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Happy τ Day 29 Jun 2013 | 06:44 am
And as my sister suggested, let us all eat two pies to celebrate. tauday.com
data.gc.ca 19 Jun 2013 | 06:10 am
A site I've been working on for the past few months has just launched. data.gc.ca "2.0" is a completely rewritten version of the Open Data portal for the Government of Canada. I worked on the CKAN po...
Write the Docs 6 Apr 2013 | 07:01 pm
I will be attending the Write the Docs conference in Portland on Monday/Tuesday. I've spent a lot of time with Sphinx this past year working on updating and improving the Urwid documentation. I've fo...
Sean Zicari's Curses and Urwid Talk 21 Mar 2013 | 09:57 pm
Sean Zicari gave a Curses and Urwid presentation at the recent PyCon US in Santa Clara. Slide Deck: http://speakerdeck.com/pyconslides/use-curses-dont-swear-by-sean-zicari Video: http://pyvideo.org/...
Painting with Braille 15 Mar 2013 | 06:56 am
This is something I've been wanting to write for a while. Unicode page U+2800 has all the combinations of a 2x4 grid of Braille dots. Braille dots that line up neatly with the ones on all sides in mo...
Iterables, Iterators and Generators: Part 2 26 Feb 2013 | 08:07 pm
This is the second part of the talk I gave January 24, 2013 at the Ottawa Python Authors Group. Part One introduces Python iterables and iterators and generators. This part covers the advanced use of...
Iterables, Iterators and Generators: Part 1 12 Feb 2013 | 05:56 pm
This is part one of a talk I gave January 24, 2013 at the Ottawa Python Authors Group Part Two is now also available. Both parts of this presentation are also available as a single IPython Notebook ...
Urwid 1.1.1 and 1.0.3 Released 16 Nov 2012 | 05:55 am
Urwid maintenance releases 1.1.1 and 1.0.3 are now available. These releases contain only bug-fixes, see the Changelog for details. Urwid home page Changelog
Urwid Applications at PyCon Canada 14 Nov 2012 | 10:05 pm
I gave a 20-minute talk running through 7 great Urwid Applications at PyCon Canada in Toronto this past weekend. The "Console Applications with Urwid" video is now available. Huge thanks to the confe...
Python Container Literals 1 Nov 2012 | 07:32 pm
This post covers some basic Python syntax that tends to trip up people just starting with the language. Literal tuple, list, dict and set definitions have some edge cases you need to be aware of when...
