Between now and the Mac being returned, and a new laptop arriving (there’s a Dell with a good reputation for dual-booting on Ubuntu), I decided to have a go at seeing if I could get Django installed on Windows.
So, I’ve followed some of this, while I keep going through the jolly good Django Book. I’ve […]
I’ve had this Nabaztag rabbit for a few weeks, and I’d like it to read my twitters. According to the Nabaztag blog, they’re there, but as per the comments, I’m not finding anything.
There is an API (which someone has written a Python wrapper for) and that Twitter also has an API (with a Python wrapper). […]
I’ve written a little utility using the NPE Maps data, a great project designed to geocode the UK. I needed it for something experimental, but I’m happy to share my utility.
The idea of the utility is to take each of the records that is in the NPE Maps outward + 1st inward database and create […]
A few weeks ago, I sat down and spent about 75 minutes watching a video presentation about Django by Jacob-Kaplan Moss. In case you don’t click the link, it’s a Google TechTalks presentation called "django: Web Development for Perfectionists with Deadlines". There’s a moment in the presentation where Jacob describes it as (I recall) "stupidly […]
The third language that I learnt to program in was a strange creature called Application Master. It was part of ICL’s 4GL system called Quickbuild.
This was something like 17 years ago, it was mainframe based and it had limitations of an 80×24 dumb terminal.
But what was striking about it, even now is just how fast […]
According to Guido Van Rossum, most of the YouTube site is written in Python. I had no idea, but that’s quite an endorsement.
I guess that maybe the video encoding is done with something more low-level, but even so - that’s a large site.
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I’ve just written a Python wrapper class that uses the Yahoo Spelling Suggestion API to check words for alternatives.
If it’s of use, then download from here.
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I’m currently working on a plug-in to Juice to put the files in a better format for my Zen media player. I’ve decided to do it in Python, and compile it up with py2exe, the compiler.
As part of that, I decided to try switching from the standard IDLE environment to using PyDev, an eclipse Plugin. So […]
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