Twisted Community Code on Launchpad
We already made an official announcement about it, but I wanted to post again about the Twisted Community Code project on Launchpad.After (nearly) two months, I think so far I'd call it successful....
View Articlepython-committers
Quote:Welcome to python-committers! This publicly-archived but invite-only mailing list is for people who have commit privileges for Python to discuss issues that do not concern the general public....
View ArticleEcru
Remember how I was talking about restricted execution, and mentioned that thing "Monte" that doesn't actually exist? Well actually I was trying to refer to Ecru, a new E implementation in C. After...
View ArticleGmail and HTTPS
If you use gmail, all of your email is probably going unencrypted over the Internet, allowing fairly easy snooping of all your sensitive data. You may feel good that there's an "https://" in your...
View ArticleThis is a Rant
Edit: see end of postLinux.com :: Protecting your MySQL database from SQL injection attacks with GreenSQLThis is an article (written by a very clueless person) about GreenSQL which is a tool (written...
View ArticleInteractive Fiction Competition 2008
There are a slew of posts about it on Planet IF, but given that my readership is largely outside of the IF community, I'm going to mention here that IFComp '08 is now under way and is accepting votes....
View ArticleGlulxe packages for Ubuntu
So I got all the IFComp 2008 games, unzipped them, and tried to play them. Then I found out I didn't have any decent interpreters for the games and couldn't find Ubuntu 64-bit binaries for them on the...
View ArticleIm in ur web site, postin ur Inform 7 extensions
Hi, this is a quick note that now people who want to add extensions to the Inform 7 Extensions Page should now contact me at i7extensions@wordeology.com; Emily Short has handed off the responsibility...
View ArticleJust so I don't feel like a slacker
I took a week off from work this month (and I'll do this once per month until the end of the year, since my vacation time doesn't roll over) and have been trying to actually use it productively. Here's...
View ArticlePlanet IF: Now slightly less buggy
I've updated the software behind Planet Interactive Fiction to a new version/fork called Venus. This should fix that bug which caused some blog post titles to be replaced by the username of the person...
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A meme that is not a quiz, thankfully
There's a meme about books that's going around:Daniel WatkinsCory DodtSteve HoldenWhat you do is grab the nearest book, turn to page 56, and post the fifth sentence to your blog.First, the proof: This...
View ArticleTwisted 8.2.0pre2
Please try out the second pre-release of Twisted 8.2.0, the first Twisted release since April.DownloadsRelease notesPlease try it out and report any bugs.edit: Updated to pre2.
View ArticleOpen-Morality
I am really getting sick of open-morality games1.These games have a problem. It's not that they lack a wide enough range of moral decisions: I really do believe that my Fallout 3 character is a shining...
View ArticleBlueful
Okay, this is really cool. I think you should check it out.http://blueful.com/By Aaron A. Reed.
View ArticleInteractive Fiction Writing Month
I've just added the Interactive Fiction Writing Month blog to Planet IF. The project looks really cool. If you know anyone who's been thinking about trying to write some IF, point them in that...
View ArticleGames with non-expository stories
At the end of this blog post you'll find a list of games by three different developers. I think you should try them out.Edit: Pathways does actually work on Wine if you set fullscreen=0 in the...
View ArticleJudith
Judith is Terry Cavanagh's latest game, and this time he collaborated with Stephen Lavelle.It's another one of his experimental story-telling games, which are my favorite. I played the game about ten...
View Articleinform7.com
So, there's a new release of Inform 7, and a new web site.The entire web site has been redone, and I was responsible for the new extensions section. I won't say it's pretty (I'm working on it), and it...
View ArticleLaunchpad is now open source
I'm sure you've already heard this in a million places, but I'll add my blog to the din: Launchpad is now open source. All of it. Including the code hosting stuff. And the part that builds Ubuntu....
View ArticleWelp, things have been happening
Dang, July was my last post? That was a long time ago.Since then, I left my job at Canonical, took a nice vacation/hiatus of a few months, and now I've got a job at id Software which I'm starting on...
View ArticleI can't believe I made it
Let's see: I got to my new apartment in Uptown Dallas on Saturday the 2nd, got my driving learner's permit on Monday the 4th, got my driver's license Friday the 8th (the soonest I was allowed to, a...
View ArticleHow to send good unicode email with Python
# coding: utf-8# Python's email API is simple and easy to use!!!!!!!!!!!!!!# Requirements:# * UTF-8 headers# * UTF-8 body# * prefer quoted-printable to base64 transfer-encoding.# * Don't escape "From"...
View ArticleHoly sh*t! QUAKE LIVE is launched!
Alright, so what's the explanation for my long absence from the blog this time? QUAKE LIVE just went out of beta yesterday. We've released subscription services which give you access to new maps, a new...
View ArticleKingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning interactive story
The community people at Big Huge Games and 38 Studios are doing a neat little project on Facebook - a kind of crowdsourced choose-your-own-adventure story.Here's the blurb from the initial post:We...
View ArticleComplete guide to setting up an OpenStack development environment: devstack...
So I recently bought a decked-out Leopard Extreme from System 76 with 64GB of RAM and SSDs for storage, and I wanted to set up a development environment for hacking on OpenStack Heat on it.(By the way,...
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