Steps forward with Sash and turntable botting

by ramstush on Thu 18 July 2013 // Posted in legacy // under

Yesterday was a slow day of research and development. As usual, it took most of the day to finally get to the interesting bits. SO, lets start where the fun begins. First, a small revelation regarding sugar activities. If you're programming a prospective activity, write the program first in python (so that it works on you're PC, box, etc..). AFTER your activity works just the way you want it to work on your machine, port it over to sugar by importing your sugar library and placing all of your code within a class that is defined within your activity.info file. I made a sugar activity quick start that has an extremely detailed tutorial of how to make a sugar activity. You can find that repository SAQS github repository. Second on the list of cool happenings is the continuation of a python based Turntable.fm bot that helps the owner and mods of a turntable.fm room control tracks, queues, awesomes, etc.. If you don't know what Turntable is, just search Turntable.fm and you should be able to find it! Its a free online social music player that encourages social interaction through community music collaboration. Check it out!!! Currently, Decause and I are going to jump into bot land and see if we can make a feature-full tt_bot to play around with! Keep tuned for the github release!