Kushal , kD & FOSS » Python

Timelapse using Fedora and D80

kd — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 18:48:28 +0000

My first timelapse movie: /me trying to clean the kitchen

ogv or in youtube

Shot in a Nikon D80 using entangle (#yum install entangle ) and a small python script.

Resized using imagemagick and video created using mencoder.

Comments are welcome :)

Trying out the upcoming version of lekhonee-gnome

kd — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 17:51:20 +0000

Testing the upcoming version of lekhonee-gnome frontend.

Status:

One can write post in the direct view mode
Still one can edit the html by clicking the view source button
Spell checking is only working while working with raw HTML source
Supposed to work properly with any unicode string like কুশল দাস

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GNUnify2010 and my python workshop

kd — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 05:53:02 +0000

GNUnify2010 was the first for me. Started a bit early to the venue, Rahul was along with me. His talk was in top of schedule. I slowly moved to the lab where my python workshop was scheduled.

The main target of the workshop was to show/teach the basics of the python programming language. I hear mostly students asking “How to start working on a project?” but as the learning curve is not so easy in most of the things, they run away. The only students we have from India who are contributing to any FOSS projects are the people who came in their own interest. I found programming with python can be an easy entry point for the general students and they can become better programmer in life. This is the main reason behind my python workshops in different places.

No need to buy books, great online community, projects working on different dimensions, all of these can generate interest in the students.

Coming back to my workshop, I generally try to follow my own book (which I have to update). Slowly going through simple examples and showing that it is not difficult. I ask the students to solve the lab works they do in any programming lab in python. This will help them to understand the basics of the language. The workshop lab was supposed to have 30 students, but many more came so I had to ask them to seat in groups in the computers (most of them was running Fedora ). The basic feedback I got, states that it was easy, but how the students are going to use this, I have no clue. Btw, most of the students in my workshop were from Pune University Maths department, I told them to attend Ramki’s workshop in the second half as his workshop was about explaining how to solve mathematical problems.

At the end of the workshop I showed few applications written in python and talked about job opportunity in market. 2 students contacted me after the event.

Full set of the event photos can be found here.

Coming month, I will be in Durgapur, doing another python workshop , I will also conduct a Django workshop.

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sparcy — command line utility for Spac Systems Limited GPS loggers

kd — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 06:14:12 +0000

Few days back I bought a new GPS data logger from Sparc Systems Limited , GDL 3204. It comes with a nice 3 page manual. The last page explains the data format of the logs.
The device works in a very nice and easy way, it is having 32 channels.

We already had a nice python script to parse the log and create gpx files. But for me , every time “cat”ing the device and then convert the log is a difficult task.

Sparcy , which can get the data from the device and convert them into gpxfor you. If you already have the raw data, you can convert them to gpx too. People from #osm helped me a lot to understand how latitude and longitude calculations are done.
RPMs are available here.

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Dependency chart for kde-settings

kd — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 09:59:22 +0000

Download from here.
Warning 18MB , may crash your browser and system, download and view with a desktop image viewer.

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packages dependent on wireless-tools

kd — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:47:27 +0000

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lekhonee-gnome 0.8 released

kd — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 07:46:57 +0000

I just released lekhonee-gnome-0.8 . This is actually a splitted source from the main lekhonee project. There are two major changes in this release.

i18n done properly
Error messages are now being shown properly

The first point means now you can run lekhonee-gnome in your mother tongue. Some translations already submitted through fedora transifex.

You can get it from my yum repo.

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Jukebox 13 released

kd — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 09:37:34 +0000

Yesterday Jukebox 13 was released with help from tomeu.
You can download it from here. It is getting around 2k weekly download , which is really nice to see :)

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Need translations for lekhonee gnome frontend

kd — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 05:44:25 +0000

$TOPIC says all. You can find the pot file here. Lekhonee is the a desktop client for Wordpress.

To get it all $git clone git://git.fedorahosted.org/git/lekhonee.git

Please send me a patch or .po files directly to kushal AT fedoraproject.org

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Boog 0.1 released

kd — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 08:01:16 +0000

Download the source, Fedora 11 rpm, srpm.

Few things to be noticed:

You must run it as root
Before using it you may want to fill in authentication details in /etc/boog.conf

TODO:

Use policykit
Users should be able to select/unselect files to be uploaded (advance use)
More use cases for indivitual packages

TODO list is actually too big, will push it to the repo later.

If you are an application developer and want to have to some kind of default information from the users please drop me a mail [kushal AT fedoraproject]

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