I’ve just released version 0.91 of TagPy. Besides some minor fixes, the biggest change is that you don’t say any more
tag.setArtist("Fat Boy Slim")
Instead, the (IMO) much more pythonic
tag.artist = "Fat Boy Slim"
is now where it’s at. Reading these attributes (and …
more ...As part of the course requirements for the mechanics class I took, a team of which I was a part designed a Rattleback. A rattleback is a top that appears to have a preferred direction of rotation, i.e. if you start spinning it the wrong way, it (unintuitively) will …
more ...I have released a new version of the Boost Bindings that fixes a problem with UMFPACK now typically being packaged as part of UFsparse. While I don’t think that this kind of packaging is a smart idea, Debian has recently jumped on the bandwagon, and thus this fix is …
more ...While I don’t typically propagate knitting or crochet content, this one was too good to pass up. :)
So, if you have a pretty pitiful-looking tree outside your window, why don’t you do it a favor, and…
Oh, and Josie (whose friend Jay pointed …
more ...I have generally been very happy with my new Samsung YP-MT6Z, until I hit a snag today. From my tests, it seems that the total lengh of all folder names on the device cannot exceed a certain number, on the order of a kilobyte or so. That boils down …
more ...As I previously reported, my old laptop, aramis, got rained on and sustained water damage resulting in—lo and behold—not a dead computer. In fact, most of it was fine, it even booted into X, and all of its components were usable, it would just always crash after around …
more ...Since the semester at Brown starts back tomorrow, I was a little concerned about my total lack of writing material. I still have my non-standard ruled paper from last year, but since a) it’s not a standard size, not even US-Letter, much less A4 and b) I don …
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