Creosote archive for Thu 22 of Sep, 2005

Using Psyco, the Python specializing compiler

ASPN features free access to valuable programming resources for Perl, Python, PHP, Tcl, and XSLT.

MayaVi is a free, easy to use scientific data visualizer. It is written in Python and uses the amazing Visualization Toolkit (VTK) for the graphics.

delicious.py allows you to access the web service of del.icio.us via it's API through python.

Python Enterprise Application Kit's new generic functions and predicative dispatch features enhance rapid app development

I wrote this code after being frustrated by several VB and C voice recognition programs. None of them allowed any significant user scripting; whereas a system written in Python is very easy to extend using Python's "exec" command.

When we were in Alexandria on Monday, we stopped by Olsson's to browse around. I ended up buying two CDs. One was a bargain-price $3 CD of Mozart's Requiem; it's a pretty good performance, though I might still prefer the...

I was mediocre today, having skipped last week's lesson due to work and having not practiced very much. So my playing was very bad, rough and clumsy. Jeff was content with my lower third-position etude, which isn't too surprising because...

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Dare's examples for XLINQ are interesting. They are certainly more streamlined than the usual C# and Java fare I see, but still a bit clunky compared to what I'm used to in Python. To be fair a lot of that is on the C# language, so I'd be interested in seeing what XLINK looks like from Python.NET or Boo. The following is my translation from Dare's fragments into corresponding Amara fragments (compatible with the Amara 1.2 branch). '1.

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Not using MT or don't want to run your own OpenID server? TypeKey is now an OpenID server. You can...

Firefox should open external links in the window with the most tabs.

CPS 3.3.6 has just been released. You'll find download links in the "Quick Download" box of http://www.cps-project.org. This release contains mainly bugfixes, and some speed improvements. It also bundles for the first time CPSSharedCalendar (successor to CPSCalendar) and CPSMailAccess (sucessor to CPSWebMail), two components heavily based on Five.

My experiences so far with Ubuntu on a Thinkpad T42P have been very positive. I now have a docking station, a nice USB mouse, WIFI working fine, everything working fine except.... I need to get PPP working with the internal modem. minicom cannot knock a

The best browser is now free of charge and free of advertisements. Go download it from Opera.com. If you are interested, read the reasons on making it free. In 2003, I liked Opera so much that I actually paid and bought licenses for Windows and Linux.

TurboGears certainly got going with a bang this past Saturday. We’re almost at the 4 day mark now, and the “20 Minute Wiki” screencast has been viewed more than 2,800 times. (Consuming 225GB of bandwidth!).

David Buck writes about an enticing upcoming meeting of the Ottawa Smalltalk User Group... Smalltalk and Smalltalk developers have led the way to the modern techniques and practices that [David] teaches in Simberon's courses... even now, the future of software development is being led by Smalltalk whether or not the rest of the world cares to notice.

I kind of like the unintended and prophetic pun in the tagline of Planet RDF: "it's triples all the way down". But I'd rather go back and work on my own model than poke fun at a naked king.

Having dabbled on the edge of AI for a number of years, I enjoy the technology as well as the philosophy that surrounds the subject. Jon Udell writes of the so-called Singularity... That's us: just goldfish to the post-human super-intelligences... True machine intelligence was what the advocates of strong AI wanted to hear about, not the amplification of human intelligence by networked computing.

I like this book Blaine refers to. It's been sitting on my shelf for a couple of years where I've picked it up and dusted off a few pages here and there. Recently I have been following it a bit in practicing *concurrent* programming as opposed to object programming per se. Concurrent processes can be seen as "active objects".

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I wanted a simple web based "download and run"-SQLite browser. So my choice was of course a PHP tool, first thing to look for is something like phpMyAdmin just for SQLite.There are two of them, with the same name "phpSQLiteAdmin":One by Yves GlodtAnother one by Richard Heyesand none of them works out of the box! So here is what I did to get number 2 (phpSQLiteAdmin by Richard Heyes) running. Continue reading "phpSqliteAdmin Installation"

Finally got the pictures downloaded off the camera (trick was to tell the new version of digikam to detect the camera all over again). Mostly it's shots from our trek through the wetlands out to the lake. There's a couple of nice shots here and there...

Until recently I’ve been using Python 2.3.x almost exclusively and I thought it was about time I get more familiar with what 2.4 series has to offer. I’ve skimmed the list of new features when point zero version came out and found some things that I like (e.g sets) and some that I disliked (e.g. decorators). So, this time I invested a bit more time to actually read and understand what was on offer and how these features came about.

My proposal to give a presentation at the Open Source Developer's Conference 2005 has been accepted. I'll be giving a thirty minute high level overview of PythonCard which will mainly be a hands on demonstration. The difference between this conference and others I have presented at is that I've got to write a paper for this one. The good news here is that because my presentation is going to be a demonstration there's no danger of me writing a document and then just standing up and reading it aloud.

«Python VISA bindings for GPIB, RS232, and USB instruments»

«0.5.2 Released...»

«TinyERP is an Enterprise Resource Management written entirely in python.»

«Tools for parsing and using INI-style files»

«SDXF (Stani's DXF) Python library can generate complex CAD drawings (DXF format) with all kinds of entities (such as 3DFace, Arc, Insert, Circle, Line, Mtext, Point, Polyline, Rectangle (can be filled), Solid, and Text). They can be structured with Layers, Blocks, Linetypes, Text styles, and Views. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: Blocks can now be inserted with rotation, and a typo in the demo function has been fixed.»

«Here's a way to give translators easy access to your sites' po files using ExternalEditor, so that they can open the po file in poEdit or another translation tool.»

«PySubMind is a note manager with organization based on tags. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: This release can list by priorities with configuration. list_note is now a list. There is a new translation schema to use Rosetta.»

«The PreludeDB Library provides an abstraction layer upon the type and format of the database used to store IDMEF alerts. It allows developers to use the Prelude IDMEF database easily and efficiently without worrying about SQL, and to access the database independently of the type/format of the database. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: Perl/Python bindings are more fault tolerant. Python binding exception handling has been fixed...»

«Neveredit aims to provide end-user module editing facilities for Bioware's Neverwinter Nights computer game.»

A few months ago in "Sane template-like output for Amara" I discussed ideas for making the Amara output API a little bit more competitive with full-blown templating systems such as XSLT, without adopting all the madness of template frameworks. I just checked in the simplest patch that does the trick. Here is an example from the previous article: Amara 1.0 code: person_elem = newdoc.xml_element( u'person', attributes={u'name': unicode(person.name)} ) newdoc.xml_append(person_elem) Proposed Amara 1.2 code: newdoc.xml_append_template("<person name='{person.name}'/>") What I actually checked into CVS today for Amara 1.2: newdoc.xml_append_fragment("<person name='%s'/>"%person.name) That has the advantage of leaning as much as possible on an existing Python concept (formatted strings). As the method name indicates, this is conceptually no longer a template, but rather a fragment of XML in text form.

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