Sorry about the delay in this blogpost. I’ve been playing around with the streaming system since the last couple of days. Trying to figure out how components connect. My speed is a bit slow at the moment because I am new to Django.
I did add a Report Bug button on the streaming system. It’s temporarily placed in the footer. Next I am trying to direct it to a new page where I fetch and display all relevant information. This is just for testing that I am going the right way. I will add all this information to a database once I make sure that I fetch all the right and necessary data.

Yippee! I installed streaming system on my Ubuntu VM!
A few observations:

• I need not have installed everything listed in requirements.txt on my own, ‘make serve’ does all that on its own. LessonLearnt
• I got a couple of ImportErrors in ‘from …. import data’ type of statements. I had to comment them out, which made it work fine.
• You need to register a fake flumotion encoder AFTER the server is running
• Comment out “localips” in config.json and config.private.json, both to get the server to run properly. You may need to restart your server after doing this step.

Next step:

• Add a ‘Report Bug’ button on the frontend.

I had Ubuntu on VirtualBox already on my Windows 7, but somehow, never really contemplated using it for any serious work. This was mainly because my perception of Virtual machines went like:

• They are slow
• They are really slow
• They might not connect to the internet all that well

Turns out I was wrong on counts 2 and 3, but they are a bit slow, for sure. I also faced some issues with flickering icons etc, probably due to low RAM etc.

So today I spent my day upgrading the 10.04 on my VM to 12.04 and expanding the RAM and disc space in hope that it will improve the speed.
Phew.

Tasks for tomorrow:

• Install Git.
• Learn some Ubuntu commands and howtos.
• SSH into rackspace VM from this VM.
• Eat some momos.

Okay, so, college assignments and lab files aside, today I tried to run TimVideos streaming-system module on my laptop. It took me a while to realize that I was working with a more recent version of Django than the one the streaming-system works with.
Tasks for tomorrow:

• Install Django version 1.5
• Run the streaming-system module

What I did today:

• Worked on a college project I am supposed to hand in by this Friday. Trying to get it out of the way before GSoC officially starts.
• Played on the VM a bit more. Referred several online resources for Linux commands.
• Slept way more than I should have. :/

• I spent the better part of my day trying to get Putty to let me SSH into the Rackspace VM Sheila setup for me. Turns out I needn’t have gone through all that trouble because my Git Bash did the same much more efficiently. Sheila figured that out for me.
• Played on the VM a bit, trying to get a hang on Linux better since I haven’t worked much on it.

The interface is incredibly simplistic and well designed. Focuses only on the writing part, everything else faded in the background. I was looking for a new blogging platform for my Google Summer of Code journey and my first choice was Ghost but it turned out to not be free, which made me look for other platforms. But I couldn’t have hoped for something better than svbtle. It’s nice and simple. Looking forward to blogging and codingmy summer away!