PyCon is here again! Last year had awesome fun at PyCon 2011 as a beginner python-tamer. This time I’m hoping to have even more fun because I’ll be able to understand more of what they are saying. :P
Flask is a microframework for Python based on Werkzeug, Jinja 2 and good intentions. And before you ask: It's BSD licensed!I came across Flask when I was going through the apps from Hasgeek. All their sites are built on Flask. So I thought of giving it a try and I'm not disappointed.
Last night like everyone I downloaded Instagram for my Android phone with really high hopes. But it seems they built the app in such a hurry that they forgot to adapt to the ways an Android app works.
My friend Rajesh pointed that the bottom bar shouldn’t be there always and they should make use of the menu key instead, which, strangely enough, doesn’t do anything right now. Well, most users won’t mind, cause I hardly needed the menu button, everything was right in front of me. The share button icon is different than what it usually is. That’s a little trouble cause we’re used to the antler-like share icon. Post-upload sharing is incomplete. If I choose to share the picture after upload using the share button, instead of while uploading it, choosing Twitter or Facebook will give me just the link. The caption is not included in the tweet or the Facebook post. You have to manually write it. That is not good. My front facing camera is not working with Instagram’s own Camera app. It says picture is too small. It’s strange that they would have such a filter. But I saw the most annoying thing this morning when I saw that there was an update for Instagram. I updated, thinking it’ll fix some of the problems, but instead I found that the update size was 12mb+. That’s the size of the original application! This is just embarrassing. They are yet to figure out how android apps update works! Don’t know if it was tight schedule or incompetent developers or both, but it seems like to me that they built it in a rush. They tried to move fast and left these bugs behind. I hope they fix these problems soon.
Tonight I came across few youtube videos that pointed out how we tend “not to notice” things that we’re not expecting. I’ll say no more and let you watch them and see for yourselves.
How did you like it? Feel stupid? Confused? Want to watch again? Go ahead. Once you’re satisfied realizing what just happened, watch the later one.
Had enough fun yet?
The other day I was chatting at SuperUser chatroom and @studiohack mentioned that he had a Intro-to-Mac class that evening. That sounded funny as it was completely strange to me, having studied here in India. The closest subject I had to that was “Introduction to Computing” which was boring, and boiled down to C lessons, nothing more. I felt interested. And we started talking about how we taught ourselves.
Thing have changed a lot, since the time, almost a year back, when I wrote about getting a new job and leaving the city. I was all excited about going to Nagpur and staying around Karthik, Akshay and others. But (there is Always a but) things didn’t go as I planned them.
I always get stuck when I try to find a template for my website’s homepage. I’ve tried lot of templates, designed some myself(which sucked a lot), even tried using services like About[dot]me. But none of them truly satisfied me.
I use Skype a lot. But although Skype has a fantastic version for Windows, the Linux part is a bit weak. I run Fedora 14 on my laptop(Compaq CQ42 173TU) and for some reason, Skype wont run on it. With the RPM package of 2.2 Beta, it gets installed but never runs. So I installed the static version of it following this instructions here. But when I would try to run skype from terminal, this error would occur - [bash] [root@localhost ~]# skype skype: error while loading shared libraries: libXv.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory [/bash] So to check which dependency package I was missing, I searched with YUM - [bash] [root@localhost ~]# yum whatprovides libXv.so.1 [/bash] and found that this specific package libXv-1.0.5-1.fc13.i686 has that specific file. So although I’m running Fedora 14 and it’s of x86_64 architecture, I installed that package which was meant for Fedora 13 and i686 architecture. Then ran skype from terminal and it worked!
