http://bigbadcode.com Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos Wed, 22 Oct 2008 17:18:55 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A coworker recently needed to iterate over a custom object in python. It's pretty easy to do, you just need to implement the __iter__ method on your object. Here's some example code that shows you how to extend your object, returning everything in your objects local dictionary: class IterableObject(object): ... http://bigbadcode.com/2008/10/22/iterating-over-a-custom-object-in-python/ I've built a proof of concept in some hacked together python code to automatically add movies to my netflix queue when I send twitter messages to @flixbot. For example this tweet: Gets Blade into my queue. Awesome. I started building this out into a full fledged service so other people can use it ... http://bigbadcode.com/2008/10/20/flixbot/ I've been pretty heavily immersed in Apple Objective-C world lately and wanted to put down some of the things that I've learned. I'm going to post a little something when ever I find a few moments. Here's the first: It's easier when someone else worries about memory management. That being said, it's ... http://bigbadcode.com/2008/10/13/iphone-sdk-cocoa-objective-c-learnings/ What the hell is Ad-Hoc Social Network Gaming? Let me explain it to you in video form: One of the first in a series of What's Poppin' from frogdesign. http://bigbadcode.com/2008/07/28/ad-hoc-social-network-gaming/ I'm changing my online world around a bit to better handle the content that I'm spreading around the internets. This place (bigbadcode.com) will henceforth be used for what I'm going to term content pieces. Posts about some programming trick or implementation details. Perhaps interviews or video pieces and of course bragging ... http://bigbadcode.com/2008/07/24/updates-and-changes/ It's posted over at Instructables.com Learn how to make this: http://bigbadcode.com/2008/07/06/check-out-my-instructable-on-glass-table-etching/ Seriously this guy is amazing, scientist, inventor, all around awesome. Didn't we see this technology in the original star wars when they rebuilt Luke's hand? http://bigbadcode.com/2008/07/02/dean-kamen-tony-stark/ Will the dogs eat it? http://bigbadcode.com/2008/05/09/couch-number-3/ Yet more proof of his awesomeness. http://hackety.org/2008/05/05/sneakingRubyThroughGoogleAppEngine.html Basically he's shown a proof of converting Ruby bytecode into Python bytecode, enabling ruby to run in python only places, like Google app-engine. Quite cool. Additionally he's been creating hackety-hack which is an environment for anyone (children) to learn programming. _why's built it out of ruby ... http://bigbadcode.com/2008/05/07/_why-the-lucky-stiff-is-awesome/ The AIR Application that I built for Disney and presented at Adobe's MAX2007 is still generating some buzz. I  was quoted discussing the new capabilities of AIR by Computer Arts UK. Read the full article at http://www.computerarts.co.uk/in_depth/features/rich_internet_apps__design_and_development Or you can see just the important part where I am quoted. “AIR allows for ... http://bigbadcode.com/2008/04/21/quoted-at-computerartscouk/