This will mostly be interesting for my friends and family, who generally speak Dutch, so in contrary to my normal style with this blog I will now write in Dutch.
Vanavond gaat het gebeuren. Met de trein van 21.39u vanuit Arnhem vertrek ik naar Oostenrijk. Gisteren heeft iedereen nog even afscheid kunnen nemen en dan zullen de meeste van jullie mij enige tijd niet meer zien. Een aantal mensen gaven ook aan er graag over te lezen van mij, dus bij deze.
Ik ga naar Oostenrijk, naar Mayrhofen om precies te zijn, met de intentie om daar te gaan werken als skileraar. Ik ga daar werken voor Die Roten Profis, die daar een onderkomen voor mij hebben geregeld. Maandag begin ik met een cursus waarin ik volgens echte Oostenrijkse tradities klaargestoomd zal worden voor het skileraarschap. Een cursus waarna ik, in geval van succesvolle afronding, een officiële Anwärter ben.
Van de eerder genoemde gelegenheid tot afscheid nemen is volop gebruik gemaakt en er was vannacht dan ook een gezellig feestje gaande op de Brand. Voor zover ik het gehoord heb heeft iedereen het goed naar z’n zin gehad. Dat zal dan ook wel mede gelegen hebben aan de Duitse krakers en andere wijde variëteiten van muziek die op een genereus niveau uit de speakers schalde, alsmede ook de alcoholische versnaperingen die gretig aftrek vonden. Niettemin echter waren het ook de mensen die zeker veel bijgedragen hebben aan de gezelligheid!
Rest mij nog jullie te trakteren op een mooi staaltje werk uit de marketingmachine van het wintersportoord waar ik zal vertoeven:
Voor de mensen die willen reageren en het niet kunnen vinden, even op de titel van dit bericht kliken!
The latest version of Last.fm Real Time Stats is 2.0.2 as of now.
I’m leaving for Austria for four months, or so, at the end of this week, during which I’ll probably spend little time on this project. That and the fact that I’ve greatly improved things and added several new features are the reasons for this release. Moreover I’m planning on some new features that will require some database changes. It’ll close the gap between RTS and Last.fm In Time. It’ll be massive. Oh I love it all ready!
Well that’s for the future, this is now and there are some changes in this version:
You can now turn off logging and gzip compression in config.php
htmlentities() in statprediction.php
Bug: sorting between image and statprediction differs
Bug: Recent tracks seem not to update when a script is called.
Use XML data source.
Fix inefficiency with disconnecting before and reconnecting after recenttracker.php is called.
Fix low compression rates on logs.
Implement page counter
Bug: Very long artist or tracks names failed to insert. Cut off at 255.
Make this document HTML
Position are now the same for artists and track with the same playcount for image.php and statprediction.php
With compression for logging fixed you can now use it to compress your logs over 20×!
You can now safely use HTML in tags. Don’t know why you’d want that, but hey, it’s exploitable!
We now use strictly XML source files. This is good when you have comma’s in your tags. Because of this I also found a bug with extremely long tags, they’re now cut off at 255 characters.
I’ve also implemented a view counter for image.php and statsprediction.php so you can now easily see how often stats were displayed for a certain user in the all new management.php. This document shows you some statistics about the statistics, but is still far from finished!
That’s about all the interesting new stuff in here. Enjoy it and any comment is welcome!
I’m shutting down RTS 1.
You might’ve not even known there are two systems, because they output practically the same. Only, RTS 2 has a lot of improvements serverside. It’s much lighter and easier for me to run. I’ve ran both versions alongside for a couple of months so I could develop RTS 2 while all the users were on 1. RTS 2 runs on http://musicmapper.bit-byters.net/rts/ I’ve just added /rts/ to the end. This is to distinguish it from other things like Last.fm in Time. So to change all your images just add /rts/ to it as well and change last.fm.php into image.php. I’ve changed that since it’s more descriptive.
Last weekend I was at I Love Techno and it was absolutely great!
We were amongst the very first in line as you can see in the picture above and when we got in, there was nobody but some staff still doing the final preps. We got ourself some drinks after the bars opened and went to the Blue area:
2000 And One was playing. He did a real good job in getting the party started. We had a lot fun of while all the people came in. Then Trentemøller came on. They played a very nice show, all though I didn’t enjoy it quiet as much as I did on Lowlands earlier this year.
Then we took a little break to eat a little and saw the last half of the Simian Mobile Disco show. It was really awesome. I’d know their album, but with added enthusiasm of the crowd it was even better. But we came to see Dr. Lektroluv. I’d all ready seen him almost a year ago in Doornroosje (Nijmegen, NL) and thought he was really great. And now again. I really enjoyed his show. This time it had a little less of a underground atmosphere, but that was to be expected with 5000 compared to a couple of hundred people at his previous set.
A little exhausted we took a break in the switch room in the middle of the venue before going to Ellen Alien. I knew from her albums she liked to stretch it pretty long and wouldn’t have great shifts in her sets, but I couldn’t have anticipated that this was because she can’t DJ! I think it was only her third track when she absolutely completely mismatched the beats and then let it play for like half a minute! Everybody boe-ing at her with just cause. It just hit me right in the face as I was dancing and enjoying and it would turn out not to be her only mistake in the course of her set. I left, disappointed.
We took a little break to regain our energy and then went to Justice. We can in halfway through the show. (I’d allready seen Justice at Lowlands and the other guys wanted to see Felix Da Housecat afterwards.) Justice was absolutely rocking the place. Even in the back it was amazing. I really enjoyed it. The harsh electro with clear rock influences. The pounding beat with a sweeping underline of a melodic very danceable rhythm. It’s a lot of Daft Punk but in a clearly 2007 individual implementation. Sounds kinda vague, but where Daft Punk first started to lean back from the all-electronic to electric guitar sound, Justice has really evolved in this aspect and as a bonus added some extra influences.
Well, see for your self:
After Justice came Felix Da Housecat. He played fairly good, but we were all very exhausted. The set was really long and deep. Normally good for this late in the night, but after half an hour we left. But I do want to show you the great lighting and VJ-ing. Watch how lighting and sound match. At the break and at the climax:
Yesterday I made a little video collage with the footage shot this summer during our vacation in the Czech Republic. We only had digital camera’s with us, so there was little footage and it was all a lot alike, but it in the end it didn’t turn out all that bad.
Although I’m very busy lately, I’ve been putting some work into Real Time Stats. I’ve resolved some outstanding ToDo’s and now it’s been almost a month since the initial release, here it is: Last.fm Real Time Stats 2.0.1
Changelog:
fixed bug with color variable names
Improve Documentation massively! (actually mostly with 2.0.0…)
A footer include for e.g. Google analytics.
Parsetimes are now rounded
Make scripts week-parameter accept absolute week#. >1 is absolute, format WWYY, 2 digit year, 2 digit week.
That last option makes new value’s possible for the week selection. First you could only select weeks relative (e.g. 0=current, -1 last and 1 next week). Now you can do either that our enter an absolute number in the format WWYY, so 4107 would make week 41 in 2007.
What is there to be done:
Install script.
Management page.
Use XML data source instead of plain text.
Make the statprediction.php’ HTML IE compatible and HTML 4.01 strict compliant.
Fix low compression rates on logs. (they actually have negative compression)
Make a decent index.php (this is just a copy of a page from my web-site)
Use Mod_Rewrite
Use getval() function where possible
Fix inefficiency with disconnecting before and reconnecting after recenttracker.php is called
I’ve put some effort into Last.fm Real-time Stats this week. The Database is now fully relational. Some more bugs crushed and stuff optimized. I wanted to release it this night, yesterday, the day before yesterday and before that, but all I did was more tweaking. Now I’ve decided that I just packed the last change into the release archive.
Download it now and generate you own real-time stats. Because, admit, you don’t like waiting until Monday to see what you listened last week! You might need some experience with scripts, this is just the first release, but I’ve put quite some effort into the readme, so I hope you’ll be fine. Server requirements are:
PHP 5, 4 might also work, didn’t test it. (let me know if you do!)
With GD-PNG and zlib (change the log functions in the bottom of the functions file if you don’t have zlib)
MySQL, tested on 5.0.38
Cron Tabs (see FAQ)
Apache is recommended, because I use .htaccess to secure the /inc/ dir in a case of PHP parser failure.
A database management utility, such as PhpMyAdmin simplifies things a lot
If anyone is going to host the script and is willing to host the script for other people as well you can leave a message in the comments.
And why it’s 2.0.0? That’s because this one is fundamentally better than the previous version.
This Friday I was a the Vive La Fête concert in the Effenaar (Eindhoven NL). I went with a couple of friends and we all had had a <insert many superlatives> concert. Vive La Fête are absolutely great. I thought so before, but after seeing them live I feel this way even stronger. If you don’t all ready know them, go listen to them today!
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