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.
December 15, 2011 by
Mike This is an unorthodox review of Numpy 1.5 Beginner's Guide by Ivan Idris. I have to say two things right off before we get into the review: This book was given to me in ebook and physical form directly from Packt Publishing I actually don't think I have enough math to review this On that […]
December 14, 2011 by
Mike The wxPython project's Phoenix release is slowly coming along. Phoenix is the codename for the new wxPython that will support both Python 2.x and 3.x. Anyway, Andrea Gavana has put together some autogenerated documentation using Sphinx on top of Doxygen. You can read about the announcement including any known issues on the wxPython mailing list. […]
December 13, 2011 by
Mike Have you ever wondered how to create those little status icons in the Windows System Tray that usually appear on the lower right of your screen? The wxPython toolkit provides a pretty simple way to do just that and this article will walk you through the process.
December 12, 2011 by
Mike The 2012 Python Conference USA opened Registration today. The official announcement doesn't mention it, but I'm pretty sure there's an attendance cap on this conference too of 1500 just like last year. You should sign up early not only because of the limited attendance, but because there are "Early Bird" rates which are cheaper! The […]
Background ================ This is the first release of a real project that I've been involved in. I had written an article last month that inspired Werner Bruhin to want to take it and make it into a demonstration program for new wxPython programmers in how to do MVC and CRUD while interfacing with a database. […]