As with everything in Boost::Python, it might not always be obvious how to best extract certain types to C++ One thing to remember is that most (if not all) C++ types are supported by boost::python::extract So, to extract a std::string object from python, it’s best to use the extract function again: std::string tmp; tmp = [...]

Intro I have made a script to convert a flash shape to svg (the easy way). I hope it converts all flash shapes, because the shape I needed it for only contained “moveTo“, “splineTo” and “lineTo” functions. Requirement This script requires a dump from swftools‘ swfdump: swfdump -D test.swf > test.dump The script # Copyright [...]

Simple cron script to check the status of some init.d daemon/script and restart it if necessary, shown in the example with postgresql, but should work with about any init.d script. #!/bin/sh SCRIPT=postgresql /etc/init.d/$SCRIPT status if [ "$?" != "0" ]; then /etc/init.d/$SCRIPT start fi

My internship: Global search @ ugent.be Lagging a bit behind, I’m going to describe my internship. In a nutshell, my internship is about search, a whole lot of search. Since the portal site of the university at Ghent (http://www.ugent.be) is moving to and running Plone as its main CMS and a whole lot of data [...]

The 6th day is already nearly finished, and I haven’t really posted anything about it yet :o So, as the title says I’ll be (have been) working on pySM and the archer startpage Startpage The startpage is now finally finished for as far as I wanted it. However, it’s possible that I’ll be adjusting the [...]

So, theme days… Lots of themes I forgot to post (more like I didn’t really have the time) Theme for day 3 So, day 3 was another cleaning day. It wasn’t really intended to be a cleaning day, but since my mom really wanted to get my desk out of the house and replace it [...]

More specifically, I’m going to clean my desk. It really needs cleaning, saying it’s a dump would be an understatement! I’m all set op for some hours of cleaning. Music loud enough (but not too loud, wouldn’t want to have police at my door…) After cleaning (perhaps in between, when I get sick of it) [...]

As it is vacation for me (great, great vacation) and I have a lot of stuff to catch up to (mostly school stuff), I’m going to change my life by doing some theme days. The idea is simple: Every day will have a theme. In which I try to do as much as possible around [...]

This is a call to everyone out there! As it is, software patents are limiting the development (and quite honestly, all patents in my eyes, but that’s another issue…) Innovation is being blocked, every open source project will eventually have some patent infrigements out there. Therefore, stop the eu software patents, it’s innovations only hope [...]

And, yes, undoubtedly, I’m going to fosdem next year (2009). Therefore, the next banner will be present on the website during all that time. Be there, or stop visiting codercpf.be!