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Pyglet Piñata - Create space invaders with pyglet in 40 minutes

Pyglet Piñata - Create space invaders with pyglet in 40 minutes

Interesting talk on Pyglet, a Python package that allows you to easily create games.

Tags: Django, Python
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New Site Launched - Kooka Babywear

New Site Launched - Kooka Babywear

Just launched a new e-commerce site for Kooka Babywear, built in Django.

Tags: Django, Python
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Running Adobe Indesign CS2 under Wine (Linux)

Running Adobe Indesign CS2 under Wine (Linux)

Managed to get Indesign CS2 running under Wine today, woohoo, one less thing tying me down to Windows.

Tags: Linux
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Rendering text as an image using a django template tag

This templatetag allows you to use pil (python image library) to render out text in a custom font and colour. I recently created this template tag for a project I am working on, I haven't seen anything similar so I thought I would share it.

Tags: Django, Python
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Media temple beta testing Django grid hosting

Media temple beta testing Django grid hosting

Media Temple is currently accepting beta testers for their new Django Grid Hosting.

Tags: Django
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Spam me if you dare

Spam me if you dare

Just installed the recaptcha on this blog, hopefully will remove all the comment spam I have been getting lately.

Tags: Django, Python
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Time-lapse photography with a webcam and Python

Another time-lapse python script, this time using a webcam.

Tags: Python
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Simple Menu for Django Flatpages

Generate a menu dynamically from your Django flatpages using templatetags. Using Django as a simple CMS.

Tags: Django, Python
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Cookie Problem in Django admin

Cookie Problem in Django admin

I recently setup a new Server, I was having trouble logging into the django admin. It kept telling me I didn't have cookies enabled. The problem, it turns out, was a conflict between php5 and mod_python.

Tags: Django, Python
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Ping Technorati from your Django blog using xml-rpc

Ping Technorati from your Django blog using xml-rpc

A very simple way of pinging Technorati every time you update your blog using the xmlrpclib in python. Also an example of pinging Google blog search.

Tags: Django, Python
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Goodbye Wordpress, hello Django!!

Goodbye Wordpress, hello Django!!

This is my first post from my new django powered blog. Probably not ready to go live yet as I have done almost no design work but I couldn't resist. Lets see how she holds up.

Tags: Django, Python
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Python S60 - Time-lapse Photography Using a Nokia N80

Python S60 - Time-lapse Photography Using a Nokia N80

Just threw this together as a learning project. This little python script will allow you to do time-lapse photography using a symbian device using Python S60 3rd Edition. The script asks you how many photos you wish to take and the delay between each picture. You can also choose different settings for the pictures.

Tags: Python, Python S60
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Python Script - maintains thumbnails in subfolder

This a very simple script (quite messy too). What is does is checks all images in a folder and creates a thumbnail version in a subfolder called “thumbs”. The script keeps all images in a list and then pickles the list into a file so when you run it again it will only create thumbs for images that weren’t there before. When the script starts it also checks for thumbnails without a big version it will delete these thumbs.

Tags: Python
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XHTML into flash through Javascript (XML)

Sorry for the long title, couldn’t think of a better description. The following tutorial will show you how to pull any valid XHTML into your flash application for use as XML. We will be using Javascript and the “[Unobtrusive Flash Object](http://www.bobbyvandersluis.com/ufo/)” or UFO to achieve. What is great about this technique is that it allows you to publish your content only once and then, depending if the user has flash installed, they will see the same information in either Flash or Plain HTML.

Tags: Flash, Javascript
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Typo3 Domain Records and Bluehost (cPanel)

I Finally managed to install Typo3 onto my Bluehost account, my main problem was the lame domain management tool provided by bluehost. Here is the work around (If anyone knows a better way of doing this let me know)

Tags: Typo3, Bluehost
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