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New RunSnakeRun and SquareMap available 22 Aug 2013 | 11:18 am
It has been rather a long time since the last release of RunSnakeRun, mostly because I don't actually find myself using it when I'm doing web development for the most part (just not as performance sen...
Hyperloop Read-through 13 Aug 2013 | 10:39 am
So somehow instead of working tonight I found myself reading through the Hyperloop plans from Elon Musk. Basically it's a very-low-pressure, but not true vacuum, steel tube held up on pylons from LA t...
Laptop Presentation Fail Take 2 12 Aug 2013 | 10:06 pm
So yesterday we needed to have the participants at the PyCon/Mozilla Maker Party view their videos on the front projector, and the loaner laptops were not happy with the task (many of the projects had...
Public Service Announcement PyPI "wx" is not what you think... 12 Aug 2013 | 07:31 pm
It is not wxPython you are installing. It's a "my first module" test package... So how does one "claim" the top-level namespace module on PyPI when the namespace module is different from the name of...
Py_buffer underwhelms so far 5 Aug 2013 | 11:20 am
I spent this evening getting the Py_buffer support in PyOpenGL worked through the codebase. Originally I'd converted the numpy handler to use Py_buffer when in non-accelerated mode, but in the end it...
PyOpenGL Py_buffer Support Moving Forward 28 Jul 2013 | 11:53 pm
I've been getting the Py_buffer protocol based format handler for PyOpenGL implemented. The actual handler for buffer-providing types is pretty simple, and the numpy handler is now rewritten into a ti...
Packaging Ubuntu/Debian is not fun 26 Jul 2013 | 08:04 pm
So I wanted to get Eric4 running on my Ubuntu 13.04 laptop, no problem, the latest Eric4 is compatible, just download the Ubuntu package source, run bzr-merge-upstream and then debuild, right? No, be...
pip/pytz fails with 1.4 and 2013b 26 Jul 2013 | 12:49 am
We happened to be building a new build server today, and one of the steps in the process is to install packages. We download all of the packages to local disk in one step (pip install --download ${pa...
Upgrading the Laptop 25 Jul 2013 | 08:16 am
I finally caved in to the silky sweet seductive tones of Docker. I can't risk the desktop as I need a working machine, but if the laptop is borked I just lose the ability to work away-from-home for a ...
Create a DKMS DEB for a kernel module 25 Jul 2013 | 08:04 am
If you have a traditional kernel module, such as the one for the ASIX AX88179 (source code) you may be rather reluctant to install it on your Ubuntu 12.04 machine because it requires re-compilation fo...
