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Twisted Network Programming Essentials book review 14 Jul 2013 | 02:46 am
Twisted Network Programming Essentials by Jessica McKellar & Abe Fettig (O'Reilly Media) gives an introduction to Twisted, a Python framework devoted to event-driven programming, and particularly it's...
The Dynamics of Catching Exceptions in Python 3 May 2013 | 03:56 am
In which I discuss dynamism in catching exceptions - something which took me by surprise and could hide bugs - or enable fun... The Problem Code The following code - abstracted just slightly(!) from...
New pylibftdi release - 0.11 4 Jan 2013 | 04:25 am
'pylibftdi' is a library for talking to FTDI devices via the libftdi library. FTDI make a wide range of chipsets and modules for interfacing to a number of protocols via USB, including 8-bit parallel ...
Typing to Yourself 5 Oct 2012 | 03:48 am
I had an awesome time at PyConUK last weekend. I went to my first code dojo where I helped write a text-based adventure game (with a disturbing plot!), played with using Python on a RaspberryPi to acc...
Project Naming in a Google World 25 Sep 2012 | 03:06 am
I’m a great fan of Python; not only do I think the language itself is clean and readable, the community polite and helpful, and the ecosystem diverse and fascinating, but also the Zen of Python resona...
pylibftdi v0.10 released 10 Jun 2012 | 10:59 pm
I’ve recently released pylibftdi v0.10. pylibftdi is a ‘minimal Pythonic interface to libftdi’, and is intended to be (possibly?) the easiest way to get up and running for simple use cases of FTDI’s r...
My First 3 hours with a Raspberry Pi 9 Jun 2012 | 05:42 am
My Raspberry Pi arrived a couple of weeks ago, but I've been too busy to play with it til now. And tomorrow I'll be too busy with different things :-) I'd intended to put Arch Linux on it, since that...
urlsearch - web searching from the command line 8 May 2012 | 10:13 am
Continuing my pursuit of having a custom vocabulary on my command line, preferably via argv[0] abuse, I've now addressed the subject of web searching. I probably make somewhere between 20 and 50 searc...
editfile - editing text files made twice as easy 29 Jan 2012 | 02:37 pm
It's been far too long since I wrote anything on this blog, so I'm easing myself back into it with what I've found to be a nice shortcut over the last few months. It uses one of my favourite POSIX tri...
HTTP or it doesn't exist. 19 Jul 2011 | 10:35 am
This is my 'or it doesn't exist' blog post[1][2][3]. I think everyone should have one ;-) A big chunk of my life is processing electronic information. Since I would like it to be a (slightly) smaller...
