http://www.4geeks.de/blog -.- Wed, 17 Feb 2010 15:08:22 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I recently Ding!ed committer for Unladen Swallow 8-) I'm currently trying to teach Unladen to recompile functions. This turned out to be more complicated than I anticipated. There is one especially obscure 'bug'. Enabling recompilation makes the subprocess module tests hang, but only if it is executed after the pickle tests. The ... http://www.4geeks.de/blog/archives/2010/02/unladen-swallow/ I was quite happy to notice, that my favourite VCS, Mercurial, was released in version 1.3.1! And I'm still using 1.1.2 out of the Ubuntu repository. Eagerly I updated from the release PPA, but what did I know back than. First thing I noticed was the half done translation. German technical ... http://www.4geeks.de/blog/archives/2009/10/downgrade/ While studying for my exams, I tried to implement some examples from a book about virtual machines. The result was a nice little program which can compile simple functional programs into python bytecode! The only thing you need is the ply parser generator. To compile a function just use: import topcompiler @topcompile.compile def func(x, y): ... http://www.4geeks.de/blog/archives/2009/07/simple-ml-to-python/ If you want to enhance your TG2 app with some tech, like .. say a RPC-XML Interface, you can use the special Controller provided by Pylons: XMLRPCController. Unfortunately you can not just mount this controller as any other Turbogears Controller, because it does not support object dispatch. Instead you have to ... http://www.4geeks.de/blog/archives/2009/05/using-pylons-controller-in-turbogears-20/ While playing around with Sprox and TG2, I found a little bug for which a fix is commited to Sprox, but not yet released. I had to a bit until I found a nice and easy workaround. I just copied the changed code into a Mixin class, which can be ... http://www.4geeks.de/blog/archives/2009/05/sprox-and-tg2/ While surfing around I discovered a nice little Mercurial Extension: hgkeychain. Unfortunately it's only for Mac. As Gnome has password management of it's own, I looked there is someway to access it via Python. And there is! So I wrote a quick extension myself: hggnome-keyring It uses the usual yadda yadda for ... http://www.4geeks.de/blog/archives/2009/04/mercurial-hggnome-keyring-extension/ If you do not know perl, don’t fret.. it’s extremely easy to learn. Found in a programming forum from non-coders for non-coders... I lol'd! http://www.4geeks.de/blog/archives/2009/03/perl/ I created a little video with the md simulation, I'm working on for my diploma thesis. It simulates condensing Argon atoms using 8 cpus and around 130 cpu hours. Parallelization was done with Space-Filling curves. I used around 500 thousand particles ... try that with your standard O(n2) algorithms. Condensing Argon Of ... http://www.4geeks.de/blog/archives/2009/02/molecular-dynamics/ Gefunden in einem Computerforum bei der Recherche für RepairExpert. http://www.4geeks.de/blog/archives/2009/02/unloesbar/ Endlich habe ich es geschafft mein neues 'kleines' Projekt fertigzustellen: repair.4geeks.de Wie jeder der sich irgendwie mit Computern beschäftigt, habe auch ich meinen Ruf weg. Das hat zur Folge, dass ich genötigt werden Computer von Freunden und Bekannten zu reparieren. Irgendwann kam mir der Gedanke, meine Erlebnisse in wiederverwertbare Form zu gießen. ... http://www.4geeks.de/blog/archives/2009/02/repair4geeksde/