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March 2006



Howto create a basic screencast with Linux

2006.03.31 Fri 12:04 A GMT-07
Learn with me as I experiment with pyvnc2swf. Hopefully I'll have a short series of howtos on creating a screencast (including mixing sound and that sort of fun stuff). First you'll need a few things for a basic (soundless) screencast: vnc pyvn
Category: python linux open source
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JSON-RPC python client code

2006.03.27 Mon 1:10 P GMT-07
Like Duncan, I've also been messing around with JSON-RPC lately. I'm got most of a WSGI implementation done and a python client library done. I have an article describing the client code here. For pythoneers, I've got a question: This code is
Category: python open source ajax
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Theory vs practicality

2006.03.23 Thu 1:07 P GMT-07
I read an interesting article by Gurdy Leet, an art professor, who migrated from closed source tools to open source tools (and operating systems). They moved from MacOSX with AdobeCS to Ubuntu (ppc) with Gimp, inkscape, scribus. Perhaps just as
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Uniden and the disposable phone (TRU-8885-2)

2006.03.15 Wed 12:10 A GMT-07
My wife or I have recently had the experience of interacting with the customer service folks of 3 different companies. I'd like to share my experiences here for a few reasons: 1. To draw attention (both good and bad) to the companies treatment of
Category: python
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