Optimizing websites for iPhone and Android
Making mobile-friendly web pages with some CSS
Code snapshot of Ice Isle - Django web cRPG Game ;)
I've decided to release a snapshot of my Django powered web based cRPG game, code name "Ice Isle" ("Wyspa Mrozu"). The package contains fully working Django application (uses also PIL, simplejson, and jQuery library), however the game is far from finished, polished, documented and so on. This release is licensed under Creative Commons license BY NC SA and further releases on more liberal and/or GPL, LGPL license depend on the feedback ;) The snapshot contains Legendora Icons, some graphics from Baldurs Gate and Icewind Dale, and graphics from dreamweavedworlds.com - which have their own licenses (used temporary at this stage of development)
"Ćwiczenia Django" - soon to hit the book stores in Poland
"Django, Ćwiczenia" is a book written by me for Helion (publisher). Is a small book covering the introduction to Django (sample app that covers in steps most of the framework components) with some extras about GAE and Django + GAE (88 pages).
Work for a Django developer?
I've been developing Django, PyQt4 and Python in general apps and scripts for Goldenline.pl for more than a year, but all the big projects have been done, so there is no more work for me there. Python job offers in Warsaw/Poland, where I live are quite limited (like 4-5 bigger companies that use this technologies), so I'm wondering how big is the Django/Python job market in other countries? As for me I'm looking for something rather stable than freelancing one project per customer (well, that depends if there will be a lot of such customers ;)). For contact, more details please use my mail: riklaunim@gmail.com.
QYolk 0.2
QYolk is a PyQt4 GUI for Yolk and Setuptools - Python tools for managing Python packages installed from cheeseshop (eggs).
QYolk 0.2 contains:
- multilingual (Polish, English)
- list and filter Python packages
- check for updates
- update packages with setuptools
- PyQt4
- setuptools
- yolk
- OPTIONAL docutils
Mac OS X under Qemu
It looks like Qemu can easily run installed on disc Mac OS X (the OSx86 Project editions). Test installation on QEMU HDD image didn't passed (like it stopped at the end of instalation, which was very slow), but installed on external HDD OS X did run booted by QEMU. If you want to try this note that virtualised OS X will have limited resources (for example graphics), and in some countries legal issues arise.
Building standalone MS Windows apps with py2exe
How to make standalone Windows applications from Python and PyQt4 scripts using py2exe.
Building Mac OS X applications with py2app
How to make standalone Mac applications from Python and PyQt4 scripts using py2app.
Browser based RPG game in Django
I've started to code some parts of a browser based RPG game in Django some time ago, and it's getting really nice. Currently there are autogenerated fights and character statistics/inventory. Tile based maps (like this) are on their way. The code isn't available at the moment but it will be when I'll finish the maps more or less and polish the templates/code (add i18n, and so on). The ease of use of Django models is really useful in this project as it allows to easily implement needed flexibility (item model has a relation to effect model which describes every effect the item has like damage or armor class bonus. When a character equips such item all effects are assigned to the character and denormalised to get character final stats). Premade maps (few tiles) can be described with JSONs objects in the Admin Panel - zones of movement (x,y boxes), spawn points, actions points (and what's the action etc) and so on :) It won't super long and complex code, but it will make a good based for RPG browser games ;)
PictureFlow - listing images in PyQt4
PictureFlow - extra PyQt4 widget
