Just hacked together a small Python script to automatically update Chromium on my Mac to the latest SVN revision. I wrote this around 2am, so don’t expect bells and whistles. You can download it here:

The script is public domain, meant to be run interactively and provided without any warranties or batteries. It may or may not do bad things to your house and your cat, but mostly it just updates Chromium.

Been looking into GUI options for nagify lately. Thought I’d give Cocoa via PyObjC a try. Learned that using PyObjC is at least just as hard as learning Objective-C from scratch. Which I can’t because of the infamous once-you-know-python-you-don’t-want-anything-else-anymore syndrome. Also, there are memory issues and I ran into some obscure failure that I can’t even recall anymore.

So, after a quick look at the even more arcane options, I’m back with PyQt4. Took me a while to figure layouting in Qt Designer out, just to notice that I still can’t build a working distribution with py2app. I’m really looking forward to when everything will be 64bit and we don’t have this multilib/universal pile of crap anymore. Yuck.

My total whackjob of a solution right now is to mutilate a PyObjC-Cocoa Xcode template into running a Qt4 app. It’s not pretty and will probably break sometime in the future, but right now I just want to get some .app out there. Qt also gives me platform independence, which I like.

I’m currently working on having nagify save Nagios data into a local sqlite database so I can generate stats from it later. Those stats will then be used in a fullscreen view mode designed for large displays. At least that’s the plan.

Want to watch your tables grow?

I just wrote a munin plugin that graphs the number of rows in your MySQL databases. If you haven’t heard of Munin yet, check it out – it’s pretty awesome.