Posts with tag python
Hy, Lisp in Python
I’ve meant to look at Hy since Paul Tagliamonte started to talk to me about it, but never took a chance until now. Yesterday, Paul indicated it was a good time for me to start looking at it, so I spent a few hours playing.
OpenStack Swift eventual consistency analysis & bottlenecks
Swift is the software behind the OpenStack Object Storage service.
This service provides a simple storage service for applications using RESTful interfaces, providing maximum data availability and storage capacity.
I explain here how some parts of the storage and replication in Swift works, and show some of its current limitations.
If you don’t know Swift and want to read a more “shallow” overview first, you can read John Dickinson’s Swift Tech Overview.
xpyb 1.3 released
It took a while to get it out, but finally, 3 years after the latest release (1.2), the version of 1.3 of xpyb (the XCB Python bindngs) is out.
22 Mar 2012 | Tags: python xcb xpyb freedesktop x11
Google Calendar notifications using pynotify
I use Google Calendar to manage my calendars, and I really missed something to warn me whenever I have an appointment with an alert set.
03 Jan 2012 | Tags: python gtk notify googlecalendar gdata
Python sets comparisons
This week I lost some time playing with Python‘s sets.
17 May 2011 | Tags: python
Python cairo and XCB support
cairo has a Python binding (pycairo) since a long time, and some months ago a Python binding for XCB (xpyb) has been released.
Teething troubles
It’s not that often that I start something from scratch. It’s an amazing feeling to start a new project, to start writing something new. I like that. It’s creation, it’s an artistic part of our computing stuff. I feel like a code artist.