Freitag, Juli 31, 2009

Digitizing books to DjVu with free tools « philiKON – a journal

Digitizing books to DjVu with free tools « philiKON – a journal: "The answer is, of course, to create a digital copy. One possible format for that would be PDF. Problem is: for its image data it has to resort to conventional compression algorithms. That means that scanned documents can turn out to be quite large. A file format that’s much more suited for this is DjVu. One of its tricks is a lossy algorithm that recognizes recurring shapes such as characters. As a result, DjVu encoded books are typically a quarter of the size of PDF encoded books.

Given the need to digitize a couple of books at work, I investigated whether it’s possible to create high-quality digital copies using freely available tool"

Donnerstag, Mai 14, 2009

OpenGoo: An Open Source Web Office

"OpenGoo is an easy to use Open Source Web Office.

It is a complete online solution focused on improving productivity, collaboration, communication and management of your teams.

OpenGoo is now developed and serviced by Feng Office which introduces a professional service platform to satisfy community needs such as:"

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Montag, Mai 11, 2009

Welcome to Pyke

Welcome to Pyke: "Pyke introduces a form of Logic Programming (inspired by Prolog) to the Python community by providing a knowledge-based inference engine (expert system) written in 100% Python."

Montag, Mai 04, 2009

EuroSciPy

EuroSciPy: "The first EuroSciPy last year was a success. 44 people from all over Europe and a few from the USA attended. The presentations were really interesting and everybody had a lot of ideas to exchange with others. For more details on last year's conference have a look at the EuroSciPy 2008 page.

This year's conference will be on July 25th and 26th again in Leipzig, Germany at the same venue as last year."

Sonntag, Mai 03, 2009

Python 3D Software

Python 3D Software: "small collection (84 packages) of pointers to Python software for working in three dimensions"

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Sonntag, April 19, 2009

Stephen Marsland: Machine Learning: An Algorithmic Perspective

Stephen Marsland: "I've written a textbook entitled 'Machine Learning: An Algorithmic Perspective'. It will be published by CRC Press, part of the Taylor and Francis group, on 2nd April 2009. The book is aimed at computer science and engineering undergraduates studing machine learning and artificial intelligence.
There are lots of Python code examples in the book, and the code is available here."

Donnerstag, April 09, 2009

Learning Python, Linux, Java, Ruby and more with Tutorial Videos

Learning Python, Linux, Java, Ruby and more with Tutorial Videos: "Before learning-paths, Showmedo's collection of video-tutorials lacks structure, being a lump of admittedly rather cool content. Learning-paths, created by writing a text script, allow that content to be structured and bound together. In this way, continuous journeys through the content can be fashioned. It is hoped that this will make the experience of learning richer and more enjoyable. Authors should now have much more freedom to guide users, reuse content, both their own and others, and encourage the production of other learning paths."

Samstag, April 04, 2009

Portable Python - your portable development environment

Portable Python - your portable development environment: "Portable Python is a Python® programming language preconfigured to run directly from a portable device, enabling you to have, at any time, a portable programming environment. One of the most powerful dynamic programming languages that is used in a wide variety of application domains and is used at many companies and institutions around the world (YouTube, Google, NASA, Firaxis Games, etc.)."

Sonntag, März 22, 2009

HackingLab

HackingLab: "Pinguino is an Arduino-like board based on a PIC Microcontroller. The goal of this project is to build an integrated IDE easy to use on LINUX, WINDOWS and MAC OS X. Arduino is a powerful tool with some defaults. One of its inconveniences are a no native USB interface on the chip and its code length.

The IDE of Pinguino is built with Python. An integrated preprocessor translates specific Arduino instructions directly into C. This preprocessor reduces the code length and the execution speed. Pinguino hardware is based on a 18F2550. This chip has an integrated native USB module and an UART for serial link."

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Overview — Sphinx v0.5.2b1 documentation

Overview — Sphinx v0.5.2b1 documentation: "Sphinx is a tool that makes it easy to create intelligent and beautiful documentation, written by Georg Brandl and licensed under the BSD license.

It was originally created to translate the new Python documentation, and it has excellent support for the documentation of Python projects, but other documents can be written with it too. Of course, this site is also created from reStructuredText sources using Sphinx!"

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Mittwoch, Februar 25, 2009

Sonntag, Februar 22, 2009

Help Publicize PyCon

PyCon 2009: Chicago

PyCon is the largest annual gathering of the Python community in the world. PyCon is really three events in a row:

  • Tutorial Days: Wednesday March 25 & Thursday March 26 (2 days of tutorials this year instead of 1!)

    Learn something new and relevant in intensive 3-hour sessions. The evenings are free for socializing and Open Space.

  • Conference Days: Friday March 27 through Sunday March 29.

    See what's going on in the Python world, meet your fellow Pythonistas, share your knowledge and experience, make contacts, brainstorm projects, discuss prospects... the sky's the limit.

    • Scheduled talks will happen in the ballrooms. 4 tracks of talks and panels on a wide variety of topics will be presented, with something for everyone. Also we'll have keynote talks every day.

    • Open Space sessions

    • Lightning talks are quick 5-minute talks that you can sign up for at the conference. In a word, lightning talks are FUN!

    • Expo Hall: Meet with representatives of companies using Python, supporting Python, and hiring Pythonistas. Snag some swag!

      Many sponsors will be recruiting, so come prepared with business cards and résumés if you're in the job market. You can also check out the Python Job Board for listings.

    • And don't forget the hallway track!

  • Development Sprints: Monday March 30 through Thursday April 2.

    Help advance your favorite project, including Python itself! We provide the space and the infrastructure (network, power, tables & chairs), you provide the enthusiasm and the brainpower. All experience levels welcome. The sprints are free!

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Sonntag, Februar 15, 2009

Whoosh

Whoosh: "Whoosh is a fast, featureful full-text indexing and searching library implemented in pure Python."

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heise online - 11.02.09 - Visual Numerics bringt PyIMSL Studio auf den Markt

heise online - 11.02.09 - Visual Numerics bringt PyIMSL Studio auf den Markt: "PyIMSL Studio heißt das neue Produkt für Entwickler, die mit Phyton arbeiten, das Visual Numerics auf den Markt gebracht hat. Programmierer können damit mathematische und statistische Prototypen, die sie mit PyIMSL erstellt haben, direkt in ihre Anwendungen übernehmen. Es handelt sich um Verfahren, die sich auf die International Mathematical and Statistical Library (IMSL) stützen."