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I’m happy to announce that the BeerReg2 software has been tested to work and I have weeded out the bugs I could find, so I have tagged a v0.8 release in the SVN tree.

This first version has been kept simple, turning on and off 3 relays when the temperature sensor reaches a minimum and maximum temperature (configurable by 4 push buttons). The LCD displays a timer with days, hours, minutes and seconds, current temperature and minumum/maximum settings.

Visit the project page to view the source.

Just an announcement really. Apart from a quick sketch and a new project page, there’s no real information yet.

Due to the cold temperature, we are making a temperature controlled cupboard to house the fermenting beer. This will keep the yeast happy. If the yeast is happy it will make good beer, which keeps me happy.

This release adds a simple event log for the log viewer, and tools for user management (add, modify, delete), as well as cleaning up some of the HTML.

I have held back adding features for annotating, bookmarking and sign-off until the next version.

Visit the project page or SVN repository.

It’s only been one day since I published the site on the web, but today I added some more of the features on the TODO list, so the script is more useful for searching logs.

For now I’m calling it Logview1… it’s a viewer, that views logs, and it’s number one!

Visit the project page, where I’ve posted the source and some screenshots.

As an exercise in learning Python, I decided a good simple practical application would be a tool to monitor system logs of various systems at once logging to an SQL database. This has already been quite helpful as I debug my OpenLDAP migration and taking a closer look at Solaris.

Python is a deliciously simple language and I had no trouble learning very quickly to rapidly develop a simple database driven application. My first app was quite useful to me, and I intend to add more features. A few years ago a friend and myself built a similar application in PHP but it has been lost over time.

I’ve released it on this website with its own project page, and posted an early alpha release if anyone cares to take a look.