Comments on: bigbrother

By: ryan

ryan — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I've just discovered Erik Benson's Morale-O-Meter. It's similar to bigbrother in some ways, but different and better in many others. It's also much easier to try out. Give it a spin!

By: Turkeyphant

Turkeyphant — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Love the idea of this tool, but I'm having difficulties getting it to work. On Windows XP (sorry) and running Python 2.5.1 I get the following error message when attempting to analyse your sample log file:

turkeyphant@rowla bigbrother-0.5.1>
$ bigbrother.py away.log
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "bigbrother.py", line 60, in
import graph
File "graph.py", line 29, in
import gdchart
ImportError: No module named gdchart

Any ideas?

By: Ryan

Ryan — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

glad you're interested! the problem is that bigbrother uses PyGDChart, which is a thin wrapper around gdchart, a C library. i include a prebuilt gdchart binary in the tarball, but it's a linux shared library. you need a windows build.

luckily, the PyGDChart site includes a windows build. i'll give it a shot later today and see if it works.

By: Turkeyphant

Turkeyphant — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Thanks man. Let me know if installing PyGDChart will sort it for Windows…

By: Ryan

Ryan — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

yup, the windows build works, with python 2.3.5 (not 2.4 or 2.5). unzip it, put gdchart.pyd in the bigbrother directory, and you should be good to go.

By: Turkeyphant

Turkeyphant — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Great – that works perfectly. Cheers.

By: ryan

ryan — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

just noticed another app in the same vein: Life Log. from the site:

What were you doing ten years ago today? You would know if you used Life Log. Log your life, your work, or take meeting notes. It even works as shared clipboard across computers.

plus it runs on my project, app engine!