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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.

Sorry, I can’t stand it anymore. Can some body tell me how the f*** I am supposed to save my files OR exit if that damn software is “unstable”?!? And come oooon!! Don’t call it “unstable”! It’s dead and buried!! It’s deader than a zombie deadlock in a George Romero office suite!

Concentration
Originally uploaded by Ino*.

Importing data from web sites is a pain in the… armpit.
The Internet evolves so fast, websites are updated very often, HTML is a mess and I’m still looking for a date with Milla Jovovich.

Tellico, a cool whateveryouwant manager with a nice IMDb movie import routine. But it’s hard coded.

IMDb changes its pages once a month (ok, maybe not so often) and people have to wait for the Tellico developers to update the C++ code and build a new release. Then they have to download it and install it again, hoping IMDb didn’t change again in the meantime.

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movida stage 2 is up!

It took me some time to rewrite the website and I know it doesn’t look all that awesome, but hey.. I’m not an artist!!
Too sad sf.net servers use php4 and apache 1.3. I had to change a few things to make the new site work. The site language (currently either Italian or English) cannot be changed as the apache 1.3 mod_negotiation doesn’t support the prefer_language environment variable. You will have to stuck with the language set in your web browser.

Now I hope there ain’t too much typing errors *___*

PS: The source code section contains some nice tarballs with the latest source code from the SVN.

Ratts, holiday is over.

I have spent quite some time to clean up the source code and the new website for Movida. As a result, the IMDb import plugin is completely broken and has thus disappeared from the SVN. Most of the changes are in the movie editing dialog, so stand by to see the new website in a couple of days or checkout the SVN and hope the code builds (Qt 4.3 required!).

Here is a world wide preview of the screenshot that will appear on the home page of the movida:stage2 website