Mac OS X, Python, PySide and Matplotlib

In these days I'm working on Python application for manage some metereological datas. It uses PySide for the GUI and Matplotlib to plot some useful charts. Unluckily, I had some troubles to add this last library. After some work, I found a solution. This post is a brief guide to my little oddity on using PySide and Matplotlib on a Mac OS X environment.

Miguel de Icaza moves to Mac

This is a fresh news: Miguel de Icaza, founder of Gnome and Mono projects, declares in this post he moved from GNU/Linux to Mac OS X.

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New Aqueduct Release

Aqueduct development continues and now it supports HTML throught a new AqueductDriver. So you can export your Fountain files as HTML+CSS files.
Try it and report bugs.
You can obtain Aqueduct at


http://www.github.com/jacopoprendin/aqueduct

Aqueduct on GitHub

If you're a writer and you like to write screenplays for theatre or movies (as me), maybe you know Fountain, a markup language realized to give you a simple, easy and elegant way to manage your scripts.

Why I Will Not Use Java

This post is quite old. I wrote it back in 2010, when I realized Java's main drawback is its verbosity. I didn't expand my thoughts, 'cause I was too engaged at work with C, Objective-C and Python. But in these days I read some articles about Java 8 and I felt very disappointed, 'cause it lacks some features, some snippets and doesn't resolve Java's main drawbacks.

Java Language is Verbose

Java Language is verbose, in the worst way you can say it, mainly for two reasons.

Lua vs Python or Embedding vs Extending

Another (in)famous comparison!

At least once in your programmer career, you will face the need to add a scripting language to your program. Many famous programs use a scripting language: Unreal, Quake, Emacs, Blender 3D and many games. But, when you decide it and when you start to project your implementation, you face a terrible dilemma: should you make a program with a interpreter or functions for a interpreter? This crossroad is the "embed vs extend". I'll talk about my personal opinion and how this dilemma is equal by Lua vs Python comparison.