Monday, April 05, 2004

PythonCard release 0.7.3. PythonCard 0.7.3 PythonCard is a GUI construction kit for building cross-platform desktop applications on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. The latest release of PythonCard includes over 40 sample applications and tools to help users edit and build applications in Python. Check out the sample pages for screenshots and info about the samples. The more applications page has some info and screenshots on applications users have built with PythonCard. The documentation page has links to installation instructions for Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows that covers installing Python, wxPython, and PythonCard. The documentation includes some walkthroughs, screenshots and info on using PythonCard and some of its tools such as the codeEditor, resourceEditor (layout tool), findfiles, and runtime shell. The main point of this release is to add support for wxPython 2.5.x while still supporting wxPython 2.4.x. Check the changelog for a complete list of changes for release 0.7.3. This is the last planned release of PythonCard as a "prototype". The status of the project on SourceForge has already been changed to beta. The current plan is for the next release to be 0.8, which will drop "Prototype" from the package name, include more documentation, and finalize some of the core APIs exposed to user code. If all goes well, there will be a PythonCard 1.0 release by early summer. If you would like to contribute to PythonCard, the first step is joining the mailing list. [Kevin Altis' Weblog] 4:26:58 PM      Google It!.

Java Evangelist Leaves Sun After MS Settlement [Slashdot] 4:25:38 PM      .

WinAmp Security Hole Discovered, Patched [Slashdot] 4:24:22 PM      Google It!.

Searching by Shape... [Slashdot] this is progress -- BL 10:15:40 AM      Google It!.

BloggerCon session: Blogging in Academia. [Scripting News] 10:14:15 AM      Google It!.

SF Project of the Month. Boa Constructor has been picked as the SourceForge Project of the Month [link via the Daily Python-URL]Congratulations to Riaan Booysen and the rest of the Boa team.[Kevin Altis' Weblog] 10:12:53 AM      Google It!.

iSeek.iSeek  Anyway, as of today I no longer need to use my earlier hacks. I found iSeek, which sits in the Mac OS X menubar, exactly where this type of utility belongs. iSeek comes pre-configured with setups for Amazon, iMDB, dictionary.com and most of the other sites I typically search; of course, it supports Google too, but that isn't as important since there is a Google search built-into Safari. You can try out iSeek for free and/or watch a movie of iSeek in action. A license costs $15. Of course there is still the need for this kind of utility in the Windows task bar for the rest of the world that doesn't use Mac OS X, but I'll leave that as an exercise for the reader.[Kevin Altis' Weblog] 10:11:41 AM      Google It!.

Custom widgets using PyQt. Roberto Alsina's Custom widgets using PyQt is a short tutorial explaining how to make easy-to-reuse widgets using PyQt. [Kevin Altis' Weblog] 10:08:52 AM      Google It!.

Advanced Mobile Phone Tech in Japan [Slashdot] 10:05:34 AM      Google It!.