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A Letter to King Larry

Posted on Monday 18 April 2011 by J. D. Bartlett

Mr J. D. Bartlett, To His Royal Highness King Larry, by the grace of God, King of Google, Lord High Executioner of Blogger, Emperor of YouTube and his other domains. Monday 18 April 2011   Your Royal Highness, First of … Continue reading →

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Python Window Manager, Now With Twisted

Posted on Monday 4 April 2011 by J. D. Bartlett

And Now for the Big Event Loop Last week I wrote about how to create a window manager in Python and posted code for a simple example window manager. The example I posted was about 260 lines long including comments. … Continue reading →

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How to Write a Window Manager in Python

Posted on Monday 28 March 2011 by J. D. Bartlett

Window Manager of Your Dreams I wrote a few months ago about a bunch of different window managers which I’d investigated. In this post, I’ll present the source code for a new, very basic, window manager written entirely in Python. … Continue reading →

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tmux: Almost What I Want

Posted on Monday 28 February 2011 by J. D. Bartlett

I’ve spent a few hours playing around with tmux, which is a neat replacement for GNU screen. My conclusion: tmux is really neat, but it’s not quite what I want. A bit about tmux Tmux does pretty much everything that … Continue reading →

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Inline Deferreds in Twisted (Without Yield)

Posted on Monday 21 February 2011 by J. D. Bartlett

Introduction By buffer of new stuff to blog about is getting low, so today I bring you something I played with a bit last year. After being introduced to Twisted‘s inlineDeferred decorator, I decided to have some fun with that … Continue reading →

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