Like many people I use a bunch of Google services. And while many people have privacy concerns, that is not really one of my concerns. I have, I think, a bigger concern: Google has figured out the things I would like to buy, but cannot afford! And they keep showing me the ads for these [...]
I upgraded to Fedora 16 alpha last week and it honestly went pretty smoothly. I did have to do a little massaging to get yum to upgrade cleanly, but once I got the magic it went straight forwardly without any problems. Great job everyone! Of course like any alpha, its not going to be bug [...]
I really want to believe Mark’s post as I have nothing but goodwill for Ubuntu (if Ubuntu succeeds, we all succeed) and Mark. However, I have to say that I think there are at least two points which are overlooked in his post, and I suspect intentionally. The first is the role that copyright assessment [...]
As MongoDB’s 1.8 release cycle is drawing to a close, I decided to update the Fedora 15 packages of MongoDB to the 1.7.x branch. The upgrade process from 1.6 to the 1.7.x/1.8.x series should be fairly straightforward. On non-replication/non-sharded setups it should be completely transparent: just upgrade the RPMs and restart; everything should work. For [...]
Thanks to the generous sponsorship of FAMSCo, I’ve arrived in Brussels for FOSDEM. FOSDEM actually started on Friday with the beer event. People started trickling in around 5pm, and by 9pm it was completely packed: Saturday morning kicked off with a bang, filling the largest conference room in Belgium. FOSDEM also followed the annual tradition, [...]
My Fedora RPMs for Natus v0.1.3 were approved and are in the process of making it through updates-testing. If you are running Fedora 13 or 14 and would like to try out Natus, you may do so using one of the following procedures: Wait about 24 hours for the packages to hit the mirrors, enable updates-testing [...]
11 Dec
Posted by Nathaniel McCallum as Technology
I’m pleased to announce that I’ve released Natus v0.1.3, which can be downloaded here. 0.1.3 is largely an API cleanup and new module release, with a few new APIs to boot. Here are the most visible changes: POSIX Module There is now a posix module which wraps a good number of POSIX APIs. Here is an [...]
In yesterday’s post, I gave an example of how to use JavaScript from within Python. This is an important feature enabling Python programmers to setup JavaScript environments and execute JavaScript in them. But as I mentioned in my release announcement post, Natus’ Python bindings are bi-directional. This means we can also access Python from JavaScript! Note that not only [...]
This is just a quick demo on how to use JavaScript from Python using Natus. The basic idea here is that you create your engine and global and then you export python objects into the Natus global environment. Once you do this, you are able to call back into Python from JavaScript. $ python Python [...]