FarmerJoe – An easier render solution.
I’ve been very happy until now with drqueue. Developed by Jorge Daza, it’s a very nice render farm management software with a nice GUI. It worked relatively well for me for “Jose’s Dinner” and...
View ArticlePhilosophizing on the Move can lead to trouble
The plot twist at the end is awesome, but so is the programmer’s debate going on, especially since we were talking about this at work this week. Another great xkcd from Randall Monroe: Related posts:...
View ArticleMy Latest Procedural Art
More math-based art, but I really like how this came out a LOT better than my experiment with Fibonacci. Check them out! A really tight Archemedean Spiral featuring my photos tagged with Cornell An...
View ArticleA Novel iTunes Exploit
Brought to us by Randal Monroe of xkcd: Also, you much check this one out both for its mention of Python and the Asus EEE PC. Related posts: Godwin’s Law Philosophizing on the Move can lead to trouble...
View ArticleCode Monkey
This song is awesome and, best of all, it’s been released under a Creative Commons license, so I can share it with you all without fear of the RIAA breathing down my neck! I first heard Code Monkey on...
View ArticleGnome Music Player Showdown
I’ve been reading a lot of reviews recently about the upcoming Banshee 1.0. (Arstechnica and Linux Magazine, for example) It looks like it’s going to be an awesome release, but I wanted to see where...
View ArticleWhy there are over 2 dozen music players
People often groan when they hear of someone making another game of Tetris, Window Manager, or audio program. After all, people ask, “Do we really need another? Why can’t you just contribute to...
View Article365 Graph
Today I worked on a python program to create a graph of the views of all my photos in my 365 Project set. Here’s the result: (click for full size) 365 Project Views Graph I was curious how they...
View ArticleProgramming to the Rescue: Amortization Automation
What I love about programming is the instant feedback. In most programming languages, after you set up a framework for the barest bones of a program you can then run it at every step of the way to...
View ArticleAutomatically Posting your Top 3 Artists from Last.fm onto Twitter (with...
I wrote this code a while back because a website that does the same thing seemed to miss my posts every other week. So I figured I’d write my own in python to do the same thing to me. Then I just put...
View ArticleDeveloping my first plamoid Part 2
OK, so it’s been a year since I last blogged about working on this program. I tried working on the data engine in August and then got stuck right around the time I started my first semester of grad...
View ArticleDeveloping my first plasmoid: The Data Engine (in python)
I figured it’d be neat to show you how my plasmoid works so you could use it when developing your own plasmoids. Here’s the main.py of my data engine. The indentation is off, in case you try to copy...
View ArticleDeveloping My First Plasmoid: The QML Code
Back in February I posted the code to the data engine I developed for my plastmoid. At the time I’d wanted to clean up my plasmoid before posting it on here, however, I’ve become stuck on a key...
View ArticleMy Second Ever Useful GUI Program
A while ago I wrote about my first ever useful GUI program. And in one of the series of posts that followed I explained that the reason I hadn’t made a useful GUI program before now is because all the...
View ArticleCreating Nice-Looking Buttons in QML on KDE
Back in October I created a GUI for my Python amortization table program. One of the things I lamented was that the buttons in QML look like crap. I want my buttons to look like buttons, not blue...
View ArticleExploring btrfs for backups Part 2: Installing on My /Home Directory and...
I got my new hard drive that would replace my old, aging /home hard drive. As you read in part 1, I wanted to put btrfs on it. This is my journey to get it up and running. Plugged it into my hard drive...
View ArticleExploring btrfs for backups Part 3: The Script in Practice
Night of the second day: # btrfs sub list /home ID 275 gen 3201 top level 5 path home ID 1021 gen 3193 top level 275 path .snapshots ID 1023 gen 1653 top level 275 path .snapshots/2014-03-13-2146 ID...
View ArticleMy Latest Procedural Art
More math-based art, but I really like how this came out a LOT better than my experiment with Fibonacci. Check them out! A really tight Archemedean Spiral featuring my photos tagged with Cornell An...
View ArticleA Novel iTunes Exploit
Brought to us by Randal Monroe of xkcd: Also, you much check this one out both for its mention of Python and the Asus EEE PC. Related posts: Godwin’s Law Philosophizing on the Move can lead to trouble...
View ArticleCode Monkey
This song is awesome and, best of all, it’s been released under a Creative Commons license, so I can share it with you all without fear of the RIAA breathing down my neck! I first heard Code Monkey on...
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