New Year’s Python meme
Hmmn, better late than never, ‘eh?
- What’s the coolest Python application, framework or library you have discovered in 2009 ?
pygame – I’ve used it for ages, but I rediscovered it this year for a new use. Now-a-days I use it for processing images (creating batches of icons, creating texture atlases, etc) - What new programming technique did you learn in 2009?
I’ve used databases for _ages_ in web development. This year a friend suggested I could use databases to store data for games and 1. avoid recompiling 2. avoid parsing 3. use a nice database frontend to manage it. I’ve only experimented with it briefly, but it seems like a pretty keen technique 🙂 - What’s the name of the open source project you contributed the most in 2009? What did you do?
I was a bit of an open-source waste-of-space this year. But in the last two weeks of the year I began doing work on my tinypyC++ converter. So far I’ve used it to put one game on the App Store. - What was the Python blog or website you read the most in 2009?
Planet Python. Thanks everyone 🙂 - What are the three top things you want to learn in 2010 ?
How to do game PR. How to present at conferences. How to not go crazy.
Over the course of 2009 I used python much less than in 2005-2008. This year (with the help of tinypyC++) I hope to be using (something like) python again. C++ just isn’t nearly as fun! I don’t plan on attending PyCon this year, though I wish I could. There’s just a limit to how many conferences I can attend. If anyone is at GDC, catch up with me! I’ll be speaking at the iPhone Summit about multi-player network testing. I always gotta thank the python community for introducing me to the magic of testing. It’s what makes network code and mad projects like tinypy possible.
-Phil