6 October 2009
Javascript niceties
18:14 | Hacking | Comments: 0
I'm getting married in a couple of weeks. As panic gently rises, I hacked up a fullscreen javascript countdown that more or less matches my state of mind these days. I'll probably take down the link after the wedding, but it basically shows days, hours, minutes and seconds left until the wedding. I was surprised… (...)8 September 2009
Hacking MIDI with Python
20:20 | Python | Comments: 1
On Saturday I gave a talk at PyCon Argentina 2009 with different ideas about stuff you can do with a MIDI device connected to a computer. I've uploaded the slides and examples for the talk, including the .info I used for Impressive. These should also be available on the… (...)7 September 2009
PyCon Argentina 2009
13:09 | Python | Comments: 0
This last Friday and Saturday was PyCon Argentina 2009. It was a roaring success, with over 450 people attending the two-day conference with keynotes by Jacob Kaplan-Moss and Collin Winter. One of the talks I thought was most interesting was Fernando Russ and David Weil's "Do electric snakes dream?" about dreamPy, a library that should… (...)3 September 2009
Ubuntu Developer Week 2009
10:11 | Hacking | Ubuntu | Comments: 0
During all this week in #ubuntu-classroom on freenode there's going to be sessions on different topics related to Ubuntu development. From kernel bugs to translations, most of these sessions are given by people actively working on these areas and give out organized, valuable and up-to-date information that might not be… (...)13 August 2009
Python syntax highlighting in OpenOffice Impress 3.0
11:32 | | | Comments: 1
(Download the code) Each time I prepare a talk I struggle to get the code looking nice in my slides. What we used to do (In OOo 2) was open the Python code using Kate, export as html from there, open that with Firefox, and copy-paste in to Impress. That was the easy way! Unluckily… (...)