Creosote archive for Wed 31 of Aug, 2005

Watch for xmpppy Google Talk support

发布的书籍中的源代码搜索，包括主流的大多数编程语言和教本

The babelcast (RSS feed) is perhaps the first algorithmic, computer-generated podcast. Using generative algorithms available in the open source, cross platform, Python-programmed athenaCL system to control Csound,

Automatically generate and run a testsuite

post to pastebin from cli

Getting inside the language...

"Hidden documents" :)

python code examples from the author of O'Reilly's Python Standard Library

"In a single sentence, arnie is: a tremendously simple system for performing incremental backups to remote untrusted hosts, with support for encrypted files on the remote host"

Fedora Build System tool

“I laugh the laugh of a third world designer.” A gem from James Governor.

(quick link)

A graph showing the inverse relationship between global temperature and pirates. Actually I think there may be as many pirates as ever. So this *could* very well turn out to be bad science.

In response to XML data bindings, static languages, dynamic languages Bob Hutchison posted some thoughts. As I used Amara as the kernel of my demonstrations, Bob used his project xampl as the kernel of his. He introduces xampl in another entry which was inspired by my own article on EaseXML. Xampl is a an XML data binding.

Shademan just called, he's running late, so I'll have to get down to Young and Bloor on my own, which means I have to leave a bit earlier. Oh well, at least I won't need to type while I'm down there :) .

This post is a bit all-over-the-place, sorry. I’ve stumbled across Code Snippets at least 5 times in the past couple of days. It’s basically del.icio.us for small pieces of code.

Making Peace With Autism is my wife Susan's book about our family and how we have dealt with autism. It is available today from Amazon, or any bookstore. Please consider buying a copy.

There has been quite a bit of discussion triggered by my article "Python and XML: Should Python and XML Coexist?". This sort of thing always surprises me more than it should. I like to post code-heavy articles and leave the philosophy to the occasional entry, or to this very Weblog, but it seems that people respond more vocally to philosophy than to code.

I created Nat's World, my immersive photo exploration game, the hard way: each picture is added into the environment by adding a line to a large Python file. It worked for me because I'm a geek, and it was quick to get the whole thing going. But I've idly toyed with the idea of building a GUI application to create similar environments. I think it would be fun to write, but I've never seriously started on it. (more..)

"Our nation has given so much to the Iraqi people, and what are they giving us in return?"

Cool - Telecom NZ, the telecomms monopoly in NZ is planning on moving every phone line in the company over to an IP platform. Comment

Sunday afternoon we trucked over to the other side of the water to hang out with Maryam and Robert Scoble. (Good thing that I'm a Spouse Of a Friend Of Maryam). As Robert mentioned, there were a bunch of geek males standing around and talking about various stuff. I can't remember the precise twists and turns of the conversation, but at one point we were discussing pleasing one's user's versus trying to block one's competitors.

I’m happy to announce that version 0.8 of sparta.py, a simple API for RDF, is now available. As always, feedback and suggestions are appreciated. This revision requires rdflib 2.2.1, as the APIs sparta relied upon have changed. It also adds a new method on the factory, addAlias, that lets you bypass the prefix_localname convention for URIs that don’t map well to python tokens. See spartaTest.py for an example of its use.

"Managed to get the image-handling code starting to look like a reasonable approach to the problem. Still quite a few functions un-wrapped, but in most cases the effort to wrap is now down to two lines of code."

"A hypercode program loader and runner"

"RDF library containing an RDF triple store and RDF/XML parser/serializer"

"An application to produce documentation for XSLT files in XHTML format, similar to what javadoc does for Java files."

"A CSS Cascading Style Sheets library for Python"

"An OpenGL 2D graphics toolkit."

"Python Internet Programming Library"

"Well, the AU Twisted Sprint was fun. I worked on documentation most of the time, and there was some good work on Twisted VFS (it was moved into the main Twisted repository) and Nufox. Unfortunately I didn't get to see much of Sydney, except for watching Luna Park go wizzing past as I was training above it. Oh well, some other time."

"PyEphem provides scientific-grade astronomical computations for the Python programming language."

"Turns out that all of the GLU and GLUT constants were mis-declared. I used the same script to rip them out of the header as I did for GL... but in gl.h the constants are declared in hexidecimal. In the other two they are declared in decimal, and the script got a little carried away with reformatting... sigh."

"Just finished the surgery to make OpenGL-ctypes do error-checking for all functions that allow error checking (i.e. those outside of glBegin/glEnd)."

"For a project I'm working on, I didn't want to introduce a dependency on py.test. I also didn't want to manually write test suites myself. So, here's Testido: a simple unittest extension that easily hooks in to however you're testing now and eliminates the need to manually write suites."

In a recent Wired article regarding One Login, reference is made to a new social style network called GoingOn. The article spends most of its time focusing on one site that hopes to aggregate functionality that currently is split between Blogger, Flickr, Friendster, and Bloglines (for the most part). However, the thing it misses is what I previously discussed regarding the lack of a working distributed identity system. After looking around more, I’m happy to say there are indeed working identity systems out there.

Got the new video card for Delcina's computer. Installed it and finally logged onto the machine. Thing was in rather rough shape; Norton AV with the subscription long-since expired, half a dozen questionable IE plugins, something that was taking over...

Someone once said, "Follow the money." The aphorism is broadly applicable. Note that the opinions expressed here are my own. In the interest of full disclosure, I currently am paid by Intel Corporation to do something akin to real work and I own Intel stock, but my work for them has nothing to do with Trusted Computing, nor do I have any privileged insights into that technology. So here's my thought: I find irony that the Internet continues to be victimized through its own orifices, especially those on the common endpoints, while an appropriate solution, Trusted Computing, is getting a bad rap because some media companies want to use it to prop up their derelict business model (see Digital Rights Management (DRM)). The digital rights problem seems to me to be a social problem in the market, not a technology problem. I think by associating Trusted Computing too closely with DRM.

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