Advogato blog for eopadoan

5 Apr 2008

Sat, 5 Apr 2008 00:54:57 GMT

Py3k I18n

Improving on Sam Ruby's example, to show that, in Python 3.0, code (names) can use unicode characters (also, the default encoding of the interpreter now is utf-8):

$ python3.0

Python 3.0a3+ (py3k:61959, Mar 26 2008, 21:02:26)

[GCC 4.2.3 (Ubuntu 4.2.3-2ubuntu6)] on linux2

Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more

information.

>>> Iñtërnâtiônàlizætiøn = 'Iñtërnâtiônàlizætiøn'

>>> print(len(Iñtërnâtiônàlizætiøn))

20

>>>

Use with care :)

30 Mar 2008

Sun, 30 Mar 2008 17:56:14 GMT

WebRant 2.0

Its a bit strange that all that some "technologists" have to say about Silverlight and Flex is "w00t! bling!".

The Web is about openness - human-readable data. MSFT should stop trying to pervert it and help the WHATWG.

28 Feb 2008

Thu, 28 Feb 2008 14:09:56 GMT

Interesting emergent software

Long time no blog. So, to break the silence for a second, here is a list of cool new software that I have played with recently:

CouchDB
Schemaless, document-oriented database, uses JSON as the document Representation and provides a simple RESTfull API. Written in Erlang, with concurrency in mind. Recently adopted by the Apache Foundation incubator.
Io language
Prototyped Object-Oriented programming language. Minimum syntax, litle enough to fit in my head :), and lot better than Smalltalk syntax. Supports differential inheritance. Growing library, with Unit Test already, for example.
Haiku OS
Still in pre-alpha state, but already usable. Free software Revival of BeOS, binary compatible with R5. I will post some screenshots as soon as I get Firefox running on it.

29 Dec 2007

Sat, 29 Dec 2007 00:04:41 GMT

Django Wikiapp

Checkout while it is hot: django-wikiapp

15 Nov 2007

Thu, 15 Nov 2007 22:00:03 GMT

"RedirectedIO context manager and redirect_io decorator" recipe

My first recipe on ASPN.

13 Nov 2007

Tue, 13 Nov 2007 02:01:22 GMT

Reinteract is fun. I present you rehtml:

[UPDATE] Forget the code you saw here, and checkout this project. Also take a look at this list of extensions.

18 Oct 2007

Thu, 18 Oct 2007 12:23:35 GMT

Ubuntu 7.10 released - Bittorrent links

TODO(wnload) when I get at home:

Ubuntu 7.10 Desktop (i386) torrent

Ubuntu 7.10 Server (i386) torrent

9 Oct 2007

Tue, 9 Oct 2007 11:55:06 GMT

Last week: 3 days teaching Python at FATEC. Thanks people, that was awesome!

Last weekend: Installed Foresight on my laptop. Great distro. More on that later.

27 Sep 2007

Thu, 27 Sep 2007 14:16:36 GMT

Immutable Bytes PEP

It seems that the Py3k "bytes" will be immutable (just like the Python 2.x "str"), and a "buffer" type will be mutable. Just see the new PEP 3137

4 Sep 2007

Tue, 4 Sep 2007 00:09:00 GMT

Sam Ruby tryied to port the Univesal Feed Parser to Py3k. 91% of the tests pass, what is quite nice. UFP is a great piece of code, and one of the first things I would miss.
PyGTK people started talking about the migration - this will be very appreciated too :)

Update: Do you know of any other migration initiative? Please, tell me!