The python code completion engine in MonoDevelop is now much faster. It’s was a simple fix and one that I think gets overlooked too often in these “dynamic” days.
Thankfully, python makes it easy to index information based on a fully-qualified name. Everything can basically be represented in package format such as “xml.etree.ElementTree.ElementTree.isinstance”. [...]
I put together a quick walk-through of how to setup the Python add-in for real Python development. You will need a recent check-out of MonoDevelop trunk.
I wrote a python add-in for MonoDevelop last year. Unfortunately, I have a hard time sticking to a single project and therefore it suffered a bit. However, we are getting ready for feature freeze for MonoDevelop 2.2 and so I kicked my ars in gear to fix a few things.
Namely, the code completion [...]
Plenty of desktop applications have extension frameworks so that users may extend functionality for their own purposes. However, many seem to invent their own plug-in system or use a framework tied to the applications source code language. For example, there is pkg_resources for python and Mono.Addins for mono. Both are great tools [...]
When I read that the Liferea hackers were considering doing a rewrite, I jumped at the opportunity to throw together a prototype. I had been dabbling with this in python for the last year or so anyway, solving interesting problems with storing lots of data while keeping memory usage light.
I also wanted a project [...]
So my previous posts weren’t without reason, I’ve been quietly working on another project as my Xmas/NewYears gift to the world. It’s not completed yet, but I’m not convinced software ever can be. Therefore, I’m sharing what’s available.
Adroit is a personal task management application aimed at information dissemination. The primary concept of [...]
Over the vacation, I’ve been hacking on a few different projects, mostly Mono related this time. I’ve updated Joshua Tauber’s BDB wrapper from 4.3 to 4.6. It has many hacks to make DB_RECNO databases more friendly. If you truly are interested in using it with 4.6, I suggest you diff the two [...]
Development on my python addin for monodevelop has gone so quickly that I’ve gotten pretty excited about working on it. It has come from realization to working code in just a few short days. So I thought I’d put together a little overview of what I have added this week and where I’d [...]
Back in February, while at Brainshare, I started putting together python support for monodevelop. It was just basic project file support and a compiler. After Eric mentioned to me that we aren’t running enough of our own software every day, I figured I should make this something I can use.
Therefore, I added a [...]
I’ll be in Portland, OR from the 20th through the 25th for this years OSCON. Looking forward to seeing quite a few familiar faces again this year!
Please drop me a note or comment if you are going to be in the area!
