In case you didn't realize it, PyCon has officially started today in Santa Clara, CA. Sadly my organization was too slow footed to secure a ticket for me, so I won't be there to report on what's going on this year. Instead, I'll try to post links to other people's blogs so you can get […]
February 14, 2012 by
Mike Menus are ubiquitous. They're in almost all desktop programs. You use them for editing preferences or configuring your program. In wxPython, there are several menu options to choose from. The most familiar is probably wx.Menu. But there are are popup menus and a pure Python implementation known as FlatMenu. We will just be covering wx.Menu […]
I was recently asked to convert a few hundred images into PDF pages. A friend of mine draws comics and my brother wanted to be able to read them on a tablet. Alas, if you had a bunch of files named something like this: 'Jia_01.Jpg', 'Jia_02.Jpg', 'Jia_09.Jpg', 'Jia_10.Jpg', 'Jia_11.Jpg', 'Jia_101.Jpg' the Android tablet would reorder […]
Last Thursday (the 5th) I attended Pyowa, the local Iowa Python Users group I founded a few years ago. We had Scott Peterson from Principal Financial Group come and talk to us about Library Gadget, a cool Django-based website he created to track what library books his family has checked out. Now he has lots […]
December 31, 2011 by
Mike Everyone likes retrospective articles. I'm not sure why, but lists just pull people in. Last year, my top ten list was pretty popular, so this year I'm going to do it again. This year I hit 247,901 visits and 345,452 page views over the course of the year compared with 137,727 visits and 213,814 page […]
December 21, 2011 by
Mike I was reading the Python blog feed yesterday and stumbled on Tarek Ziade's Python Meme article. I thought it sounded like a fun idea, so here's my answers to his questions.
