Archive for the ‘python’ Category

How to waste time on google wave

Posted in python on Wednesday, October 21st, 2009. Comments Off

You really want to do that? Easy enough, just add danceric-hangman[at]appspot.com to any wave, and start playing hangman game in text mode.

The code is on github at: http://github.com/danceric/wave-hangman

P.S.: As always, keep in mind that this was done to learn a little more bit about Google Wave and Python, so don’t expect the best game ever.

P.P.S.: [...]

Update On My Python Learning

Posted in python on Tuesday, October 6th, 2009. Comments Off

Some other projects haves slowed down my Python learning progress, but things are now geting back to normal. I’ve read a lot of documentation on Python (the official tutorial, PQR, diveintopython2-3, etc), and now it’s time to get my hands dirty.

I’ve build a simple blog (you know, ‘blog’ is the new ‘hello, world!’) using the [...]

Django, virtualenv and mod_wsgi

Posted in python on Thursday, March 26th, 2009. 3 comments so far

I’ve been working with Python and Django lately, here’s my configuration for future reference

The setup

I’ve got a test website built with Django and it’s running on a VPS (at Linode). the setup is as follow

Ubuntu 8.04 LTS with the Apache preform MPM package python virtualenv Django mod_wsgi 2.4

Some explanation on the setup

As I plan to have many website [...]

Progress with Python

Posted in python on Thursday, March 19th, 2009. One comment so far

Three weeks ago, I have decided to use my free time to re-learn python. My first step was reading the book Python: Visual QuickStart Guide which is really pleasant to read, and a short one too (found the dead-tree version for only $15).

I also keep these reference close to me at all time

Python Quick Reference Dive [...]

Python

Posted in python on Tuesday, February 24th, 2009. Comments Off

From 1999-2002, I wasn’t doing a lot of web development, I was a Powerbuilder programmer. and on some project, I was working with QPL (http://qpl.gao.gov/). It don’t remember a lot from these glorious day, but the thing I do remember is how buggy Powerbuilder 6.0 was at the time (and how painful it was to [...]