Archive for February, 2010


Adding extra fields to a model form in Django’s admin

By on February 11th, 2010 in Python Comments (23)

I ran into this problem recently and found that the Django documentation wasn’t exactly clear on how to solve it, so I’ve provided an example in case anyone else needs to do the same thing. My goal was to add an extra form field to one of my model objects that represented a property which…

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PyClutter video tutorial

By on February 9th, 2010 in Python Comments (3)

As usual, we’re learning together: today I decided that I would like to be able to play video in our Bazooka (PyClutter-based) framework, so I set out to write a Bazooka video class. The source code for Bazooka, including this video class, is in our git repository here. First, make sure you have PyClutter 0.9.2…

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Clutter links

By on February 8th, 2010 in Python Leave a Comment

Bazooka is built on top of the Python bindings for the 0.9.2 version of the Clutter Toolkit, or whatever version the latest stable Python bindings are at. Occasionally I go trolling for additional Clutter links, and I thought I’d post a few of my finds here for easy access. Latest stable clutter docs Latest stable…

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Adding a persistent ad banner to a UITabBar

By on February 8th, 2010 in iOS Comments (6)

Here’s a little tip for anyone that wants to add a persistent ad banner above the UITabBar to their tab navigation based iPhone app. I’ve seen a few apps do this so I was fairly surprised when a quick search of Google and StackOverflow turned up absolutely nothing. After all, it seems like it would…

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HTML5 is not about the death of Flash, but the return of browser innovation

By on February 6th, 2010 in Technology Comments (13)

My previous post on the Flash controversy brought up some interesting comments that I thought warranted further discussion. A number of bloggers have shared their opinions as well. Incidentally, this conversation has been going on for months on the web, the iPad announcement just seems to have reignited it. Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch posted: We…

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