Ok, ok… my definition of “tomorrow” is not like what most people use, apparently. Although I took quite a while, now there is a static page on DataMatrix. There you will find a summary of wht I wrote in my other blog posts regarding this module. Of course, it will be kept up-to-date should I release a new version.
Aside that, I put a contact form on this blog. It may be useful for reports that aren’t directly related to the posts.
Following the instruction from Mike Arthur’s post on planetkde, I tried posting on dennogumi.org from KOrganizer (KDE 4.1.1). Lo and behold, it works! It’s always better to use an application rather than a clunky web user interface…
At last, since it’s been like ages, I decided to put out a new version of DataMatrix. For those who haven’t seen my previous post, DataMatrix is a Pythonic implementation of R’s data.frame. It enables you to manipulate a text file by columns or rows, to your liking, using a dictionary-like syntax.
In this new version there have been a few improvements and correction to a couple bugs (for example saveMatrix did not really save) and the start (only a stub at the moment) of an append function to add more columns (I’ll also think about a function to add rows).
DataMatrix is licensed under the GNU GPL, version 2 only. You can download the installer (Windows) or the source distribution (Linux and other *nixes). The only requirement is Python 2.5 or later installed on your system.
The README currently is a stub, but you can browse the pydoc generated documentation, which details how to instantiate and use DataMatrix objects (or you can turn to my older post).
Also, since git is the new “cool feature of the day”, DataMatrix is is hosted on github’s repository, and you can grab the source with
git clone git://github.com/cswegger/datamatrix.git
Comments and suggestions are welcome. I’ll be putting a static page on DataMatrix tomorrow, if time permits.
All right, it didn’t quite turn out as I had expected. This post wasn’t “soon”as I predicted originally. The reason? The fact that the video card I bought died after three days of usage, and getting a replacement took a while. Finally though, I have a functional system. It’s a Core 2 Duo CPU (7200) with 2 Gb of RAM and an ATI Radeon 3870 HD video card.
I installed Linux on it, of course, but instead of Kubuntu I gave openSUSE a try. It’s quite polished, although I had to go through some hoops to enable font hinting, especially in Firefox (not that I use that browser a lot, but I still need it for some things). I’ll be keeping Kubuntu on the Eee, as there’s a larger community for customization.
With this PC, I can do a few things, such as trying out FFXI on WINE and also try out some web application using the Django framework.
By the way, if you have seen some downtime in this blog it’s due to the absolutely awful Wordpress upgrades I attempted, and mostly Wordpress’s fault anyway.
