Flame is a tool I wrote last year to take the nightmare that is working with WIX and make it easy to create a nice looking installer on windows with some important features (Shortcuts, Registry, File types, Custom Branding). I absolutely detest writing their inane xml by hand and generating then looking up GUIDs makes [...]
Flame Version 1.2.0 — Windows Installers made easy?
October 2nd, 2009 · No Comments
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Creating console-less executables with python and CX Freeze
August 13th, 2009 · No Comments
Eventually when making apps in python you run into the problem of needing to distribute executables instead of just source code. Jumping this hurdle requires you to use one of a couple libraries, the common ones being py2exe (windows only), pyinstaller (win and *nix), and cxfreeze (win, *nix, and mac). Each one works a little [...]
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MUA Drawing
May 1st, 2008 · No Comments
I know I just posted, but this has been a big deal for me for a while, and I really wanted to get it out here. MUA now officially has openGL drawing functions. I know, I know, this is the simplest thing you can possible do in openGL, but until today I had no idea [...]
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Time Lapse
April 17th, 2008 · 4 Comments
While I was finishing up my countdown/reminder software today, I got distracted and decided to write a time lapse webcam program that streams online. For demo purposes I stuck in a page about the weather and have it pointing out my window, but it will work for anything. Right now it is updating the ’stream’ [...]
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Post Pyweek
April 6th, 2008 · No Comments
Well, pyweek is over, and I think it went very well. I’m very happy with Office Space 5000. It certainly can be made a little better, but I think it is pretty good for a week’s work. We shall see what the others vote…
You can check out the Office Space 5000 page Here
Expect a post-mortum [...]
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