I have updated the py3progress site. I really should automate it sometime, since the last update was in September.
Since the whole of 2013 is now up, I think we should review what happened.
So the first thing that jumps out at me is there is less red and more green. That's great! Concretely, the percentage of the top 200 that supports Python 3 has gone from …
One of the issues developing in Python is keeping a track of security updates of dependencies, such as libraries. While I could subsrcibe to every mailing list and check all the websites regularly, that is a lot of work.
Most packages in the Python environment are released on PyPI, also known as the Cheese Shop. This site lists over 33,000 packages. Handily, PyPI provides a API to query what …
Begg Digital is proud to annouce that Classie has launched.
Classie (www.getclassie.com) is a dance studio management web application. It makes taking attendance simple and saves money sending notcies. The app is designed to work on mobile phones, tablets and desktop browsers so it can be used anywhere, avoiding pieces of paper and entering data later.
Begg Digital manages the hosting for Classie. Lee, owner of Begg Digital, is also …
This weekend I took part in the International Space App Challenge. It is an event (not too dissimilar from Startup Weekend) where teams come together to solve challeges relating to space. the challenge range from hardware to software and visualisation and chicken farms to Mars.
I undertook the bootstrapping lunar industry challenge, also known as #Moonville for being a game for planning how to get private industry on the …
Over the weekend I published Py3 Progress site. I had been meaning to make the data available and now finally I have. It didn't take much.
The Py3 Progress site has a "waterfall" plot of the Python 3 port status of the top 200 downloads from the Python Package Index. The raw data was downloaded from the Python 3 Wall of Superpowers every day, and then acculated into the waterfall …