by Greg Turnquist | Jul 9, 2014 | asciidoctor, python
My nephew expressed interest last year in creating games and programs on his computer. I bought him a super cool book, Making Games with Python and Pygame. He’s been busy with other things, but today I got a call from him asking how to set up Python. I was...
by Greg Turnquist | Mar 31, 2014 | blog, python
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vx5n21zHPm8&w=350] Last night I finally googled around and found http://python-wordpress-xmlrpc.readthedocs.org/en/latest/. This library uses WordPress’s XML-RPC API hook to let you connect, fetch content, and make...
by Greg Turnquist | Aug 3, 2011 | github, python, toolbox
No, this isn’t a new open source project. Instead, its my toolbox of useful scripts.I spent half a day figuring out how to limit network traffic on my system to emulate a customer’s slow network link. After manually typing ipfw commands to turn on...
by Greg Turnquist | Oct 15, 2009 | java, jython, python, spring python
I recently completed a patch that replaces the amara library with python’s default elementTree library. As much as I like amara’s API, its C-extension basis was unacceptable. I just merged the patch into the trunk, and verified it works with Jython...
by Greg Turnquist | Jun 11, 2009 | java, python, spring python
I was tracking some comments, and recently noticed a thread of discussion (in English) on a python mailing list. This is a follow-up to someone else posting about his discovery of Spring Python through the news announcement from SpringSource. (I appreciated that the...
by Greg Turnquist | Feb 1, 2009 | python, spring python
I have bumped into articles and forum postings, blog entries, other blog entries, and yet more blog entries. In fact, while writing this blog entry, someone posed the question “what is the aim of Spring Python?” (Click and see my answer.) There are a...
