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Open position at Nokia in Austin, TX for a Python/Java developer
For all the Pythonistas, there’s a publicly-listed position open at Nokia’s Austin, TX office: Software Engineer: The Software Engineering position will be responsible for development of software analysis tools within an Integrated Development Environment. The candidate will be required to … Continue reading
PyS60 3.1.11 released
Python for S60 version 3.1.11 was released today! More details can be found on the PyS60 Discussion Board, and the installers and source can be downloaded from the PyS60 project on SourceForge.
Austin Python User Group moving
FYI, for any Python fans in Austin… The Austin Python User Group has moved off Meetup.com and back to the scipy-hosted mailing list. Meetings will now be organized using the APUG wiki page at: http://wiki.python.org/moin/AustinPythonUserGroup
Ruby for Symbian
This isn’t a Nokia project, but a friend pointed me to Ruby for Symbian today: “Ruby for Symbian is [...] the Ruby interpreter built for Symbian OS. Though the Series 60 devices are the main focus, more Symbian platforms could … Continue reading
PyS60 in Africa
I’ve heard from a number of University groups doing work with Python for S60 (PyS60), but the Entrepreneurial Programming and Research on Mobiles program though the University of Nairobi and MIT is perhaps the most inspiring. The program’s first course, … Continue reading
More PyS60 goodies
Just a couple quick links for today: The Official Python for S60 Wiki has launched! “Mobile Multimedia Mashups” — Oren (Nokia multimedia guru) has posted some PyS60 source code (and screenshots) of a demo application he wrote for accessing Audioscrobbler … Continue reading
FireBug and JavaScript debugging
I finally got around to watching the video of Joe Hewitt’s FireBug demonstration at Yahoo! The video production is a little annoying, but the content is worth it. I’ve been using FireBug already for basic XMLHttpRequest monitoring, but I didn’t … Continue reading
Python for S60 3rd Edition… finally
It’s finally out. See Jukka’s post: “Python for S60 3rd Edition” on the discussion boards!
The PaperKeyboard project
Found another mobile-python hacking gem: The PaperKeyboard project is attempting to use an S60 phone’s camera to recognize character input on a printed, paper keyboard. The project includes proof-of-concept code using Python for S60. The author has opened a discussion … Continue reading
“How To Use Python In Maemo”
There’s now a lengthy “How To Use Python In Maemo” tutorial on maemo.org that’s worth checking out.
Austin Python Meetup, June 8th 2006
The next Austin Python Meetup is happening June 8th! I’ll be there talking about Python as a language for mobile application development, specifically looking at and demoing Python for S60. My presentation isn’t finished yet, so any ideas or suggestions … Continue reading
Mobile bittorrent
David Hulbert has started coding a mobile BitTorrent client for S60 called WizBit using Nokia’s Python for S60. His project blog has more detail. And if you want to install Python on your S60 mobile phone but don’t know which … Continue reading
Apache and mod_python for S60
Nokia Research Center (NRC) has published a port of Apache for S60 which includes mod_python built for Python for S60. Once installed, you can run Apache on your phone and serve Python-based web applications that utilize the full (non-GUI) API … Continue reading
Massive download spike of PyS60
Anyone know what might have caused a massive spike in downloads of PyS60 for 1st Edition devices on April 25th and 26th? We normally see around 100 downloads per day, but those two days saw 35,000 downloads total! The SourceForge … Continue reading
Austin Python Meetup
I went to my first Austin Python Meetup last night! It was great to meet some local Python enthusiasts, and the presentation on Chaco, a Python plotting toolkit, was very educational. The meetup was at Enthought‘s downtown office — a … Continue reading
PyS60 bug tracking moved to SourceForge
Jukka has migrated the bug database for the Python for S60 1.3.1 release to the project’s Bug Tracker on SourceForge. There’s also a good post on the discussion boards about the move and why the source code is downloadable, but … Continue reading
Preferans, PyDict, and s60-compat for PyS60
Some of this will be more useful for those Russian-speaking Python hackers out there, but http://amigo12.boom.ru/ (English) has some excellent examples of robust and unique mobile applications written with Python for S60: Preferans card game on Python for S60: Python … Continue reading
NewsForge: Nokia releases Python for S60 source code
There’s a new NewsForge article up about Python for S60 with a few quotes from yours’ truly: “Nokia releases Python for S60 source code.” I chatted with Mr. Feller on the phone a couple weeks ago while he was prepping … Continue reading
PyCon 2006 Summary
Wi-fi connectivity at PyCon 2006 was a little sketchy, so I (obviously) wasn’t making regular posts. Add busy evening schedules and an immediate flight out to Finland and it’s now taken almost a week to post about the conference. I … Continue reading
Python for S60 making the news with GvR and AllAboutSymbian
Python for S60 is making the news again! Guido van Rossum now has a Nokia phone to run PyS60 on: “Too Much Fun with Python on Nokia Phone“ Steve Litchfield, of All About Symbian, has posted a review: “Nokia Python’s … Continue reading