Archive for February, 2007

Pycon 2007 Web Framework Panel

Published by yiyang on February 24, 2007 under Django, Elsewhere, Python

Here is the note from James Bennett and the other one note from Matt Harrison .

One Laptop per Child: Ivan Krstić’s keynote on Pycon2007

Published by yiyang on February 24, 2007 under Elsewhere, Python

Here[1,2] are two wrtie-ups about this keynote.

‘Did you know that the OLPC machines have a “show source” button?’

‘Runs Python wherever it can (including the init boot daemon)’

OLPC website.

update: Free Software maganize also has a article about this keynote talk.

Using TinyMCE in Django’s admin

Published by yiyang on February 22, 2007 under Django, Elsewhere

A quite helpful how to.

How to download flcikr pictures with specific tags and use them as screensaver slides

Published by yiyang on February 6, 2007 under Python, Web

Flickr Leech is a slick site I often visit. One can browse mutiple pictures by favorite tags, user name, interestingness …etc at the same time. Today when I was looking at all those beautiful pictures from all over the world again, an idea came to me … Maybe I can download those pictures automatically as my screensaver slides? Then I started to dig into Flickr API , it turns out the answer is yes indeed. Here is my quick hack with Python: flickrDownload.py . After excuting

python flickrDownload.py dog 200

I was starting download the most popular 200 pictures which were tagged with “dog” from Flicke. Then I open f-spot in Ubuntu and tag all these pictures with dog,

and go to Edit->Preference to set them as my screensaver slides.