Creosote archive for Sun 18 of Sep, 2005

Python DGame Engine

meta-class wrapper around method invocations

Proposal #1 came in today; yay! And here I was thinking everyone was going to procrastinate until the October 31st deadline......

中文版的Python教程

bidirectional IMAP to Maildir sync, in python

The first PyWeek Game Programming Challenge is now finished, and the results are in . I consider it a success, and I'll be running it again. I'll be making some small changes to the challenge format (mostly to do with the theme selection) and I'll d...

I/O Brush is a freaky art/technology project from the MIT Media Lab. Point the big brush at a real world object, and it picks up the appearance of the object. Use the brush on its canvas, and it paints like the object looked. It even captures the movement of the source object.

Everybody know Ruby on Rails right now. There is a lot of post all over the web, showing us the new latest new web programming style. This is a little funny because in a past life (4 years ago), I worked on something quite similar for Zope, name ZModeling.

Rather than reinventing everything or trying to clone some other framework, TurboGears takes advantage of the great tools that are already available! The tools: MochiKit is a clean and powerful JavaScript library. Kid is a designer- and programmer-friendly template system… written by lesscode’s fearless leader. CherryPy SQLObject

Kevin Dangoor announces the TurboGears web megaframework. He calls it a megaframework not because it is enormous, but because it is a collection of existing pieces which have been integrated, kitted, and documented together into a larger framework. The pieces are: (more..)

Last month, I introuced Testido, a unittest extension that removes the need to write TestSuites by hand and simplifies some testing. To be in line with TurboGears, for which Testido was originally created, the package has been renamed TestGears. Here are the changes between Testido 0.1 and TestGears 0.2: unittest.TestCase instances are collected regardless of whether their names begin with “test”. (Thanks to Robert Brewer for the report.) Now calls setupmodule(module) and teardownmodule(module) as in py.test.

A significant problem in the trenches for Web Services isn’t the ability to play nice or not with existing Internet protocols, or its complicated type system, or Object/XML impedence. It’s optionality. When you get down to it, too much in Web Services is optional.

TurboGears brings together four major pieces to create an easy to install, easy to use web megaframework. It covers everything from front end (MochiKit JavaScript for the browser, Kid for templates in Python) to the controllers (CherryPy) to the back end (SQLObject). The TurboGears project is focused on providing documentation and integration with these tools without losing touch with the communities that already exist around those tools. TurboGears is easy to use for a wide range of web applications. To get a quick idea of what TurboGears is like, take a look at the 20 Minute Wiki tutorial and screencast. The total screencast with brief intro and conclusion did take a little over 23 minutes, but it’s close to 20 minutes A big thanks to Remi Delon, Ian Bicking, Bob Ippolito, Ryan Tomayko, Phillip Eby and the many other contributors who have provided all of these great tools.

We survived the TV crew from Weekend Today. Actually, it was pretty easy and a lot of fun. We had four people total (camera guy, sound guy, segment producer, publicist), but they were very nice and tried hard not to intrude too much. They were around for six or seven hours. (more..)

Got into a mental exhaustion state last night. Decided to go out to Starbucks with Shane instead of pushing at the code. As has become normal for him, he wanted to play poker.

«Hierarchical datasets for Python»

«Python Programmatic Web Browser»

«To help you -- yes, you -- publicize PyCon, we now have a promotional flyer, available from the PyCon 2006 page as a PDF file.»

«Vertigo is a system for managing one or more servers. It allows administrators to manage virtual hosts on their servers without having to manually edit configuration files. Moreover, it allows users of these virtual hosts to manage their email addresses and aliases, as well as giving them a way to access their backups.»

«Cedar Backup is a Python package that supports backups of files on local and remote hosts to CD-R or CD-RW media over a secure network connection. Cedar Backup also includes extensions that understand how to back up MySQL databases and Subversion repositories, and it can be easily extended to support other data sources, as well.»

«BlindMail is Web mail for the visually-impaired. The back-end is composed of Python scripts that fetch and send mail using your Web mail account. The front-end uses voice-to-text and text-to-voice. (BlindMail replaces the send_yahoo and pop_yahoo projects.)»

«QA Assistant is a Gnome-Python application that assists a reviewer in performing quality assurance.»

«PyTone is a music jukebox written in Python with a curses-based GUI. While providing advanced features like crossfading and multiple players, special emphasis is put on ease of use, making PyTone an ideal jukebox system for use at parties.»

«... But we're creating an alternate hierarchy for our systems, and I've started thinking this should include multi-version software installation (things installed through a packaging system will still go wherever the packager wants them to go). Eggs don't map terribly well to most packaging systems, as packaging systems don't support multiple versions and "active" versions of software well ...»

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&laquo;Well, for some time I had pondered what it would take fo provide SPARQL support in 4Suite RDF. I fell upon sparql-p , earlier and noticed it was essentially a SPARQL query processor w/out a parser to drive it...&raquo;

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