Creosote archive for Fri 24 of Jun, 2005

Python sound toolikit

Haven't written in a while despite constant urges... Let's just say life got busy in more ways than I can appreciate. I do have time to share a nice link, though: Lambda the Ultimate has a really nice thread (most meat is in the comments) on reading difficult papers.

python written in java, it just popped up as a dependancy and I'm still thinking of its utility

In case you aren't in the web design field, or have been living under a rock, there's this implementation technique called Ajax, an acronym for Asynchronous Javascript And Xml. Google Maps is its best-known showcase, providing a great fluid experience that does all sorts of things that sites like Mapquest and MSN Maps can't do (dragging, resizing, etc). (more..)

an OpenGL 3D graphics engine written on top of pygame, python

A friend (you may know Nosh) put together a Google Maps hack: Iraq War Casualties Map. It plots Iraq war casualties on a map of the US, showing their hometown and other information. I find it sobering.

Before you say yes, of course, listen to what I want. Lately I am doing a lot of Python programming, using WingIDE (I guess people who read this blog are already bored by me mentioning Python). And now that I am trying to write a little dashboard widget which is nothing more than HTML, JS and CSS (btw Apple also brought up the cool <canvas> element for their dashboard clock) I realize what I am missing. The WingIDE has a feature that I call dive into. It let's you dive into the function/variable/class/etc. that your cursor is on.

I write a lot of XSLT for a variety of reasons, but somehow the "key" function has always baffled me. Every time I need to use it, I scour Google, and re-read my own XSLT code, trying to find examples that will help me, once again, understand how it works. (more..)

The folks who make the Firebird database only package up the &#8220;classic&#8221; server for the Mac. This is a process-based server and is more resource intensive than the multithreaded SuperServer. David Pugh has written up instructions for building a Firebird SuperServer on Mac OS X. I have a couple of additions for people using Tiger.

Building on the Prototype JavaScript library, we now see the script.aculo.us library which provides easy to use effects and drag-and-drop features. And, it&#8217;s nicely documented to boot!

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Joseph pointed out a problem where IE 6 won't display a cached page when it gets a 304 from the conditionalhttp plugin. (The issue is at the bottom of the email.) I did some poking around and discovered on Wednesday that this happens on his blog as well as on my blog with IE 6 on Windows XP. On Thursday, I was no longer able to reproduce the problem on my site, but Joseph's was still broken.

[via Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life ]: The fun with Greasemonkey has only begun. Dare reports on changes to Gmail that broke Stephen O'Grady's Greasemonkey scripts. Dare's response is: I find this hilarious.

"The highly abstract quality of computers makes it easy to introduce mathematics into the study of their theory-and has led some to the erroneous conclusion that, as a computer science emerges, it will necessarily be a mathematical rather than an empiric

Mum is looking to do a spot of Instant Messaging with her Amida Buddhism chums. (My, look at all those blogs! All down to Mum's example.) I've been looking at IRC recently, and it's really nice for techies. I've been using Bersirc as a client and Freenode as a server, and it's dead good.

Well, we made it to Memphis - and an adventure it has certainly been. We closed on the house last Friday afternoon, but the movers were rather late getting there - about 7 hours late. So, it was one of the most surreal moments of my life to see them loading the truck at 10:30 pm last Friday night by flashlight.

Mike Foord explains how the new version of his rest2web website templating system makes it easier to multiple translations of a site.

Mike Foord has broken out the 'textmacros' module from the Firedrop project. It provides an easy way of extending docutils.

Fredrik Lundh marks PIL's tenth birthday.

Zope 2.8 was quietly released recently. Paul Everitt explains the serious long-term benefits of ZODB's support for multi-version concurrency control and the integration of Zope 3 technology through Five.

Microsoft have released version 0.7.6 of IronPython, a Python implementation for the .NET platform.

Ted Leung reports that OSAF is starting a group blog for all their projects, including the Chandler PIM, the Cosmo sharing/calendaring server, and the Scooby calendaring web application.

Uche Ogbuji laments the apparent lack of i18n guidelines for Python programmers. He asks whether there are resources that he doesn't know about.

Prodded by discussion on the CherryPy list, Uche Ogbuji has implemented a 4Suite XSLT extension for internationalization using Python's gettext facilities for the underlying support. He explains how it works.

The SchoolTool development team have released version 1.1.1 of schoolbell, a standalone or Zope 3 calendaring server.

Rob Page has announced that Zope Corporation has begun the process of creating a Zope Foundation, which will provide a mechanism for managing the various Zope projects in a vendor-neutral way. It is planned to launch the Foundation before the end of October 2005.

Peter Bengtsson explains the usefulness of the '\b' special character in regular expressions.

Bob Ippolito discusses the little-known ability of the 'iter' function to take a sentinel value.

Once again, the Congress is trying to amend the constitution. This time, it's to ban desecration of the flag. The amendment would read "The Congress shall have power to prohibit the physical desecration of the flag of the United States." It is generally meant to prevent flag burning. This is so dumb. (more..)

[via O'Reilly Radar ]: Nat Torkington posted a great set of notes on Linda Stone's talk at SuperNova. A while back I was fortunate enough to spend some time talking with Linda about the ideas in Nat's notes. If you are interested in attention, you really need to look over the notes.

How many states are there in the United States? 50, right? Yet many people seem to think it's 52. Even the government gets this wrong. ...

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