Website Up

The site is up, all I need now is content. I'll be right back.

PyGTK

First pyGTK app with glade! Huzzah!

Memo to self: Put some screenshots up.

Web Design

Design of the new site is steaming along, even though I am stuck away from my computer for 2 weeks. I've almost finalized the CSS, and the home page checks out with the W3C to 100% compliant XHTML 1.0 Strict. The whole thing is coded in Arachnophilia, which(despite its lack of WYSIWYG capabilites) is a very nice editor, although I am thinking of moving development over to a WYSIWYG program. So far my choices are as such:

Microsoft Visual Web Developer Express - Despite what people say, this is actually quite a good program. It breaks some standards, but that's forgiveable(it's the Trident engine).

MS Expression Web - This seems to be Frontpage on steroids. It certainly looks cool, and the rendering engine is more standards-compliant.

Quanta Plus - Awesome, but only works on linux. and I don't feel like running it inside my virtual machine.

I'm looking through some more as I type, so this post will be edited. Cheers!

Some new internet libraries python could do with

As a complement to the current protocol libraries(urllib, urllib2, httplib, ftplib, gopherlib, poplib, imaplib, nntplib, smtplib, telnetlib), the next edition of Python (whatever Guido's calling it) would be neat with these here modules inbuilt:

chatlib - A multi-purpose handler for most IM formats, like AIM, MSN, Jabber, IRC, Google Talk, etc.

sshlib - As if I needed to explain this one. ssh2lib would also be an option for ssh2.

fingerlib - An interface to the finger protocol. Cool but useless. But cool.

phpparse - PHP parser. Not a protocol, but it would be useful.

ping - ICMP echo request libraries. Needed. Seriously.

Well, that's all I can think of at the moment. Cheers.

Hello from Broome!

I'm currently blogging this from sunny Broome, Western Australia. Being above the Tropic of Capricorn, it is *hot* here. Actually, it isn't really.

Here, the temperature during the night is warm, during the morning is warmer, during the afternoon is very warm, and during the evening is warm. The most humidity is during the morning(which is funny, because I'd expect it to be in the afternoon.).

Broome is like caffeine in several ways. As in:

Broome: Is addictive.

Caffeine: May or may not be addictive.

Broome: Makes you hyper.

Caffeine: Makes you hyper.

Broome: You get withdrawal symptoms when you leave.

Caffeine: Some people get withdrawal symptoms when they stop.

In the meantime, however, I'm reading "The Navigator" by Clive Cussler. Oh yes, and I'm working on the CSS and design for my website-to-be.

Python System Calls

This should definitely be implemented:

import syscall

term = syscall.stdin()

term.write("ls /usr/bin")
#output dumped

Russian Matrix Goggles

I seriously want a pair of these.