To be able to visualize some quantities attached to countries all over the world, I needed a image with various countries color-coded. The fantastic matplotlib basemap package was not an option as I really needed a static image.
So I generated an SVG image with all the countries. It was generating by tracing a bitmap, so [...]
EuroScipy 2010, the 3rd European meeting on Python in Science, will be held July 8-11 in the center of Paris, at the Ecole Normale Supérieure.
We have made good progress in the organization, and we already have an exciting program although paper submission is not yet even open.
Tutorial tracks
There will be two tutorials tracks:
An introductory track, [...]
I know this sounds stupid, but I have failed to find on the web a simply-accessible text file giving the GPS coordinates for the world’s major cities. The web site World-gazetteer is helpful, but doesn’t really give what I want. So I wrote a small Python web-scraping script to get the data I needed. BeautifulSoup [...]
This summer has been hectic (life is hectic anyhow!). As I was switching fields from physics to neuro-imaging, I took the chance to travel to the US and to spend the summer doing Python-related stuff.
Austin - Enthought
I spent most of my time this summer at Enthought, in Austin, Texas. Actually it was the Enthought guys [...]
Hell, I had a crazy summer of hacking (it not quite over yet, and I really need to blog about it). I am starting too feel a bit tired, but apparently my laptop feels even more so.
My DELL laptop has decided it would die on me: it no longer charges. The good news is that [...]
Yes, the topic of this post is a bit unlike what I usually talk about. But, hey, a man’s got to do what a man’s got to do.
Turbogears hack
So, suppose you have a dynamic website using turbogears, and you want to publish part of the content of this dynamic site to a static website, for [...]
Yes it is, the lizards are more green than back home:
This is what is running on the balcony, as I check my email.
I am slowly discovering the different world. Yesterday I settled down in my office. As you might know, Enthought’s offices are located in the center of Austin. They are absolutely superb, with large [...]
I just arrived in Austin, Texas. I need to settle down a bit more, blog about my fantastic holidays, but I wanted to give an update of where I was.
The hospitality here has been fantastic so far. I am sitting in a confy chair, sipping a fresh orange juice, after having spend a night in [...]
I am leaving tomorrow for a three-weeks trip to central Asia with Emmanuelle. We are going to spend one week in Uzbekistan, visiting fabulous cities like Samrkand or Bukhara. After this, we will spend two weeks in Kyrgyzstan, back-country trekking.
I will be offline during all this time. It will be good to finally take holidays. [...]
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