Archive for the 'work' Category

demangling ‘property’ values

Tuesday, May 10th, 2005

I’m learning more about how properties work in Python. One thing I’m learning is that a property objects are only evaluated in the context of the parent object they’re attached to.

After my last property trick, I now needed a way to manage groups of color tints. After thinking about it for a while, I […]

cool python tricks

Tuesday, April 26th, 2005

Man I love Python. I came up with a neat trick yesterday that also couldn’t be done in any static language. Needless to say, I’m pretty pleased with myself. This trick isn’t slow or hard to understand, and actually makes a lot of my code very simple, and avoids a lot of boilerplate that I […]

How python can be fast

Thursday, April 14th, 2005

So now that I’ve been working with python for a good 3-4 months, I’m starting to understand why people like it so much.. a bit part of it is that its just so damn simple. Its so easy to write code that works very quickly. The syntax is very elegant and easy to read. I’ve […]

Chandler

Wednesday, April 13th, 2005

So where have I been? On January 10th of this year, I started working at the Open Source Applications Foundation. (http://www.osafoundation.org/) Its been quite an experience, and maybe I’ll actually start posting about THAT since I don’t seem to post about anything else here.