Archive | November, 2005

28 November 2005 ~ 6 Comments

Broken Django

metis# cd /usr/local/django/django_src
metis# svn update
And with those two lines, I somehow broke my Django installation on my Linux box.
Before breaking everything, I had worked through most of the tutorial and was actually starting to get the hang of the framework. Now I’m getting list index out of range errors. Very odd.
I’m [...]

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27 November 2005 ~ 0 Comments

Kibot

Some of the Linux geeks at Duke put together what appears to be rather cool IRC bot implementation in Python:
Kibot is a python-based IRC bot written to be cleanly and robustly modular, powerful and flexible. It has a rich permissions framework, and writing modules/commands for it is ridiculously simple.
In the past I’ve looked at [...]

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26 November 2005 ~ 0 Comments

Sudoku

I’ve been reading about Sudoku and it sounds like an interesting puzzle. I’ll let Wikipedia explain how it works:
The aim of the canonical puzzle is to enter a numerical digit from 1 through 9 in each cell of a 9×9 grid made up of 3×3 subgrids (called “regions”), starting with various digits given in [...]

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26 November 2005 ~ 0 Comments

Simon’s introduction to Django

At the risk of repeating everything already posted at the Django Weblog, I think it’s worth noting that Simon Willison has made his Introduction to Django presentaion slides available online (pdf) .
Also, as someone who gives the occasional talk at my local LUG, Simon’s public speaking tips are definitely worth reading. Specifically, his advice [...]

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25 November 2005 ~ 0 Comments

Comp.lang.python podcast

Davy Mitchell is asking for feedback on a comp.lang.python podcast demo that he recently created. When I first read his post, I was pretty excited about another Python podcast being added to the mix (Python411 being the other one). But after a quick listen, I discovered it was put together with [...]

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