Tag Archives: python

Indicator applet API changes in Ubuntu 9.10

Posted on October 22, 2009 by gareth

The API for the indicator applet has changed in Karmic and a little internal IBM Python application that I’ve written stopped working. Only a couple of minor changes were needed but trying to track down exactly what these were was … Continue reading →

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Building .deb packages for Python applications

Posted on June 2, 2009 by gareth

Building .deb packages for Python applications Recently I wanted to build a .deb package for an internal IBM application I was writing so that users could easily install it and also so we could distribute them through some internal repositories. … Continue reading →

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Replacing Python on a Battlefield 2 server

Posted on May 7, 2008 by gareth

Lately I’ve been doing some work (I promise it is real work) with Battlefield 2. The server part of the game has a cut-down version of Python built in so that you can interact with it, modifying aspects of the … Continue reading →

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Am I online?

Posted on April 5, 2008 by gareth

I’ve recently changed my broadband provider and wondered how reliable they’d be. I figured I needed a way for my house to let me know whenever the connection had dropped and for how long for etc. Remembering my post a … Continue reading →

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Tweetjects and Bluetooth

Posted on March 7, 2008 by gareth

Andy Stanford-Clark recently got a few people together to talk about blogjects and tweetjects after getting his house to tweet about the various goings-on there. That inspired me to think about what I could do with Twitter and remembered a … Continue reading →

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Christmas fun

Posted on December 31, 2007 by gareth

Ok, so I got a bit bored at some point over Christmas and decided to play with one of my presents – a USB Rocket Launcher. The first difficulty was getting it to run on my Linux laptop as the … Continue reading →

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