<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" version="2.0"><channel><title>Latest entries from panela.blog-city.com</title><link>http://panela.blog-city.com/</link><description></description><copyright>Copyright 2008 panela.blog-city.com</copyright><generator></generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 03:00:00 GMT</lastBuildDate><image><title>Latest entries from panela.blog-city.com</title><url>http://server1.blog-city.com/images/bc_v5_logo_small.gif</url><link>http://panela.blog-city.com/</link></image><ttl>360</ttl><docs>http://backend.userland.com/rss</docs><item><title>Why doesn&apos;t pushd popd work in my Ubuntu shell script?</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://panela.blog-city.com/why_doesnt_pushd_popd_work_in_my_ubuntu_shell_script.htm</guid><link>http://panela.blog-city.com/why_doesnt_pushd_popd_work_in_my_ubuntu_shell_script.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 04:42:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://panela.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=why%5Fdoesnt%5Fpushd%5Fpopd%5Fwork%5Fin%5Fmy%5Fubuntu%5Fshell%5Fscript</comments><dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I'm in the process of moving over to my new laptop.  I run into an issue where a shell script (that worked under gentoo) now no longer works.
Here's the error

foo.sh: 18: pushd: not found

Since I'm running this as sh foo.sh, I turn on debugging wit]]></description><category>bash</category><category>dash</category><category>sh</category><category>ubuntu</category><category>gentoo</category><category>popd</category><category>pushd</category></item><item><title>New lappy, Lenovo T61p (linux edition)</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://panela.blog-city.com/new_lappy_lenovo_t61p_linux_edition.htm</guid><link>http://panela.blog-city.com/new_lappy_lenovo_t61p_linux_edition.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 04:30:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://panela.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=new%5Flappy%5Flenovo%5Ft61p%5Flinux%5Fedition</comments><dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[My trusty r52 switches between a state of 100-200 free megs of memory and no memory on the 40 gig hard drive.  Rather than investing in an expensive IBM harddrive (I've heard the BIOS on my machine won't take normal OEM drives), I got a new computer.]]></description><category>ubuntu</category><category>gentoo</category><category>lenovo</category><category>thinkpad</category><category>t61p</category></item><item><title>pyExcelerator (xlwt) cheatsheet (create native Excel from pure python)</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://panela.blog-city.com/pyexcelerator_xlwt_cheatsheet_create_native_excel_from_pu.htm</guid><link>http://panela.blog-city.com/pyexcelerator_xlwt_cheatsheet_create_native_excel_from_pu.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 27 Apr 2008 06:37:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://panela.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=pyexcelerator%5Fxlwt%5Fcheatsheet%5Fcreate%5Fnative%5Fexcel%5Ffrom%5Fpu</comments><dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[If you are looking to generate/create/write (but not read) excel spreadsheets from native python (read on linux or macos or even Windows!), then xlwt (a fork of pyExcelerator) is your friend.  This library, (and the ancestor) is somewhat unknown, but]]></description><category>python</category><category>xlwt</category><category>pyexcelerator</category><category>cheatsheet</category></item><item><title>Lasers/Wiimotes/Python presentation at Utah Code Camp</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://panela.blog-city.com/laserswiimotespython_presentation_at_utah_code_camp.htm</guid><link>http://panela.blog-city.com/laserswiimotespython_presentation_at_utah_code_camp.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2008 15:19:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://panela.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=laserswiimotespython%5Fpresentation%5Fat%5Futah%5Fcode%5Fcamp</comments><dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[For those in the Utah vicinity, and who want to see a cool presentation about python, wiimotes and lasers (or who really like MS products, since most sessions seem dedicated to that), my brother is presenting at Utah Code Camp.  It should be a little]]></description><category>python</category><category>codecamp</category><category>wiimote</category><category>pygame</category><category>pyglet</category><category>isight</category><category>webcam</category></item><item><title>[Pycon 2008] Lasers, Webcams, Wiimotes and Python Video up</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://panela.blog-city.com/pycon_2008_lasers_webcams_wiimotes_and_python_video_up.htm</guid><link>http://panela.blog-city.com/pycon_2008_lasers_webcams_wiimotes_and_python_video_up.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2008 15:15:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://panela.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=pycon%5F2008%5Flasers%5Fwebcams%5Fwiimotes%5Fand%5Fpython%5Fvideo%5Fup</comments><dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[My brother gave a talk about using python to detect lasers with webcams and also demo'd a prototype of a 3d game with wiimote headtracking.   For those who missed the preso, there's now a video up.

	

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.fl]]></description><category>wiimote</category><category>python</category><category>pycon</category><category>video</category><category>laser</category><category>numpy</category><category>pyglet</category><category>pygame</category></item><item><title>GSOC Project for Branch Coverage reporting for Python</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://panela.blog-city.com/gsoc_project_for_branch_coverage_reporting_for_python.htm</guid><link>http://panela.blog-city.com/gsoc_project_for_branch_coverage_reporting_for_python.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2008 19:43:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://panela.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=gsoc%5Fproject%5Ffor%5Fbranch%5Fcoverage%5Freporting%5Ffor%5Fpython</comments><dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[As there appears to be some interest in branch coverage and the cool testing/metrics/quality tools that can be built upon it, I've proposed a GSOC project to start the ball rolling.  (I assume it will start rolling either way, but allowing someone to]]></description><category>branch coverage</category><category>gsoc</category><category>python</category><category>coveragepy</category><category>figleaf</category><category>complexity</category><category>mccabe</category></item><item><title>iSight?  We don&apos;t need no stinking iSight</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://panela.blog-city.com/isight__we_dont_need_no_stinking_isight.htm</guid><link>http://panela.blog-city.com/isight__we_dont_need_no_stinking_isight.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 25 Mar 2008 16:41:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://panela.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=isight%5F%5Fwe%5Fdont%5Fneed%5Fno%5Fstinking%5Fisight</comments><dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[My brother and I have put up a blog discussing our messings with lasers, webcams, wiimotes and python.  If you saw his talk at Pycon, and want to play with the code, you can find it there.  I recently made the laser stuff work in Linux (hence the tit]]></description><category>laser</category><category>isight</category><category>linux</category><category>python</category><category>pygame</category><category>numpy</category><category>webcam</category></item><item><title>Undeleting photos on (gentoo) linux/windows/mac</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://panela.blog-city.com/undeleting_photos_on_gentoo_linuxwindowsmac.htm</guid><link>http://panela.blog-city.com/undeleting_photos_on_gentoo_linuxwindowsmac.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2008 22:54:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://panela.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=undeleting%5Fphotos%5Fon%5Fgentoo%5Flinuxwindowsmac</comments><dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[This post is preceded by a public service announcement to back up all important data, often.  (So far it seems the best way to back up photos is to get them printed/developed).
Had a scare with a half gig compact flash card acting up on me, that cont]]></description><category>undelete</category><category>photos</category><category>linux</category><category>photorec</category><category>fat16</category><category>gentoo</category></item><item><title>[Pycon 2008] Linky linky</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://panela.blog-city.com/pycon_2008_linky_linky.htm</guid><link>http://panela.blog-city.com/pycon_2008_linky_linky.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 21 Mar 2008 17:20:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://panela.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=pycon%5F2008%5Flinky%5Flinky</comments><dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Here's my notes on Pycon this year. I'm going to throw out a collection of links that may or
may not be useful to you.  If you weren't able to make the conference, hopefully this list contains a link or two that are new or interesting to you.


elast]]></description><category>python</category><category>pycon</category><category>pycon2008</category><category>ec2</category><category>pyke</category><category>gdata</category><category>s3</category><category>trestle</category><category>thrift</category><category>metaweb</category><category>ella</category><category>argparse</category><category>orbited</category><category>pystage</category><category>traits</category><category>fivedash</category><category>geopy</category><category>geodjango</category><category>tgppl</category><category>pyprocessing</category></item><item><title>[Pycon 2008] Thoughts and Observations</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://panela.blog-city.com/pyxon_2008_thoughts_and_observations.htm</guid><link>http://panela.blog-city.com/pyxon_2008_thoughts_and_observations.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2008 06:22:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://panela.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=pyxon%5F2008%5Fthoughts%5Fand%5Fobservations</comments><dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Here's my thoughts regarding Pycon 2008.

Benefits of conference attending


Face time with virtual friends - Some people/IT shops invest in
established technology provided by big vendors.  I've been
somewhat disenchanted by the products (and underly]]></description><category>pycon</category><category>pycon2008</category><category>suggestions</category></item><item><title>[Pycon 2008] Managing complexity slides</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://panela.blog-city.com/pycon_2008_managing_complexity_slides.htm</guid><link>http://panela.blog-city.com/pycon_2008_managing_complexity_slides.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 15 Mar 2008 20:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://panela.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=pycon%5F2008%5Fmanaging%5Fcomplexity%5Fslides</comments><dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Pycon has been real fun so far.  The slides from my talk, Managing Complexity can be found here (complexitypycon2008.pdf).
Will try and post thoughts and links thus far sooner (or later).]]></description><category>pycon</category><category>pycon2008</category><category>complexity</category><category>mccabe</category></item><item><title>Ask Matt: Java, PHP or Python for beginning web development?</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://panela.blog-city.com/ask_matt_java_php_or_python_for_beginning_web_development.htm</guid><link>http://panela.blog-city.com/ask_matt_java_php_or_python_for_beginning_web_development.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2008 23:33:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://panela.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=ask%5Fmatt%5Fjava%5Fphp%5For%5Fpython%5Ffor%5Fbeginning%5Fweb%5Fdevelopment</comments><dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I recently received the email below.  At the risk of starting a flame war, I'm posting my response here.

Hi Matthew,
Sorry to bug you, but I was reading your blog and was hoping you could help me with some advice. I am new to programming and can't q]]></description><category>php</category><category>java</category><category>struts</category><category>django</category><category>pylons</category><category>python</category><category>emacs</category><category>eclipse</category><category>static typing</category><category>webdev</category></item><item><title>Fun with YUI, IE and JavaScript</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://panela.blog-city.com/fun_with_yui_ie_and_javascript.htm</guid><link>http://panela.blog-city.com/fun_with_yui_ie_and_javascript.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 29 Feb 2008 17:58:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://panela.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=fun%5Fwith%5Fyui%5Fie%5Fand%5Fjavascript</comments><dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I still develop JS in basically the same way I did back in 2001.  Back then IE had more of a stranglehold on the browser market, but it was a horrible JS development environment.  So one would use Mozilla with the Venkman debugger to make things a li]]></description><category>yui</category><category>javascript</category><category>ajax</category><category>selectadd</category><category>ie</category><category>firefox</category></item><item><title>Slides for Feb 2008 Utah Python Meeting</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://panela.blog-city.com/slides_for_feb_2008_utah_python_meeting.htm</guid><link>http://panela.blog-city.com/slides_for_feb_2008_utah_python_meeting.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2008 18:46:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://panela.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=slides%5Ffor%5Ffeb%5F2008%5Futah%5Fpython%5Fmeeting</comments><dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[My brother is presenting tonight about his experiences with Lasers, Webcams and Python.  Here's the slides (OOo format).]]></description><category>python</category><category>macos</category><category>laser</category><category>isight</category></item><item><title>Replacing a window regulator in 2001 Honda Odyssey</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://panela.blog-city.com/replacing_a_window_regulator_in_2001_honda_odyssey.htm</guid><link>http://panela.blog-city.com/replacing_a_window_regulator_in_2001_honda_odyssey.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 08 Jan 2008 18:17:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://panela.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=replacing%5Fa%5Fwindow%5Fregulator%5Fin%5F2001%5Fhonda%5Fodyssey</comments><dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Yes, I'm a ricer, I run gentoo and drive a civic.  I'm going to explain how to take apart your door and replace your speaker with something that booms....  Acutally, this is a public service blog entry.  I'm going to talk about removing the door trim]]></description></item><item><title>The good and bad of Asus EEE</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://panela.blog-city.com/the_good_and_bad_of_asus_eee.htm</guid><link>http://panela.blog-city.com/the_good_and_bad_of_asus_eee.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:54:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://panela.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=the%5Fgood%5Fand%5Fbad%5Fof%5Fasus%5Feee</comments><dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Like many other nerds, my wife got an Asus EEE for Christmas.  (ok she isn't a nerd but her husband is).  (Ok, maybe she is a nerd since I've been forcing her to using Linux for so long that she doesn't mind too much anymore).
The machine is solidly]]></description><category>ubuntu</category><category>asus</category><category>eee</category></item><item><title>Memory profiling of python apps</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://panela.blog-city.com/memory_profiling_of_python_apps.htm</guid><link>http://panela.blog-city.com/memory_profiling_of_python_apps.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 29 Nov 2007 17:27:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://panela.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=memory%5Fprofiling%5Fof%5Fpython%5Fapps</comments><dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A much as some gnomers don't like python ;), there's some good stuff coming from those that do.  Andy Wingo writes of his work to reduce the memory footprint of the Flumotion Media Server.  It is linux specific (and somewhat gnome/gtk specific), but]]></description><category>python</category><category>profile</category><category>memory</category><category>massif</category></item><item><title>MonetDB and SQLAlchemy</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://panela.blog-city.com/monetdb_and_sqlalchemy.htm</guid><link>http://panela.blog-city.com/monetdb_and_sqlalchemy.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2007 00:33:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://panela.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=monetdb%5Fand%5Fsqlalchemy</comments><dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I've spent the past days starting a MonetDB backend for SQLAlchemy.  My code is currently attached to ticket 874. We're already using SA to pull data from a proprietary db and are hoping that we can streamline some queries using MonetDB.  MonetDB is]]></description><category>python</category><category>sqlalchemy</category><category>monetdb</category><category>columnorienteddb</category></item><item><title>Reinteract - nifty (editable) python shell</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://panela.blog-city.com/reinteract__nifty_editable_python_shell.htm</guid><link>http://panela.blog-city.com/reinteract__nifty_editable_python_shell.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 Nov 2007 17:55:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://panela.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=reinteract%5F%5Fnifty%5Feditable%5Fpython%5Fshell</comments><dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Just watched the screencast here about Owen Taylors improved shell.  Nothing revolutionary per se, but it just looks more beginner friendly (ie you can go and edit existing expressions, rather than using shell history).  Kinda reminds me of the only]]></description><category>python</category><category>reinteract</category><category>mathlab</category></item><item><title>Intro to python testing talk (unittest, doctest, coverage)</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://panela.blog-city.com/intro_to_python_testing_talk_unittest_doctest_coverage.htm</guid><link>http://panela.blog-city.com/intro_to_python_testing_talk_unittest_doctest_coverage.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 07 Nov 2007 19:06:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://panela.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=intro%5Fto%5Fpython%5Ftesting%5Ftalk%5Funittest%5Fdoctest%5Fcoverage</comments><dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I'm giving an introductory talk on testing tomorrow for Utah Python.  I'm planning to cover unittest, doctest, coverage and interpreting coverage results.  At the end will be a hands on session for applying what we've learned.  We'll write a simple p]]></description><category>testing</category><category>python</category><category>unittest</category><category>doctest</category><category>coverage</category><category>figleaf</category><category>pymetrics</category></item><item><title>Mono, Miguel and Matt Asay</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://panela.blog-city.com/mono_miguel_and_matt_asay.htm</guid><link>http://panela.blog-city.com/mono_miguel_and_matt_asay.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 02 Nov 2007 21:43:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://panela.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=mono%5Fmiguel%5Fand%5Fmatt%5Fasay</comments><dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[As long as biased people are commenting on Matt's pining for a more
innovative Miguel, I thought I'd throw in my two cents.  I'm certainly
biased* and have my opinions as well.
So yes, Matt made a technical faux paus in pleading with Miguel to
devel]]></description><category>gnome</category><category>mono</category><category>asay</category><category>ms</category><category>miguel</category></item><item><title>Laser guns, webcams, marshmellows, python and Halloween!</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://panela.blog-city.com/laser_guns_webcams_marshmellows_python_and_halloween.htm</guid><link>http://panela.blog-city.com/laser_guns_webcams_marshmellows_python_and_halloween.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 02 Nov 2007 04:28:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://panela.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=laser%5Fguns%5Fwebcams%5Fmarshmellows%5Fpython%5Fand%5Fhalloween</comments><dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[My brother is the archetype of a hacker.  We wasted many hours learning basic on
 the c64 back in the day.  He used to hook up old monochrome apple
monitors to stereo output and achieve some really cool visualizations.  (Ben
Harper's Opression is pro]]></description><category>pysight</category><category>laser</category><category>macbookpro</category><category>python</category><category>isight</category></item><item><title>Gnome devs too lazy for python?</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://panela.blog-city.com/gnome_devs_too_lazy_for_python.htm</guid><link>http://panela.blog-city.com/gnome_devs_too_lazy_for_python.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2007 20:09:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://panela.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=gnome%5Fdevs%5Ftoo%5Flazy%5Ffor%5Fpython</comments><dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Some interesting thoughts about testing and python found among gnome developers.  Joe Shaw was explaining how most new gnome apps these days are written in either python or C#.  They choose C# for their app (a href="http://www.beagle-project.org/"&gt]]></description><category>beagle</category><category>gnome</category><category>python</category><category>mono</category><category>static typing</category><category>testing</category></item><item><title>of OpenOffice, Symphony, KOffice, rst and python</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://panela.blog-city.com/of_openoffice_symphony_koffice_rst_and_python.htm</guid><link>http://panela.blog-city.com/of_openoffice_symphony_koffice_rst_and_python.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 11 Oct 2007 19:13:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://panela.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=of%5Fopenoffice%5Fsymphony%5Fkoffice%5Frst%5Fand%5Fpython</comments><dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Just a few (rambling) thoughts on OpenOffice I've been having as of late.  My daughter just started Kindergarten and my wife is now caught up in the PTA.  So unlike the tech world, which tends to revolve around excel spreadsheets, the PTA revolves ar]]></description><category>ooo</category><category>openoffice</category><category>odt</category><category>koffice</category><category>kword</category><category>python</category><category>rst2odt</category></item><item><title>Slicing web pages with inkscape (and python)</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://panela.blog-city.com/slicing_web_pages_with_inkscape_and_python.htm</guid><link>http://panela.blog-city.com/slicing_web_pages_with_inkscape_and_python.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Sep 2007 16:52:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://panela.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=slicing%5Fweb%5Fpages%5Fwith%5Finkscape%5Fand%5Fpython</comments><dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Using the plugin
Was watching this video describing how to "slice" web page designs two days ago and it inspired me.  After a tiny bit of digging I found that one can easily script inkscape using python.  
Here's the process I've used for slicing web]]></description><category>python</category><category>inkscape</category><category>gentoo</category><category>web</category><category>slicing</category></item></channel></rss>