Flash on CentOS 5.x

Finally got flash to work on CentOS 5. Apparently the dependencies were a bit messed up for the package, so a few things had to be installed manually. For details, check out this webpage.

I still remember

Electric Gypsy

GUI programming with Matplotlib, Tkinter and threads

This is probably old hat for most python programmers, but it just never became important enough for me until now. I'm currently writing a script for calculating A WHOLE BUNCH of radiative transfer models, and needed a way to visualize my results right away so I could tune my experiment at run-time. (For those who have some idea on model calculations, I'm searching a HUGE parameter space, and needed some quick-n-dirty methods to find my way around)

Eventually I ended up building a GUI frontend using Tkinter (because it's available with all Python distributions) and Matplotlib. Naturally I also had to figure out how threading is used in Python. Check out my Matplotlib wiki page for some recipes.

Covariant derivatives, contravariant tensors, affine connections... argh!

All the posts on MathWorld (here, here and others) written with fancy symbol generation and truckload of ads weren't as much help as the single article on MathPages written in plain HTML with goofed up inline symbols (and no ads!).

But I know what I really need is a good textbook.

Have I given in?

IronPython

Wheels

Very country-ish for what you usually expect from the Foo Fighters, but I love this song!