X Rebirth 4.0 Demo

X Rebirth just got an update and a new DLC: http://forum.egosoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=387349

And a demo.
And now fully support for Linux and Mac.

[Python] From Threads to ThreadPool to Gevent

A system test I wrote does many requests on a local server. The responses take from some to many seconds to arrive. IO-bound. I thought I should use threads for each request. All requests could start at the same time and when the results are in they could be evaluated. 

It worked. Lots of threads were created, did their work and died.

To many threads - one would say.

A threadpool should be a better way...

[Python+IPDB]

Tried to debug my code by inserting this line:

 import ipdb; ipdb.set_trace()

Got an error like this:

/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py:2707: AttributeError

 E           AttributeError: _dep_map

[PHP+GDB] Debugging in PHP Part 2

I found a little thing called Pyclewn which is "A Vim front-end to the gdb and pdb debuggers." With a good configured Vim it is for me much easier and nicer to debug then with plain gdb.

[PHP+GDB] Debugging in PHP

Writing a server in Python that does SOAP and WSDL a simple PHP-client should be able to do requests. The WSDL is selfmade-generated in version 1.1. The analyzer on wsdl-analyzer.com is telling me that everything is OK. In fact I already have 3 clients in Python running, using SOAPpy, suds (jurko-edition) and twisted.web.soap (which is using SOAPpy). 

And 2 in PHP, one using pear SOAP and the other using the internal PHP SOAP.

More Mice Stuff

My good old Logitech MouseMan Dual Optical got some problems. Pushing buttons yields in no-click, single-click or double-click. It is a typical long time use wearout. 

[Blender] Verpixeln & Verwischen von Dingen in Videos

Ich habe eine Anfrage bekommen, wie man Gesichert wegen Datenschutz in Videos unkenntlich macht. Mit dem eingesetzte Editor "Movie Maker" ist dies nicht so schön zu erledigen. Mit Blender geht das jedoch deutlich besser.