making apps, making webs.

hellos, http://rene.f0o.com/~rene/stuff/europython2007/website_batching/ Here's my paper and code for combining multiple images - and other things.

Here's my Multiple CPU paper I am presenting tomorrow morning at europython. The pdf on the europython website is a bit old. Hope to see you there! ... if you're not too hung over. Abstract: Taking advantage of multiple CPUs for games --- simply, is the topic of this paper. Using a simple interface that many are already familiar with --- Pythons 'map' function. It talks about how to avoid the Global Interpreter Lock (GIL) limitation in Pythons threading libraries. As well as how to choose which parts of a game to thread. Finally it shows how easy it can be, by converting a full pygame to make use of multiple CPUs --- and benchmarking the game.

This talk was about Python on Nokia s60 phones. These are my notes... Discusses implementation details - like what they had to change to get it working nicely. He also discussed what you can do with the phone - which turns out to be most things. Like accessing the camera, and sending/receiving sms. It's based on python 2.2, but has had some things back ported. Like the pymalloc. He said at some point they might update the python to a newer version. The schedule is 'The future - a closer future than before.'. Then of course before that he said 'the future is now' - probably those two statements aren't related, and were taken out of context. Including not using writable static data, and the modifying interpreter for the security model on the phone. The security model includes using capabilities, and signing executables. There are different levels of signing certificates. The basic ones are free, but others require contracts and money. By default as python...

Hellos, I'm sitting at my hostel in Vilnius preparing for my presentations. I've managed to get wireless internet working from windows here, but for some reason my linux doesn't like this particular access point. After a marathon 38ish hour journey I arrived at almost midnight, then fell asleep. I spent half the day today wandering around the old town looking at things. I'm looking forward to when the conference starts. Should be good to meet everyone, and see what everyone is up to. Here's some pictures from my adventures in old town today...