I'm proud to release first public version of BurnerOnFire. BurnerOnFire is written in Python, providing simple GUI(GTK+) and CLI interface to burning .iso images simultaneously to multiple CD/DVD burners. Documentation and install instructions are located at kiberpipa.org. Features: write iso image to multiple CD/DVD burners count number of successfully burned discs option to limit number of discs to be burned detects write speeds and intersect results eject/close tray burner TODO: write multiple iso ...

I'm building an GUI program that will be used on Windows platform. I already accepted the fact that I will need three installers (Python, GTK stuff, and one for my package). Now, I want my installer to place shiny little shortcut on my desktop. Here is the command to generate Window installer: python setup.py egg_info -RDb "" bdist_wininst --install-script postinstall.py egg_info -RDb will clear and developemnt tags from release name, so the output ...

I've been programming for about two years, all this time only in Python. I'll say that those 500 lines I wrote in Flash AS2 before going to Python does not count. I'm fluent with standard library that Python provides, but I've noticed quite a few times now; I'm getting stuck on issues that correlate to low level knowledge. I'm thinking it may trigger someday motivation to learn C. Going on topic, everyone that has ...

On 9th of August I return from vacations and I decided to research on some new area in the week after. Currently, there are two ideas, both easy-to-implement: 1. Ping my host every 5 minutes and send me email if down I know there are many websites which touch this topic but; Most of them are limited and need subscription. I want something basic, to do just what I want. WHY: learn basic ...

I've been working on advanced HTML form that uses some Mootools (JavaScript framework) love. In most of my projects I use FormEncode in combination with FormAlchemy. Although both libraries have very different philosophies and areas, they work great together with some patches. I want to share schema because I spent quite some time putting it together - might save you some trobule. This was the first time I used variabledecode module, and found best ...