Archive for August, 2004
creosote: it’s wafer thin
I’ve set up a new resource/blog on the site called creosote which presents a daily aggregated view of python-related postings. At the moment I’m culling python tagged links from del.icio.us, items from Planet Python, and entries from the Daily Python-URL. The page and its syndication feed are updated twice a day; I may [...]
Iterate by Diamond Sky
I’m currently checking out Iterate, which is a .NET application that lets you manage a software project according to Extreme Programming principles. It looks good so far; 30 day trial.
the .ac stands for ass clowns
My breakup letter with an unscrupulous sms service:
I’m really pissed off that you fucktards automatically emailed every person in my hotmail address book without letting me know you were going to do it. That is totally unbelievable, and you can bet I’ll be blogging about it.
an IronPython mailing list
Happy Happy Joy Joy.
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New combined feed
I was about to write a script to cut my del.icio.us bookmarks in with my atom feed for the site when I discovered that FeedBurner now lets you do exactly that. If you want to use the new feed, it’s at http://feeds.feedburner.com/codestream. The old feed won’t be going anywhere though.
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Compiling executables with IronPython
From the Python.NET mailing list, use the ‘-O’ switch:
IronPythonConsole -O MyPythonFile.py
Is there an email list for IronPython? If not there should be.
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Wikipedia saves
At the moment I’m working on some stuff involving MP3 files, and I’ve found lately that when google doesn’t come up with the goods, (like the MP3 File Format Specification) I can usually find what I’m looking for in Wikipedia.
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TidyLib Python wrapper
uTidylib is a quick and easy Python wrapper for HTML Tidy. Running pages through uTidylib before trying to parse them means fewer (or no) parser errors. Initially I was under the impression that you needed to download TidyLib separately, but the uTidylib package has everything you need.
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