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Premix 1.0 Released

thomas — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 21:45:24 +0000

I am extremely pleased to announce the 1.0 release of Premix, an easy to use Python wrapper around the Best Buy Remix APIs. It is compatible with Google App Engine.

Changes in this version includes updated tests, the addition of extend() to add an ‘OR’ complement filter(), and new convenience properties on results, next and previous. Version 1.0 is backwards compatible with previous 0.9 versions.

The project’s main repository and wiki are hosted on bitbucket.org.

Premix 0.9.3 Released

thomas — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 17:29:31 +0000

I am pleased to announce the 0.9.3 release of Premix, an easy to use Python wrapper around the Best Buy Remix APIs. It also runs on Google App Engine.

Changes in this version includes updated tests. Version 0.9.3 is backwards compatible with previous 0.9 versions.

The project’s main repository and wiki are hosted on bitbucket.org.

Premix 0.9.2 Released

thomas — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 18:03:42 +0000

I am pleased to announce the 0.9.2 release of Premix, an easy to use Python wrapper around the Best Buy Remix APIs. It also runs on Google App Engine.

Changes in this version include a fix for the retry logic and more tests. Version 0.9.2 is backwards compatible with versions 0.9, and 0.9.1.

The project’s main repository and wiki are hosted on bitbucket.org.

Gaegene Released

thomas — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 06:24:41 +0000

I am pleased to announce the 0.1 release of Gaegene, a collection of general purpose models, utilities, and mix-in classes to help develop Google App Engine web apps. It was created while developing Giftag for Best Buy.

The 0.1 release contains two modular apps to help simplify two common design patterns, counters and slugs. Future releases will also help with images, pagination, and tagging.

The project’s main repository and wiki, as well as a test/example webapp are hosted on bitbucket.org.

Climbing The Stack

thomas — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 22:20:36 +0000

When I was in college, I used to look at the kids who took the compiler theory classes and loved to work in assembler and think to myself, “Thank goodness you like that stuff. Now I can concentrate on solving real problems with C.”

Now I realize that I’m starting to look at C programmers the same way. “Thank goodness you like that stuff. Now I can concentrate on solving real problems with Python.”

I guess I’m just a “top of the stack” kind of guy. Shoulders of giants and all that.

Rescuing Code

thomas — Wed, 09 May 2007 17:46:58 +0000

I’ve been working recently on “rescuing” some code I had written a year ago (under the codename KARPmusic) to control icecast and ices. It’s written in python, so at least that part is easy, but it was written against the TurboGears web development framework rather than Django which I’m using now. Thus, it’s not a simple copy/paste task.

I actually enjoy this kind of archaeological coding. It’s very zen-like because the underlying logic of the code is done and working. All I have to do is put a fresh coat of “syntax-paint” on it. Some might find that kind of coding tedious because you aren’t actually creating anything new. I like it because it allows me to focus on some of the more esoteric aspects of programming (e.g. coding-style, unit-testing) which usually take a back seat to functionality. Another benefit to this kind of code-migration is that I am personally confronted with how much better a python programmer I am now than a year ago.

Now, if I could just apply the same zen-like strategy to other aspects of my life. “I’m going back and re-integrating some of my childhood belief patterns into my current life. Anyone know what I can do with this ‘trust authority’ pattern I’ve found?”

What Is Python?

thomas — Fri, 04 May 2007 22:29:14 +0000

Many of you know about the programming language python that I’ve become enamored with over the past year or so. Some of you may have thought I was talking about snakes or Monty.

For those of you that are interested, Curt (yes, Curt again, get used to hearing about him) just sent me a link to this cool video of a Google presentation, Advanced Python (or Understanding Python). Even if you’re an experienced snake charmer there’s probably something in there you didn’t know.

Oh, and this gives me a chance to try this “video embedding” that seems to be all the rage right now.