The world has been trying to find out how to run the same code on all machines since the first programmer had to port code. Now, we've accidentally hit the answer to all our dreams, ignoring all the work done in the arena like wxWidgets and Qt.
Today, almost any …continue
This is another one of those 3-hour debug sessions that ended with a single line of code, all other changes being useless.
I was trying to setup my ChiliProject installation to use gitolite, but here's a gotcha that I think many people will fall into: most gitolite tutorials have the …continue
This is actually a continuing from an earlier post regarding Enyo and services, but since Enyo is in NDA, I'm going to assume you know how to get the hello world service working and can create your own service from scratch.
I’ve written two small helpers to distinguish service …continue
This post was private until Enyo is outside of HP's EAP for WebOS, but no longer!
Just a quick note: I use a lot of fake names here that you should replace with your own names. Here's just a few examples: approot: the root directory of wherever you put your …continueBeen working on adding voice and video to Pidgin on Windows, as of today I got it pretty far. If anybody can help debug the stuff from below, email me or just comment below:
(23:30:04) backend-fs2: Conference == NULL
(23:30:04) backend-fs2: Error initializing the conference.
(23:30 …# mIRC is a big pile of doo-doo
I've been working with Yardbird (Django + Twisted + IRC Bot) and I thought about extending the bot I use to do more than just log the one channel it's in. What if it logged all the channels? What if it was the main authentication route instead of O: lines and the …continue
I've used south in the past even during development because it seemed like the only way to edit fields in models.
However, when the data isn't useful such as when initially developing the project or an app, using south to migrate new fields in or out is a waste of …continue
I did another incursion into plugins for Pidgin recently and found a great project called python-purple (not for plugins). However, it was made almost 2 years ago and Cython's handling of 'x and y' changed to match Python's semantics instead of C's. This means 'x and y' returns either x …continue
I'm on the board of a student group on campus that has a 'buddy system' that's been going for a few years now. Every year, the board gets together to match up interested students on campus in a mentor-mentee setup; students designate whether they want to me a mentor or …continue