Browser Games with Django (English)

Friday, July 18 2008

Just looking through DjangoSites.org and Googling around, I’m absolutely puzzled by the lack of Django-based browser games. It is such an idea platform for developing these, yet there are only a few that are actually open to the public (some of which aren’t in English, and are ...

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Multi-Model Inheritance + Fixtures = Fixed

Monday, June 09 2008

I just thought I’d take a moment to give everyone a heads up that Multi-Model Inheritance fixture dumping and loading is now fixed, as per Russ Magee’s changeset 7600. This fixes a subtle problem that some of you may have seen in the form of foreign keys pointing ...

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Adobe Illustrator CS3 Crashing on Saving

Wednesday, April 30 2008

After trying to figure out why Illustrator CS3 kept crashing when saving files, I finally turned up this bit of information that pointed me in the right direction. It looks like if you have your Print Spooler service on Windows XP disabled when attempting to save, Illustrator dies.

One of ...

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wxJSON 0.3.1 Released

Wednesday, March 12 2008

wxJSON 0.3.1 has been released, addressing an issue with wxJSONReader::ReadString(). I haven’t had a chance to check the new version out yet, but it’s definitely worth grabbing if you’re using 0.3.0 or earlier.

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Sunday, March 09 2008

Django is able to run on a number of different web servers, databases, and operating systems. This flexibility lends itself to a lot of diversity within the community, but what kind of combinations are the most common?

The developers seem to suggest that Apache2 + mod_python + Postgresql seem to be the ...

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wxJSON 0.3.0 Released

Saturday, March 08 2008

Version 0.3.0 of wxJSON has been released. The important feature this brings about is Unicode support (for those who have been waiting for it). From what I can tell, the release doesn’t add or improve anything else.

wxJSON is a JSON writer/reader for wxWidgets, a great ...

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Color Error Threshold Calculator (pt. 2)

Wednesday, March 05 2008

As promised, I’ve got an update about the Color Error Threshold Calculator. The utility is now in good enough shape to be posted along with the article about it that I recently finished for our TAGA chapter at Clemson.

For those that have no earthly idea what this is ...

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Whoops! and the importance of Sites

Wednesday, March 05 2008

For those reading along elsewhere, I apologize for the incorrect domain on the feed up until now. I forgot to set my Site’s domain within the admin interface, meaning everything syndicated pointed to example.com. This has been fixed and won’t be an issue in the future. Sorry ...

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Django and wxWidgets: A match made in heaven

Wednesday, March 05 2008

During the design phase for a color accuracy management system, my company decided to go with a client-server model rather than individual workstations that are more or less independent. The central server would be responsible for recording readings from the clients and doing various calculations on the data. We wanted ...

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Guitar Hero with a Real Guitar?

Thursday, February 07 2008

It was only a matter of time before work started on something like Guitar Hero that uses a real guitar as a “controller.” Guitar Rising by GameTank, Inc. is looking very interesting. Instead of using a little plastic, five-button controller, plug in your guitar of choice and get to it ...

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