Monthly Archive for February, 2004

Windows Python Cryptography Toolkit

Published
by
doug
on February 26, 2004
in Python
. Closed

Nothing very exciting. At work I’ve been writing some code for Windows,
unusually. A COM server written in Python. The code itself uses the
pycrypto libraries, so I had to build them for Windows. Which needed a C
compiler, obviously. Which Windows doesn’t have - a strange ommission in
my view. I ought to write to my MP.

Anyway, I got it built in the end using mingw, and the binaries are href="/dist/pycrypto-win.shtml">here for anyone who needs them, along
with details on how they were built.

pyxmi

Published
by
doug
on February 24, 2004
in Python
. Closed

A new bit of software. This parses python source, producing XMI
suitable for importing into UML modelling tools (specifically
MagicDraw). It can parse the whole of Zope producing stuff that’s
actually useful. alpha quality code though, I never read the XMI spec just
fiddled till it worked. YMMV.

23 Week Scan

Published
by
doug
on February 23, 2004
in Family
. Closed

We had the 23 week scan for our unborn child a few days ago. All well,
thanks for asking. Here’s a href="/miniwinjer/23weeks-small.jpg">Picture.

Oggsquish

Published
by
doug
on February 2, 2004
in Python
. Closed

I’ve got a href="http://www.palmone.com/us/products/handhelds/tungsten-t3/">Palm
Tungsten T3, a marvellous bit of kit that I love. It does all sorts of
great stuff, especially over bluetooth. It can also play oggs, with href="http://www.aerodrome.us/aeroplayer/">Aeroplayer (free, but not
libre unfortunately).

Anyway, obviously I don’t want to put oggs ripped at silly quality on
there, since they are quite large, so I’ve written this small program, href="/dist/">oggsquish that will reduce the quality and filesize of
the oggs. Downsampled to 0.4, which is 128Kbps nominal VBR, I can fit over
120 tracks on a 512MB SD-card. Which is nice.