Chris Cogdon's Blog

Rather than keeping it to myself, I'm making public all the little python snippets I create on my GitHub pages. Especially all the things I tend to create over and over because I can't remember on what project I created them last.

Also, I think I'm "pretty good" at Python and coding in general – I have no concern putting "expert" next to Python on a resumé even if it risks Guido or someone of that stature giving an interview – but I'm by no means the last authority. If you see something in my code that could ...

Broke the CSS for a bit, there. Didn't notice due to lack of care. Sorry!

Apple's maps: its worst software product yet?

Not a chance. That honour has to go to Apple's Quicktime 4, with its skeuobarfic volume control.

Here's a little python utility to add a timestamp to a text stream. Useful if you have a tool (eg: mtr --raw) that emits information over time, but does not add timing information of its own:

#! /usr/bin/env python

import datetime, sys, optparse

cli_description = "Add a timestamp before each line"

def get_options ():
	parser = optparse.OptionParser ( description=cli_description )
	opts, args = parser.parse_args ()
	if len(args) != 0:
		raise parser.error ( "not expecting arguments" )
	return opts

def timestamp ( infile=sys.stdin, outfile=sys.stdout ):
	while True:
		l = infile.readline()
		if not l: break
		outfile.write ( "[%s] %s" % ( datetime.datetime.utcnow().isoformat ...

I've been helping a newly-found friend, Kazerad, supply some pretty decent Javascript-based animation for his site Prequel, a comic set in the Elder Scrolls: Oblibion usinverse.

Start reading from the first episode, or from my first contribution.

First Post!

Playing around with some Django-based Blog software called "zinnia".. give me a few days and I'll theme this to the rest of the site.

With any luck, I'll post something to this blog on a far more regular basis than my LiveJournal.