Juan Carlos Méndez-García

iPhoto plugin to export in Flash

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This is a game invented in 1883 by Edouard Lucas d’Amiens, a french mathematician. He loved anagrams, and he used the pseudonim Professor N. Claus (de Siam), which is an anagram of his name, to publish about the game.

The rules are very simple:
Only one disc can be moved at a time
A larger disc can’t [...]

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My project d2g is currently reading a description file for dependencies, then generating a text file that can be fed to graphviz to generate a picture of the graph. yapgvb is a wrapper in Python for graphviz, so I’ll migrate my code to use, so no additional step will be required.

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The package pydot, a Python interface to Graphviz’s Dot language, may be a better way to generate the graphs than writing intermediate dot files. Will review
According to the site, pydot provides:
An interface for creating both directed and non directed graphs from Python. Currently all attributes implemented in the Dot language are supported (up to [...]

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The PyTables package is a Python interface to HDF5, which is a general purpose library and file format for storing scientific data made at NCSA. HDF5 can store two primary objects: datasets and groups. A dataset is essentially a multidimensional array of data elements, and a group is a structure for organizing objects in an [...]

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Found “GiNaC is Not a CAS“, a symbolic algebra manipulation system. Through swiginac it will be possible to use it from Python. The only concern is that may be an overkill.

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I hacked a Python program to export the iPhoto albums into the format I need to use zphoto and publish them on the website as Flash animations. I’d like to extend it to be a iPhoto PlugIn and this article has info on writing plugIns for Cocoa

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This article CHARMING PYTHON (Special Installment) — Revisiting XML Tools for Python – looks very interesting for the project I’m working on
More Modules: xml_pickle And xml_objectify
I have produced my own set of high-level modules for dealing with XML, called xml_pickle and xml_objectify. I have also written enough about these elsewhere (see Resources) that there is [...]

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Will try pygene - simple python genetic algorithms/programming library to test some ideas on strategy selection tools

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I think I found a good way to quickly create native looking applications on OS X. I like to use Python, and there is a library to bridge the Objective C libraries to Python named PyObjC. There is an IDE using this framework named PyOXIDE, but seems a bit buggy

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