr video just allow me 90 seconds of video. I will upload some more videos on my vimeo account :-). Btw.. if you use vimeo and christine, upload your screencast and join the group

Debugging with pydev

markuz@islascruz.org (Marco Antonio Islas Cruz) — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 17:52:43 -0600

My first attempt to create video tutorials :-)

El nibblesmx es la neta

markuz@islascruz.org (Marco Antonio Islas Cruz) — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 12:01:26 -0600

Saludos pa nibblesmx

Christine with visualizations

markuz@islascruz.org (Marco Antonio Islas Cruz) — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 01:23:14 -0600

Christine with visualizations

Originally uploaded by markuz

This is christine using gstreamer's goom plugin :-)

Giving love to christine

markuz@islascruz.org (Marco Antonio Islas Cruz) — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 00:52:54 -0500

Giving love to christine, originally uploaded by markuz.

This is my desktop testing some changes I have done to christine in this night. Most of them code cleaning and some harmless optimizations.

Update: I have made a screencast, you can download it

here

Update: Maybe you want to see the full resolution video

Christine folder import

markuz@islascruz.org (Marco Antonio Islas Cruz) — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 16:27:34 -0500

christine, originally uploaded by markuz.

This is christine (trunk) importing a whole folder, about 1321 songs in just 1:07 mins.

Christine kicking the Compiz nuts.

markuz@islascruz.org (Marco Antonio Islas Cruz) — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 14:12:06 -0500

Christine kicking the Compiz nuts., originally uploaded by markuz.

Importing several directories at the time...

Kill -9

markuz@islascruz.org (Marco Antonio Islas Cruz) — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 14:13:01 -0500

Disfrutenlo.

Nearshoring... The Movie!

markuz@islascruz.org (Marco Antonio Islas Cruz) — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 13:05:47 -0500

Dame 10 razones

markuz@islascruz.org (Marco Antonio Islas Cruz) — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 17:29:14 -0600

Acabo de regresar de comer, una muy buena comida, unos nachos con extra queso y un refresco (de ese del mas popular) GRANDE que por cierto ni me acabe. Y aunque no suene esto como una comida muy nutritiva, el entretenimiento que tuve para acompa??????�arla si que lo fue.
Desde hace unas semanas, para ser mas precisos, desde que vi la de La mujer de mis pesadillas no veia una buena pelicula, Pues Dame 10 razones o 10 items or less (nombre greengo) es una muy buena pelicula que recomiendo ampliamente, es muy tranquilizante, me ha dejado un muy buen sabor de boca, es de esas peliculas en las que no necesitas tener explosiones, ni super efectos especiales, super modelos (aunque Paz Vega no esta nada mal) para llamar la atencion del publico.
Y aunque es puro hablar no tiene puntos muertos lo que dice que es una muy buena historia muy bien dirigida , siempre estas viendo la pantalla.
Se las recomiendo, de mientras, vean el trailer:

Ingles:

Espa??????�ol (Espa??????�a)

Y creias que Microsoft Surface era la riata

markuz@islascruz.org (Marco Antonio Islas Cruz) — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 15:29:03 -0500

The Multi-Pointer X Server is a modification of the X server to support multiple mice and keyboards in X. It provides users with one cursor per device and one keyboard focus per keyboard. Each cursor can operate independently. MPX is the first multicursor windowing system and allows two-handed interaction with legacy applications, but also the creation of innovative applications and user interfaces.

Personalizar las aplicaciones con Metisse

markuz@islascruz.org (Marco Antonio Islas Cruz) — Thu, 24 May 2007 08:13:13 -0500

Me ha llegado un correo de los de mandriva y tiene un enlace al siguiente video, muy padre, muestra de como se pueden personalizar las aplicaiciones (aunque el programador no lo haya pensado asi).

Metisse -- Facades creation
Uploaded by mandriva

Video de Christine en atsion

markuz@islascruz.org (Marco Antonio Islas Cruz) — Sun, 18 Feb 2007 18:49:03 -0600

El buen Mauricio grab??????? unas partes de la platica de GStreamer que di con Gunnar, y entre ellos pues apareci??????? como ejemplo de uso Christine.

Estoy subiendo otro, donde se ve bien a christine en accion :-) pero esta conexion de infinitum no ayuda en mucho..
Por cierto... para quien preguntaba cuantas lineas componen a Christine: son 3439 segun "wc" sin contar los descriptores de interface creados con glade :-), ni los Makefile.am regados en los directorios.
Update: Un descripcion un poco mejor (y en atsion) de christine, hasta hoy termine de subirlo... les digo, Infinitum no ayuda de mucho..

Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing Us

markuz@islascruz.org (Marco Antonio Islas Cruz) — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 19:48:14 -0600

Muy buen video :-).

Gene "50 Cents" Simmons

markuz@islascruz.org (Marco Antonio Islas Cruz) — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 20:06:00 -0600

Todo aquiel que me conoce bien sabe que yo he sido fan de KISS desde que estaba en la secundaria, y que aunque su musica mas buena es en su mayoria setentera y mucho mas tranquila que la de otras bandas que tambien me laten (Pantera, System of a Down, Metallica y otras) me ponia y me pone de vez en cuando bien locotr???????n con canciones como God Of Thunder (me encanta en el sinf???????nico), 100,000 years, Let me go rock and roll (ver video abajo), y otras.
Obviamente, eso hace KISS, Gene Simmons, desde hace mucho tiempo le vi en la cara un gusto por el dinero que nadie mas puede tener, pero, pues esta bien, digo, hacen chidos sus conciertos y pues.. mis respetos, si que hace dinero el don ese.
Pero que no mame, ya se le fue la mierda a la cabeza, desde que vi La escuela de Rock de Gene Simmons que no se por que me recordo a una pelicula llamada "The school of rock" o algo asi con Jack Black. En fin, pas??????? el tiempo y sobreviv??????� a eso, hoy revisando mi correo de Yahoo me veo un post con un enlace al siguiente video:

Que en realidad, es descepcionante, lo unico que se me viene a la mente es: "Lo que hace la gente por dinero..."
Digame usted, con lo de la escuela del rock y este video, que queda el Gene Simmons de KISS ?.

Este va de regalo, nomas porque me gusta un chingo.

Mac, PC, Linux & BSD

markuz@islascruz.org (Marco Antonio Islas Cruz) — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 15:19:35 -0600

Jajaja, muy buenos videos que puso el buen Skore en su post, que culeros, Mac y PC odian a linux y mas a BSD, aunque BSD sea en sin la base de MacOS X

Desde que te perdi...

markuz@islascruz.org (Marco Antonio Islas Cruz) — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 15:06:09 -0600

Se estan enamorando todas de mi...

Mis comics favoritos

markuz@islascruz.org (Marco Antonio Islas Cruz) — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 21:59:56 -0600

Te gustan los simpson?, pues esto te va a encantar, cada capitulo de los Simpson tiene entradas diferentes, y al menos yo no he visto que se repita en alguno, por lo que por lo general identifico el capitulo durante la entrada, aunque como soy fan de los Simpsons pues.. me importa un cacahuate si ya pasaron el capitulo o no, simplemente los veo. Lastima que los vea tan tarde (En el FOX a las 12:30 de la noche), eso explica mis ojeras y mis pocas ganas de trabajar :-P.
Hay, aun recuerdo cuando tenia como 9 a??????�os y mi mama se enojaba si pona el Azteca 7 a las 8 de la noche, maldecia esas caricaturas, ahora le parecen hasta medio totas, y se desvela conmigo viendo South Park (Intro), Padre de Familia (Intro, Escena del concurso de vomitos) y American dad (de los creadores de Family Guy). Sip, eso pas???????, lo mismo con la muisica, hoy hasta escucha Rammstein.

Windows Vista did not steal ideas from Mac OS X!

markuz@islascruz.org (Marco Antonio Islas Cruz) — Sun, 17 Dec 2006 10:34:51 -0600

So. What do you think?

Do the evolution

markuz@islascruz.org (Marco Antonio Islas Cruz) — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 13:27:41 -0600

Woo..
I'm ahead, I'm a man
I'm the first mammal to wear pants, yeah
I'm at peace with my lust
I can kill 'cause in God I trust, yeah
It's evolution, baby
I'm at peace, I'm the man
Buying stocks on the day of the crash
On the loose, I'm a truck
All the rolling hills, I'll flatten 'em out, yeah
It's herd behavior, uh huh
It's evolution, baby
Admire me, admire my home
Admire my son, he's my clone
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
This land is mine, this land is free
I'll do what I want but irresponsibly
It's evolution, baby
I'm a thief, I'm a liar
There's my church, I sing in the choir:
(hallelujah, hallelujah)
Admire me, admire my home
Admire my son, admire my clones
'Cause we know, appetite for a nightly feast
Those ignorant Indians got nothin' on me
Nothin', why?
Because... it's evolution, baby!
I am ahead, I am advanced
I am the first mammal to make plans, yeah
I crawled the earth, but now I'm higher
2010, watch it go to fire
It's evolution, baby
It's evolution, baby
Let's do the evolution
Come on, come on, come on

Beto, Enrique y el Peje

markuz@islascruz.org (Marco Antonio Islas Cruz) — Sat, 25 Nov 2006 10:07:37 -0600

Ahi pa los que gustan de la politica, y del humor, y sobre todo, de echarle al peje

Videos

markuz@islascruz.org (Marco Antonio Islas Cruz) — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 17:41:31 -0600

Bueno, pues entre los poquitos videos que saque (en realidad este par los saco mi hermano) estos son los que mas me latieron, estan muy cortos, pero ve el lado amable, no gastaras el tronchon de banda para poder verlos >:-)

Kiwi!

markuz@islascruz.org (Marco Antonio Islas Cruz) — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 11:30:05 -0600