Category archives: Snaking

Someone asked me this morning if I'd really be willing to up-roots and move to another country to teach in a university.  This evening I would definitely say yes.  There's something so attractive about taking a block of knowledge and organizing it so that other people can understand it.

Anyway, have been working on the ...

So much for getting a Python-programmable phone.  Fido has only S40 phones AFAICS.  Rogers has reasonable S60 phones, but they're $300 *with* the multi-year contract and then have to add a rather expensive plan.  I've got something like $90 in "Fido Dollars" (a measure of how much I've been suckered so far), so I can ...

Spent the afternoon on Dojo Grid/DataGrid stuff.  Wound up with something that works if and only iff I use the latest svn head and I don't include it in the widgets I need to include it in.  So it seems as though in this case I'll likely be writing my own or going back for ...

If you're planning on going to PyCon and want to take advantage of the early-bird rates you need to get moving.  Corporate rate is just $450 now, rising to $650 at the door.  Hobbyists can register for $250 and students for just $150.

Still need to plan the plane trip and room-sharing.

[Update] Okay, have ...

Brief discussion at PyGTA about the potential for creating useful tools for the iPhone.  So given today's press release, here's a simple iPhone application to build...

• allow taking a picture of an authenticated user (either directly or via file transfer)
• provides a library of faces for brute-force attacks
• do basic image processing to manipulate ...

Been doing minor tweaks and fixes in response to bug-reports from people testing PyOpenGL.  So far mostly changes to the test suite.  Discovered that a bzr checkout on Vista wouldn't pick up the now-bundled GLE or GLUT DLLs due to access restrictions, hopefully have that fixed now.  Seeing a GLU NURBs failure on the PRoesch ...

Got some time on the train home today to work on RSR.  I'm going to consider it beta 1 now.  There are some packaging fixes needed (e.g. getting the dependencies declared), but it seems basically finished as far as the code is concerned.  With wxPython installed:

easy_install SquareMap
easy_install RunSnakeRun

which should, if all the ...

We'll be going free-form at PyGTA on Tuesday.  Discussions, debates, packages, projects, problems, you name it.  Bring what you have, help with what others bring, be all you can be.  Regular time and place, 7:15pm on the third Tuesday at Linux Caffe.

This baby has been cooking for way too long.  If there's no show-stoppers reported, PyOpenGL 3.0.0c1 should be the same as the final release.  The only big change from the last beta is that it now includes GLUT and GLE implementations packaged as data-files for Win32 deployments.

3.0.0 is a complete rewrite of PyOpenGL using ...

My cell phone's charger wound up left in St. Maarten, and since it was a piece of junk anyway I'm thinking I'll replace it with a reasonably "hackable" cell phone.  I'd particularly like something that can run Python, which I *think* limits me to Nokia S60-based devices.  So, what does the lazy-web suggest, what's the ...