Archives week 40 of 2008

Spent much of the afternoon working on PyOpenGL.  Spent some quality time with kcachegrind and got something like a 1% speed up on a (rather dumb) benchmark I've been using (dumb because it does everything wrong, mostly).  In doing so I cut down on the amount of code in the "wrapper" module noticeably, which was ...

Working on PyOpenGL today.  Few little fixes, a few wrapper operations to make things more Pythonic.  Nothing huge.  At some point, though, I discovered that pkg_resources was complaining that it couldn't find the PyOpenGL distribution (I eliminated pkg_resources from PyOpenGL, but OpenGLContext is, for now, using it).  Okay, so run setuptools and register PyOpenGL...

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At my one client we use the Ext javascript library, which is somewhat of an all-singing-all-dancing javascript library with dozens of compound widgets, particularly these huge, heavily abstracted searchable, sortable, selectable grid widgets.  Ext doesn't float my boat.  I wouldn't pick it up to use it on a personal project.  The API just seems so ...