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How to make standalone OS X application bundles from PyQt apps using py2app

You can build cross-platform GUI applications in Python using a library called PyQt, a set of Python bindings for Nokia's Qt application framework. Using PyQt, you can create Python applications that look and feel like native applications regardless of whether they happen to be running on Linux, OS X, or Windows. The application files themselves, [...]
December 1st, 2008 by Aral - No Comments

02 12 08 • Community, Development

Bye bye, Pownce

I have to admit that I didn't use Pownce — heck, I only use Twitter because it's so light and takes almost no commitment whatsoever — but, as I recently tweeted, it was weirdly comforting to know that it was[...]

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02 12 08 • Development

Macports Python Google App Engine Gotcha

If you have Google App Engine installed via the official Mac launcher, and you also have Python installed under Macports, you might forget and try to run your app server via the Macports Python. This results in the follo[...]

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02 12 08 • Links

Links for 2008-12-01

Creating a new EC2 AMI from within VMware or from VMDK files – TheWebFellas - Ruby on Rails Development Specialists UK Creating the AMI from VMware was easier than I thought - but just in case anyone else is looking[...]

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01 12 08 • Apple, Development, Python

Python Launcher doesn’t work with OS X Leopard

It appears that Python Launcher doesn't work under OS X Leopard. Python Launcher is used to launch Python apps by double-clicking on them in the Finder, and is thus useful when testing GUI Python apps. I wasted a bit o[...]

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How to make standalone OS X application bundles from PyQt apps using py2app

You can build cross-platform GUI applications in Python using a library called PyQt, a set of Python bindings for Nokia's Qt application framework. Using PyQt, you can create Python applications that look and feel like native applications regardless of whether they happen to be running on Linux, OS X, or Windows. The application files themselves, [...]


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Yahoo! Pipes could flow to exciting new places with web hooks

Sucking from the pipe... Yahoo! Pipes, the excellent visual data mashup creator, has an unfortunate blockage problem. Specifically, it can pull in data from numerous sources, but the flow stops at the end of the pipe, waiting to be sucked out and consumed instead of automatically flowing out to its final destination. When you create a Yahoo! [...]


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Qik into Wordpress, first attempt.

I love the immediacy of Qik for recording short videos and yet I don't want my Qik videos to reside separately from my blog. In my initial attempt, I decided to integrate the two by putting a video player in the sidebar of my WordPress blog, consuming the Qik RSS feed for my videos, and [...]


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Teaching people to get phished, old skool style!

No, this isn't a write-up on Twitterank, the latest example of 15 seconds of hype-fueled hysteria that the Internets whipped into a minor frenzy before moving on to the next sensationalistic headline. (Yes, Twitterank asks you for your Twitter username and password but — wake up people! — so does every other Twitter app that [...]


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