Hansje's laboratory

My personal projects. Large ones and small ones... Currently, all of it is open source (or free software... I'm still experimenting with licenses). All of it is under development. All of it is in Python. (One day you might find something here that is written in a different language... but don't hold your breath. ;-)

Note: All downloads can be found here.

Antilog

A simple HTTP log file reader.

• Antilog

Charm

A Python editor/IDE.

• The Charm editor

Google In-Depth

Google link harvester. Requires PyGoogle and Python 2.3. See the documentation for more.

Firedrop

A client-based web publishing tool.

• A quick introduction to Firedrop
• Macros
• Firedrop entry attributes
• Anatomy of a Firedrop entry
• Notes on Firedrop releases
• The ItemList content type
• Firedrop FAQ
• Sending trackback pings in Firedrop

Kaa

A weblogging tool written in pure Python. The predecessor of Firedrop.

• Introduction

Mygale

Mygale is a news-gathering webcrawler. It's considered sort of obsolete now, but the code may still be interesting as an example of HTML-scraping. More info here on the old Awaretek page.

pic2html

Tiny program to convert images to HTML.

• pic2html

Python-DX (vintage)

• My old experiments with Python for DOS, or what's left of it

Sextile

A format for editing weblog entries.

• Sextile (updated 2003.07.23)
• Sextile mini-FAQ (new 2003.06.29)

Testipy

A simple testing framework.

• The Testipy framework

Wax

A high-level GUI layer sitting on top of wxPython. Has its own page now.

Writings

Articles, essays, instructions, etc.

• Getting spambayes to work on Windows
• 10 Python Pitfalls
• Python beginner's mistakes

Weblog posts, Python-related:

• A simple upload script (Windows; right-click file, upload)
• Getting spambayes to work on Windows (without using Outlook)
• Ancient Python (Python 0.9.1 source downloads)
• The importance of being selfish (part 2) (why 'self' is a good idea)
• A backup script for spambayes
• Another silly Python/Windows hack (using the Windows registry to associate commands with "any file")
• A rat repellent for your registry (Python script to edit auto-startup areas of Windows registry)

Language comparisons (mostly informal):

• Robijn, fleur en fijn -- part 1, 2, 3 (about Ruby)
• Entering lambda land (about Haskell)
• The ABC language
• Learning C# (part one, two)
• Elasticity (about elastiC)
• OCaml
• Groovy (1, 2, 3)

Other stuff that might be of interest or useful to someone:

• Recognizing Magic cards (Magic the Gathering)
• On being colorblind