http://powertwenty.com/kpd/blog Rowing, Python, and experiences of a Micro-ISV Fri, 02 Jan 2009 21:26:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This Year's Hammer Ergatta information was just announced: It will be at the John Carroll University Recplex on Sunday, February 22. This indoor regatta benefits a local collegiate rowing club, so if you are in the Cleveland area, come on out, have a little fun, and help out a rowing club. Contact Chris ... http://powertwenty.com/kpd/blog/index.php/rowing/indoor-rowing/hammer_time I found the old Erg-Piece Calculator I wrote back when I maintained the WRRA website. Since it's been lost on that site, I thought it would be nice post it here. Just fill in two of the three fields and hit tab or enter. The calculator will fill in the ... http://powertwenty.com/kpd/blog/index.php/rowing/erg-piece_calculator Just a quick update. The first release is feature-complete. At this point I am just waiting on the voice vendor to complete an evaluation of the demonstration/trail mode. ErgMate will ship with a high quality voice that is a marked improvement over MS-Mary, Mike, or ... http://powertwenty.com/kpd/blog/index.php/rowing/ergmate_update_122f92f2008 While I've not posted any updates in some time (that's what having a baby will do to you), I have been busy incorporating feedback from the early beta testing. The biggest new feature is a wizard that allows one to create new sequences by simply answering a few questions. ... http://powertwenty.com/kpd/blog/index.php/rowing/indoor-rowing/ergmate_update_102f162f2008 TimeSpin has a bug in that it reports the same width for GetBestSize when AM/PM is shown and when it is not (24 hour format). This causes an empty space to appear after the control when it is set to display time in 24 hours. I'm not ... http://powertwenty.com/kpd/blog/index.php/python/update_to_timespin_control_for_wxglade I added a workaround for a problem with timectrl. You'll want to upgrade to the 1.4 version of the time_spin_and_control distribution if you use limited, min, max, or value parameters in Glade when specifying the control. Edit - 3/8 - updated to version 1.4 http://powertwenty.com/kpd/blog/index.php/python/update_to_timectrl2ftimespin_wxglade_extension_ The program I'm working on (ErgMate) requires entry of hours/mins/seconds durations. I just defined input as total number of seconds for the initial prototypes, but the time has come to make it more usable. I was able to create the bridge code necessary to add the wx.lib.masked.TimeCtrl ... http://powertwenty.com/kpd/blog/index.php/python/adding_a_timectrl_widget_to_wxglade The February Cleveland Area Python Users Group Meeting was held last night. The guys at BitBacker opened their doors and supplied pizza. It was the best meeting in awhile - 3 talks! Christian Wyglendowski kicked things off with an overview of SimpleParse. He's used it ... http://powertwenty.com/kpd/blog/index.php/python/clepy_-_simpleparse2c_ipython2c_and_twill This morning I started getting the following exception when generating code from wxGlade: Traceback (most recent call last): File "c:\temp\wxGlade\application.py", line 394, in generate_code class_names=class_names) File "c:\temp\wxGlade\xml_parse.py", line 503, in __init__ . . . File "c:\temp\wxGlade\xml_parse.py", line 593, in ... http://powertwenty.com/kpd/blog/index.php/python/wxpython/exception_when_generating_code_from_wxglade_-_and_how_to_fix_it It's coming! Beta testing revealed that new users can use a hand getting started. There's going to be a wizard to help new users create sequences. I was going to post a screen shot of the flow, but that' not very exciting, so instead here's a screenshot ... http://powertwenty.com/kpd/blog/index.php/rowing/indoor-rowing/ergmate_update_12f312f08