Category: Programming

Python

django-admin.py patch to add warning for missing “startproject” subcommand.

A while back, I mentioned that django-admin.py will not show the "startproject" command if you have a DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE environment variable set. This behavior is documented, but it can still confuse the heck out of anyone...

iPhoneProgramming

The quest for a better UIAlertView

One of the things that has annoyed me while developing my iPhone game "Wordly" are dialogs that appear modal to the user, but are non-blocking from the programmer perspective. For example, let's take UIAlertView. You tell a...

iPhoneMacProgramming

Xcode/iPhone error 0xE8000001: problem and fix

As you all probably know, I've written a word game for the iPhone called Word Up! <shameless-plug> </shameless-plug> Tonight, I started getting an error while trying to run my app from Xcode on my device (provisioned...

ProgrammingPython

Python ternary operator

Today's Python discovery: Python doesn't have the C style ?: ternary operator (e.g.: cond ? valueIfTrue : valueIfFalse). But as of Python 2.5 it has a ternary operator with its own syntax: value_when_true if condition else...

C++Programming

SD West 2008

This week I'm at SD West 2008. I'm hoping to learn a few things about C++, especially C++0x and Boost.

Programming

Setuid demystified

Interesting that the Unix calls for setting user ids of processes are so varied and so complex, that they warranted an entire paper. I only skimmed, but I did get a pretty good description of the "saved uid" parameter of the...

ProgrammingPythonTiVo

TiVo HME SDK for Python

Just stumbled up on this (via TiVoBlog who in turn found it via TiVo Lovers) and will have to give it a try sometime: From TiVo HME SDK for Python: An implementation of TiVoâ€™s HME (Home Media Extensions) protocol for...