Psychic Origami

When Jeremy talked about Huffduffer at March's £5app he revealed that pretty much every page in Huffduffer had a RSS/JSON/XML version. A couple of weeks back, I asked whether Huffduffer supported JSONP. After a quick reply back from Jeremy that it wasn't, there was another reply within an …

This is probably my first attempt at "literary programming", though using that phrase may be taking liberties a little. In this case by "literary programming" I mean - programming inspired by literature. The literature in question is Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson. Cryptonomicon already features a Perl script in it's pages, but …

The next Brighton and Hove Python User Meet will be the 18th of February 2009 at the [STRIKEOUT:Hampton Arms] Farm Tavern. As per usual we'll be sharing the venue with the Farm. Now that there's a google group setup for these meets they might happen a bit more often …

After managing to organise two previous Python meetups and failing to organise many more it seemed like a good time to set-up mailing list of some sort so that things can self-organise a bit more. So please sign-up for the Brighton and Hove Python User Group Google Group (BHPUGGG) and …

I ordered one of the new metal Macbooks on the night they came out. So far it's been a great machine, but there has been one minor problem - it's a different size to my old 12" Powerbook. So obviously my old crumpler laptop case was going to be no use …

So after writing a 5K Twitter Client, a 5K TODO app and a 5K Fullscreen Text Editor I thought that'd be enough example apps to get things started. However while adding a list of app ideas to the 5K App page I suddenly decide that one of the ideas really …

It occurred to me that I didn't really go into much detail about the local storage part of my 5K TODO app. It's quite a neat piece of tech and because it works in Safari it also works on the iPhone. That obviously means you can use javascript+local storage …

After a 5K Java Twitter client and a 5K Javascript TODO list app, the next example 5K App is a wxPython fullscreen text editor. Much like Writeroom and Duncan's JDarkroom (both of which are more fully featured) it lets you edit text files in "distraction-free" fullscreen. Ideal for creative writing …

So far for the 5K App I've written two example apps - one in Java and one in Javascript. This is partly so that I can figure out how the rules for the competition will need to work. In a lot of 4K competitions a single language is chosen, so things …

More 5K App preparations. After using Java to write a 5K Twitter Client it's time to change languages and dive into some Javascript. So the next 5K app is a TODO list app (a bit like 37Signals Ta-da List). The app runs locally in a browser that support the local …