Category archives: Snaking
Discussions of programming, particularly of programming Python
We wait 175x slower, apparently (Benchmarks are fun ways to waste time...)
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User asked me to look at the POGL/PyOpenGL benchmark thing again. So I added a few cProfile calls to the silly thing so I could actually see what's going on (why not just use profiling to start with? Why create opaque graphs of pointless data when you can have a full breakdown of where the ...
Look, a Soni-blog! (Parallel systems and other stuff...)
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Soni's started blogging about her parallel processing experiments (currently doing a "hello-world" of sorts, a distributed quick-sort algorithm). Happy little parallel Soni!
Getting the PyOpenGL manual updated (It's been ages...)
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Spending the day on PyOpenGL today. First up was integrating various small fixes and changes from people. Since then have been trying to get the reference manual updated. It's a rather involved distutils script at the moment (integrated into PyOpenGL2).
I'm trying to remove some of that pointless complexity, the setup to get the distutils ...
Python in a Strange Land tonight at PyGTA (IronPython and ASP.NET)
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PyGTA this evening is getting a presentation from Myles Braithwaite :) . He's going to be showing us the IronPython implementation for use in ASP.NET applications.
While Python is normally associated with the Free and Open Source communities, contractors and developers using it often need to work on Microsoft's development platforms. IronPython is a Python ...
Bare-bones example of PyGTK2 + Twisted (Because simple is what you need to start...)
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This is a minimalist version of integrating Twisted and PyGTK2, all it does is create a single PyGTK window, create a Twisted reactor that supports PyGTK and then run the application, closing when you close the PyGTK window. It doesn't actually do anything with the window or the network, it just shows how to initiate ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.