After a few months of owning a N900 finally came the itch to write an app for it -- using of course Python! The Maemo documentation is excellent, I'm only putting my notes down here for future reference.

First off, making sure to know which version of Maemo is on the …

As briefly mentioned yesterday ;) I happily attended a talk by Kevin Warwick this week at the Science Gallery. The talk was fantastic as expected, and I'd like to take the time to tip my hat to the Science Gallery: if you haven't been yet, or if you plan to visit …

Last Thursday I happily attended a talk by Kevin Warwick, with the catchy title of "Kevin Warwick: My life as a cyborg". He introduced his work by talking to us about experiments he or his students did on themselves, which made for an intensely interesting and entertaining talk, interspersed with …

Last Thursday was my first attempt at setting up "Python Office Hours", an evening during which people starting out with Python are welcome to drop in with questions, problems or just to work on beginner projects with someone who can give a hand within reach.

It probably wasn't a success …

Recently I needed to find some sort of Javascript framework to start unit testing new code, some of which was using jQuery. I ended up deciding on Jasmine.