Archive | December, 2006

23 December 2006 ~ 0 Comments

PyInstaller

If you need to distribute your Python scripts under Windows, PyInstaller might be what you need:
PyInstaller is a program that converts (packages) Python programs into stand-alone executables, under Windows, Linux and Irix. Its main advantages over similar tools are that PyInstaller works with any version of Python since 1.5, it builds smaller executables thanks to [...]

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23 December 2006 ~ 0 Comments

Pyglet

Pyglet is “a cross-platform multimedia library written in pure Python. It uses built-in operating system facilities on Linux, Mac OS X and Windows to provide windowing, drawing, event handling and so on.”

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17 December 2006 ~ 1 Comment

YouTube “almost entirely” Python

Quoth Guido:
And I just found out (after everyone else probably :-) that YouTube is almost entirely written in Python. (And now I can rub shoulders with the developers since they’re all Googlers now… :-)
Well that’s interesting!

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11 December 2006 ~ 0 Comments

Recording/converting CS:S demos?

I’ve been doing a little research into recording Counter-Strike: Source demos (.dem) and converting the files into something usable like an avi. So far I haven’t had much luck. Instead I’ve been left using the free version of Fraps that adds a watermark and limits recording to 30 seconds. It just doesn’t seem like it’s [...]

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09 December 2006 ~ 1 Comment

Django instead of Rails?

Here’s a short list of reasons to use Django instead of Rails:
Browsing around the wonderful programming.reddit.com last night, I came across a post titled Why Django kicks Ruby on Rails’ collective ass. This is an interesting article, mainly because in a sense it is right, but it goes about explaining Django’s benefits all wrong…
Worth reading [...]

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