Category archives: Snaking
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Probably need to switch blog software (CoreBlog1 causing too much annoyance to hosts...)
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Tim reminded me today that CoreBlog1 (i.e. this blog) is becoming a bit of a pain for the admins. Mostly because of the huge volumes of comment spam blowing out the zodb file-size. So, it seems that I'll have to find a new bit of blogging software.
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* ability to import MoveableType ...
Probably need to switch blog software (CoreBlog1 causing too much annoyance to hosts...)
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Tim reminded me today that CoreBlog1 (i.e. this blog) is becoming a bit of a pain for the admins. Mostly because of the huge volumes of comment spam blowing out the zodb file-size. So, it seems that I'll have to find a new bit of blogging software.
What I need:
* ability to import MoveableType ...
Talk went okay, met Shane Holloway (Let 100 OpenGL bindings bloom...)
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We're starting to get an embarrassment of OpenGL bindings. PyOpenGL 3.x, Pyglet, Nokia's OpenGL ES and Shane's C-based binding (generated with gccxml) come to mind. PyOpenGL is AFAIK the only PyOpenGL 2.x compatible one, but there really seems to be an interest in the auto-generated C-style interfaces for small projects.
Ian Bicking and I are ...
Presentations for Fun (Soon to come....)
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Been practicing the presentation for much of the day. Also met a friendly student and we had lunch with David and Evelyn. I'm getting very high energy around now... yay!
The source is here and the PDF version is here.
Dallas (FW) veterans, good place to meet for taxi sharing? (Never been there...)
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For Taxi Sharing it would be nice if there were a place to meet, that is, some place which is easy to find, which any person could find (potentially with help from a friendly airline person). Some place where you could sit for an hour or so without causing problems. For instance a given coffee ...
PyGTA introduction to Django tonight (Linux Caffe @ 6:30pm)
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Clifford is going to present on Django today (possibly in a tag team with another developer). Presenting how to use the framework for building a web-site for fun and profit.
Okay, beginning to feel real (Businesses are so inconvenient sometimes...)
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The reality of being just 2.5 days away from leaving (and thus having to have the month's work wrapped up) is beginning to sink in. Also just realised it's only 7 days, not 10 (February being rather short). I'm expecting I'll need to sit in the lobby late a couple of nights getting work done ...
Slipping quickly toward PyCon (Doesn't seem real yet...)
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Weird to realise I'm leaving for PyCon on Thursday morning. So many things to get done before then, but somehow the idea that I'm leaving for 10 days just doesn't seem to be sparking the urgency it should. Oh well.
I'm beginning to think about what to do for the sprints. I'd love to have ...
New release of PyOpenGL is out (PyOpenGL-Demo too...)
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Took the bulk of the day off today to get the next release of PyOpenGL out the door. I've re-enabled the numarray support, using the same underlying library as for the Numeric support (i.e. no binary modules). I've also stripped out the "Demo" directory and made a separate egg for that so that projects that ...
New release of StarPy is out (Minor fixes and improvements...)
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Little bit of a project using StarPy this week. It's resulted in some minor improvements to StarPy. Basically a couple of bug-fixes and a minor feature enhancement (added a timeout for AMI connections).
Mike C. Fletcher, the VRPlumber, is a philosopher of design turned computer programmer based in Toronto, Canada. He works primarily in the Python programming language, and maintains a large number of Open Source software packages. You can reach him at: mcfletch@vrplumber.com.