Python

Sometimes things are simple

So we’ve got that awesome Hudson server, checking out our projects at each commit, running all the tests and reporting on the outcome. That way we always know when something broke, what, and which committer just fell out of his Ballmer peak.

Plupload is a reusable component which fully takes advantage of the file upload capabilities of your browser and its plugins. It will use HTML5, Flash and Google Gears if they are available, but otherwise, it can gracefully degrade down to HTML4 it it needs to. Here's how it can be integrated within a Django web application.

This is part 1 of my March 9th 2011 Confoo presentation. Refer to the Table of Contents for the other parts.

This is a meta-presentation. It's a presentation of the tools and things I've used to build and perform the actual presentation I gave. It is not directly related to Pyramid or Python.

This is part 6 of my March 9th 2011 Confoo presentation. Refer to the Table of Contents for the other parts.

The original announcement for my Confoo presentation was to use RabbitMQ to do real-time communications, but then, after finding a way to use Redis to do it, I found it was simpler and more straight-forward for a live demo.

pWhat a weekend! This Saturday, 60 hackers, including myself got a pretty unique opportunity. We were given a cluster of 100 machines, 400 cores, to do with what we please. /p
pThe event is called a title="HackReduce" target="_blank" href="http://www.hackreduce.org/"HackReduce/a, the goal was simply to give large amounts of computational power to whoever wanted it for a day.

This is part 5 of my March 9th 2011 Confoo presentation. Refer to the Table of Contents for the other parts.

This is part 4 of my March 9th 2011 Confoo presentation. Refer to the Table of Contents for the other parts.

I've been fiddling with one of my Wiimotes tonight to try and get it to control Rhythmbox. Turns out it's actually really easy! You can do it via the cwiid library for Python, and with a Rhythmbox plugin.br /
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For this to work, you need a Wiimote and some sort of Bluetooth device for your computer that works with Ubuntu.

This is part 3 of my March 9th 2011 Confoo presentation. Refer to the Table of Contents for the other parts.

FFmpeg encoding of an uploaded video file

In this part, we will create a drag'n'drop frame to upload a video file we've encoded with a phone, and have it transcoded server-side in WebM. This way we'll be able to read it back in the browser.

This is part 2 of my March 9th 2011 Confoo presentation. Refer to the Table of Contents for the other parts.

Pyramid installation

Setup of the "Foo" pyramid application

We'll install those packages: