Often it's useful to be able to store up drawing commands so you can use them later somewhere else (or even just pass them to another thread).
This is a simple drawing model, implemented in cairo, hopefully somebody will find it useful.
Queue
``` {: .brush:python} class DrawQueue: ''' A list of …
Update: 26/April/2010
Problems I was having with incomplete images have been fixed in the current version of the web library, available in shoebots mecurial repository.
Using Processing from Jython is a promising idea, so I took the base from this post on backspaces.net where they explained how …
Cairo is a 2D vector graphics api used by Firefox, Gtk and other desktop projects.
I'm going to show here that it can also be used to generate web content, using Django.
I'm going to port two examples from the Michael Urmans Cairo Tutorial for PyGTK Programmers.
To understand the …
I've uploaded my scripts to help workflow to google code, naming the project batch flow.
Heres a summary of some of the things you can do.
If you have the address bar enabled in explorer:
Copy the location, go to the …
I recently found a neat way of accessing files in a linux VMWare image. This is really useful, as theres never really a good time to break your VMWare image, this is also handy if you don't want to run the whole machine, but just access the files inside.
There …
Stoyan of PHPIED.com has found the joy using javascript for scripting in the OS...
I've put up a few scripts I find useful in windows (download at the end of the article):
I recently came across Java2Python. As I'm interested in Cairo I thought it would be interesting to try porting one of the example tutorials from ZetCode.
I'll run through the steps involved in porting then try and reach some conclusions at the end :).
This is easiest in …
Just been checking out what Mr Palmer has been up to... quite a lot it seems... if I could get further than 2 chapters in 6 months with Getting Things Done maybe I could stop procrastination and start GTD too :)
And I've been checking out some online comics...
My 6 …
It turns out my lack of networked media consumption utopia via xbmc was all down to upgrading my router... the xbox was fixed on 10.0.0.x while everything else moved over to 192.168.1.x ...so I learned that SMB doesn't like that at all.
Oh well …