IRIS – The Interchangeable Radio Ingest System
Well, wow. After nearly forgetting to actually submit it and only writing the entry a few hours before the deadline, it turns out that the system I made while at Insanity Radio 1287AM has been nominated for the Best Technical Achievement award at the Student Radio Awards. So, I figured it would be worth actually [...]
Django – a flying visit
So rather jokingly the other day I asked where the London Hackspace jobs board was, and 20 minutes later I’d decided to make it. I needed a little project as a break from the main commercial app I’m working on, which for the last week has involved staring at some rather involved postfix/mailer code. As [...]
Time-series data in Redis
For Insanity, I’ve been working on some of the support services that are built into the website that provide our staff with information from ancillary services and tools and bring it into a clear and useful format for decision making and monitoring. Latest on the agenda has been listener figures from our Icecast streaming servers. [...]