I've recently found myself in desire of a pure Python AES implementation. I had started writing one a while ago, but I dropped it because the conversion from the initial Rijandel version in C was horribly tedious ( Read more... )

So, I was going to write a blog post about some new features I'm going to be releasing in the next version of PyPE (which I hope to release by the end of April), but I started to ramble and I realized that I wasn't even all that interested in writing it :P . Talk about it in person and be nerdy? Ok. Write? No ( Read more... )

http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2009/02/googlers-and-py3k.html

Probably not, but a guy can hope.

It's been a few months, but I finally got around to putting my music collection on my work laptop. And after putting it on, of course I need to install a music player. For years I swore by Winamp (the 2.x series, 3.x was garbage, and I never got around to 5.x), which worked quite well, but even I have the need for convenient and flexible ( Read more... )

As I was wandering through the UTF-8 specification for encoding unicode as bytes, I came upon the Wikipedia entry for UTF-8 ( Read more... )

I talked about why I was switching back to Windows a few days ago, and now I've switched. I'm now using Windows after a single evening of transition. I managed to misplace a single saved password on the previous machine, so I need to get one reset, but there are worse things.

One thing that I'll miss is OS X's Spaces. I've tried Virtual Desktop ( Read more... )

I totally know people who are (or who know people) famous to geeks...

Early last summer, my friend Andreas came to me with a question.

Since asking that question, he's managed to improve the speed of the Javascript execution engine in Firefox by some fairly significant margins.

Congratulations Andreas, you are now geekily famous.

So far, I've noticed a couple annoying bits in dealing with OSX and programming GUIs ( Read more... )

One thing that has cropped up as I attempt to use OS X as a real development platform is that on occasion in PyPE, the Undo/Redo and Cut/Copy menu commands go gray, making it so that I can't do any of those operations. Now, I can ctrl+click on a selection and use the underlying Scintilla cut/copy, but I can't Undo/Redo, which sucksA quick restart ( Read more... )

This will probably only be interesting to a few of you, but that's ok ( Read more... )