J-Space.dk

I’ve recently come to realize that my understanding of individuals with no Y chromosomes is quite lackluster. None the less, I’ve moved a bit onwards on the out-of-work small project I’ve had small stuff to do with. I bit the bullet and learned a bit about wxGlade. It does have some excellent features, but I still consider it a first-step GUI design tool, where a lot of simple touch-ups must happen afterwards. Blending in MySQLdb (the best choice in Python-based MySQL connectors I could readily find) I’ve got the libraries I need for this project. I’m not in Kansas, anymore. This isn’t a simple “create an Access form and plot in a few thousand lines of code” affair. It’s learning all over again, module documentation, class references and every now and then some new language construct. I understand why programmers may choose to cling to a limited selection of languages when working, to stay sharp.

It’s a journey, it’s definitely a journey. But Python was probably the best route, given my budget (none), my experience (sufficiently close to none to be none) and my dedication (… do you even need to ask?). I like the language, especially for small-time script development. People would argue (and, fuck, I’d agree) that when working in Linux I might as well do some shell scripting. Yeah, whichever suits the point, yeah?

Anyway, nothing exceptionally happening, but I’ll try to keep some updates up on the progress of the sub-project. With some luck it can be generalised sufficiently to provide a simple data collection utility programmed in Python. We’ll see