Archive for the tag 'Python'

Gtk-Womitor 0.2

Ok the name, is funny .. But I decided to write a little app to monitor my wifi signal level.

The code is too ugly right now, I need to add noise, signal .. and a better OO API. Anyway, it tooks me 2 hours to write this, and that’s why I like Python.
Update
I spend a [...]

admin October 26th, 2004

Obscufated email ?

Little hack to make a bit harder for spammers to parse email address on the web.
def cryptEmailAddress(addr):
r = []
for l in addr:
r.append(’&#%d;’ % ord(l))
return string.join(r,”)

>>>cryptEmailAddress(’jkx@larsen-b.com’)
‘jkx@larse….’
And simply put this in a href mailto: and enjoy :) Check the article’s pages on this website for a example.

admin October 6th, 2004

Alinea 2

Ok let’s go. I’m working on Alinea2 right now. Alinea is the stuff that power this website and others. I’ll hope to get it working quickly.
Beside, this is a big work.. I loose my time with CSS hacking right now ! I guess I should stop this but .. i don’t.
from AlineaLib import motivation
motivation.enable()
Let’s go [...]

admin October 2nd, 2004

RSS for SVN

Phil has finish to hack the SVN hooks to produce a RSS feed for the latest commits. This is pretty kool ? Now I don’t have to manage a mailing list for SVN commits.
I’m just wondering why his feed is out-dated on the python-weblog, and isn’t on the python-planet ?

admin September 20th, 2004

Python web developpement: the dilemma / Act 2

After a long trip around the Python web developpement tools, it’s time to fix. In a previous post (please read all comments before ..) we have talk for a long time about various web frameworks. Here is my personnal conclusion:

A web framework has nothing to do with templates. It need to allow to wrap templates [...]

admin September 15th, 2004

Plone too complicated ?

Who said that Plone is a too complicated ?
Check out the Plone Concept Map to be sure you know what you mean !
– Enjoy the road :)

admin September 4th, 2004

Full featured SMTP in Python ?

In a recent post Ian explain he get a lot of trouble w/ the configuration of his mail system. I ran into the same issues a little time ago. Now i’m using postfix and courier-imap and maildrop to dispatch the mail between. This setup is really easy because Postfix just accept incomming mail, and maildrop [...]

admin September 1st, 2004

Twisted in EndUserLand

As nobody notice that, the new apt-proxy use python (not perl as the old one). This is really a good news because i love Python and the new apt-proxy has some better performance than the oldest perlish one. The key value here is the Twisted Matrix framework, now apt-proxy can download multiple .deb at the [...]

admin July 14th, 2004

Python web developpement: the dilemma

There is a bunch of Python based web framework. So much that it’s a really hard choice to do. Most of them came w/ a special templating language, and a different approach.

Dilemma 1
I really think most of the frameworks, have nothing to do with templating. We should give up with that mixOmatic. A framework is [...]

admin June 20th, 2004

Convert Realaudio stream to wav / mp3 on linux

I really enjoy to listen radio. Most of the radio use Realaudio stream. On Un*x, you usually can use realplayer. Now i want to convert this stream to mp3 in order to listen it on my mp3 player.
Howto:

First down the .ram file
open it to find the rtsp url (something like rtsp://XXXX/stream.rm)
ask mplayer to encode it [...]

admin June 13th, 2004