Effect Animation with Pyglet

by By: Jens in game development | pyglet | python

While browsing through deviantart i run across some nice prerendered particle effects. The effects are made for RPG Maker VX and cover mostly some kind of magic spells. Game use is allowed. So we got effect animations, pyglet and some ...

Accessing Jira with Python using suds

by By: Jens in python

We are using Jira as an Issue and Bug tracker at work. Lately we had the need to access it from external systems. Luckily Jira itself does provide a remote API in form of XML-RPC and SOAP. And i did ...

Resource tip: Foundation ActionScript 3.0 Animation: Making Things Move!

by By: Jens in python | resource tip

Making things move cover I was recently browsing in a local bookstore and, not sure why i looked at flash books in the first place, i stumpled upon "Foundation ActionScript 3.0 Animation: Making Things Move!"(Amazon: COM, DE ). The book is about coding ...

pySVG.version()+=0.0.1

by By: Kerim in pysvg | python

"Creating svg with python was never easier" ... would be nice to be able to use that slogan once on pySVG. Well ... someday i guess ;-)

I included a (somewhat better ?) support for paths now, but i am not really happy with ...

Secure deletion of data on a drive (attempt 1)

by By: Kerim in python

A while ago i came upon an article about secure deletion of files. An interesting topic as i remember myself wondering why it would be needed to overwrite a file up to 30 times in order to be sure it ...

2d and 3d game and rendering engines for python

by By: Jens in game development | pygame | python

Thanks to the nice feedback i got for 2D Game Engines for Python i decided to compile a list of 2d and 3d game development possibilities with python i found so far. It might not be complete, but i'll ...

Rabid Ratings for Django

by By: Jens in ajax | django | python | snipplet | tools

For my new pet project i'd like to have some nice fancy starlike rating stuff, but without stars :-) Luckily i found one over at ajaxrain called Rabid Ratings. It uses nice looking hearts and is a out of the ...

A new CRPG is born - Milestone 1

by By: Jens in game development | pygame | python

In an earlier post i wrote that i am going to code a simple CRPG with pygame. With an unknown destination, but it will probably be an very interesting way. Yeah i know one should spend a bit more on ...

Doing a binary watch with python and pygame

by By: Kerim in pygame | python

There are 10 different types of people in this world - those that can read binary and those that can`t !

I presented the outcome of the code below to around 5 people. Only 2 understood what it was. I must ...

How to protect your django blog from spam

by By: Jens in django | python

I guess almost all people hate spam, but still it's there. Either they spam your mailbox, forum, blog or whatever. It annoying. But for most communication ways there exist solutions to protect yourself from spam. I am going to ...