Restart applications in python

by By: Kerim in python

I wrote a small script that allows for an application to restart. Perhaps it is usefull for others. There are several use cases like "autoupdating" or changes in preferences in the program that require restarts.

Basically it is very easy ...

Our Journey to a blog with django - Part 3: Lessons learned during coding

by By: Jens in django | python

This time i'll talk about my experiences made by building our blog/tiny cms system. It's still in development as some features are missing i'd came up since Part 1 and like to implement, but its already ...

Our Journey to a blog with django - Part 2: The basic Model

by By: Jens in django | python

This time i am going to define our model for a basic system. The basic version should handle content i.e. blog posts and supports tagging for them. All other feature will come later and get their own post.

At ...

Our Journey to a blog with django - Part 1: The Requirements

by By: Jens in django | python

At the very beginning of our blog, we had to decide if we are going with a self written bloglike system or a mature existing one. After some discussion a self written was out of scope back then and so ...

Parsing an excel sheet in Python platform independent

by By: Kerim in python

My wife had some trouble with excelsheets and scripts that had to be created from these sheets. In particular she had to filter the sheet and exclude certain values. Then from the resulting set she had to extract the data ...

A short visit of PyGame

by By: Kerim in game development | pygame | python

Ok, its play time again.
Since Azarai already told you about our newly awakened interest in 3D programming and since he already made some posts about engines, textures, terrain editors etc. I thought i gave you a small intro into ...

Generating Names automatically

by By: Kerim in game development | python | snipplet

Ever tried to create names for Roleplaying Games (and other things) ?
In the process of implementing an MMORPG i asked myself how that could be done. Might be usefull for NPCs for example.
I found a nice article here about ...

Textfields for numbers

by By: Kerim in gui | python

I am not sure if wxPython has a textfield allowing only for numbers (floats or ints).
I found an old mailinglist entry for such a thing and made some changes to the code.

Why would i need that ?
For a ...

Moved code to google

by By: Kerim in matrix | python

Hi everybody,
Azarai has some problems with his new hoster, mainly the problem that he only as one ftp account.
This causes me a lot of trouble since i can't easily upload new releases (if there are any at ...

Measuring memory consumption with python

by By: Kerim in python


Ever wanted to show your free memory (or other things) in the system tray ?
Since i had a really bad celeron based desktop with 1 gigabyte ram and eclipse consuming some 500 megabytes alone i so often ran into trouble ...