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Flying High: OpenGL from Python, Part 2

This is second in a series of articles about algorithmically generating geometry to drive OpenGL from Python. << Back to part 1 Last time we got as far as creating some instances of our super-simple Shape class, and having Glyph and Render classes convert those to arrays for OpenGL and render them. This time, we [...]

Flying High: Hobbyist OpenGL from Python

This is a transcript-from-memory (what I wish I’d said) of the talk I just gave at EuroPython 2010, for which I owe a debt of gratitude to Richard Jones for his last-minute moral support while wrestling with projectors and refresh rates; and to the whole team of hard-working volunteers, especially John Pinner & Richard Taylor, [...]

Pumping Iron : Dynamic Languages on .Net

This is the talk I gave at the Øredev conference last week in Malmö, Sweden. I was stepping in to speak for Harry Pierson of Microsoft, and although I mixed in content to make it my own, all the credit for the best bits and the overall gist of it belongs to Harry, while any [...]

Stretching pyglet’s Wings

I’m excited to be giving a talk at PyCon UK next weekend about creating OpenGL programs in Python, using the graphics and games library pyglet. I’m still working feverishly on the presentation. This post is to be a permanent URL for the content, downloadable demos and YOUR comments, once PyCon is over. See y’all there. [...]

IronPython at Resolver Systems

I wrote a little blurb about why we at Resolver Systems like Python, and specifically IronPython. It’s up on Pythonology.org’s “Python success Stories” section, and will also propagate to wingware.com and python.org. http://pythonology.org/success&story=resolver

PyCon 2008, Chicago, USA

PyCon 2008 has been absolutely amazing this week. The talks I’ve seen and the people I’ve met have been a real inspiration, and my head is a-whirl with ideas. Above all, as always, I’m impressed by the Python community’s genuine warmth. Maybe it’s just a function of Python being relatively small compared to some other [...]

Studencki Festiwal Informatyczny 2008

I had the good fortune to attend the Academic IT Festival over the weekend, in Cracow, Poland. Pictured below is the audience listening to Chad Fowler, Ruby and Rails guru, who I had the pleasure to discover is also a really nice and interesting guy. The festival is organised by a large group, including former [...]